Commons:Categories for discussion/2014/01/Category:User BG

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Category:User BG

Reasons for discussion request: cf. Commons_talk:Babel#Extension:Babel, broken since 2014-01-07, when this category was erroneously created. The category is populated by {{#babel:...|bg-X|...}} instead of Category:User bg. –Be..anyone (talk) 16:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean to say that deleting this category would fix this problem? --rimshot^talk 22:45, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno, I can only say that {{#babel:User BG-n}} does not more work since it was created. The bug could be elsewhere, and just happened to create the bogus upper case categories. –Be..anyone (talk) 00:39, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The first user contained in this category that I checked had a babel box with {{#babel:en-N|fr-1|es-0|BG-0|ANI-0|VG-0‎|PH-1}}. I think BG means Bitmap Graphics in this case, not Bulgarian (compare with VG for Vector Graphics). Might the babel template need to be extended to support this ability too? --rimshot^talk 23:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On the template side {{Babel|BG-1|tlh-0}} (example) works as always and as it should, i.e., nothing is wrong with {{User BG-1}}, {{User tlh-0}}, etc. On the extension side #babel:tlh-0 always ignored the existing template using its own English text instead of Klingon. The extension got BG-1 always right until January, 6. One day later the bogus category was created, and BG-1&Co. failed. You can see the working templates on {{User/Language2}} and {{User/Abilities}}. –Be..anyone (talk) 07:43, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As a test, I have deleted the page. It was instantly re-created by User:Babel AutoCreate and the user boxes still didn't work correctly. --rimshot^talk 21:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the category appears to be less populated now, as it was in January after this oddity started. Mostly folks like McZusatz, where I guess that they want BG-n for bitmap graphics, not bulgarian. –Be..anyone (talk) 07:48, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The same is the case with Category:User AF which is Afrikaans (Category:User af) versus Category:Audio file editors with its subcategories AF-0, AF-1, AF-2, AF-3. There the software puts the Afrikaans template onto the user page, when someone puts these into the babel extension. These categories have to be deleted, but before that, the user pages have to be fixed. --October wind (talk) 00:13, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your ad hoc warning boxes on the category pages, somehow I missed that this is now supposed to be a "documented bug" also known as "feature".

–Be..anyone (talk) 18:29, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Be..anyone, Rimshot, and October wind: Three years later, there are still items in these categories. Do we still want to delete? - Themightyquill (talk) 09:20, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, this is a category for users with bitmap graphics capabilities. If the babel extension is buggy, open a bug entry at Bugzilla. --rimshot^talk 22:04, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Rimshot: Are you sure? There is only one user in this category and BG is for Bulgarian language on their user page. This category is a sub of Category:User bg (the Bulgarian language cat) and has nothing to do with bitmap graphics at this point. It appears we should merge it into Category:User bg. Josh (talk) 23:04, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's not surprising that the category isn't used to indicate Bitmap Graphics ability when a bug has prevented it from doing exactly that for several years. In its current state, I agree that it can be upmerged. --rimshot^talk 20:37, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category is now empty. If in the future, the extension is fixed to use this category correctly, it can be re-created. Josh (talk) 22:28, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]