Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-4142476-20160514181902/@comment-25331127-20160517161956

Yatalu wrote: Yeah Chinese wikias have these buttons that convert the characters too, but unfortunately for translations we have to pick (zh, zh-hant, zh-hans, zh-hk or zh-tw) or we translate them all separately. I don't know if there are any automatic related fallbacks as we have on WLB; it not, a script will need zh-tw defined for zh-tw users (even if zh-tw users would be OK with zh-hant too) or else it will fall back to the default. At least that's how I think it works.

Personally I prefer translating into separate variants (although it takes more spaces), since there have been several content conversion problems on Chinese Wikipedia, not only the Chinese characters, but the word usages as well.

Another issue would be the variant options on non-Chinese wikis. Currently we need to use "?uselang=zh-xx" or click on the flag icon (on WLB) to view different variants. Is it possible to configure language code in a third-party way (using user subpage, e.g. "User:Wikia/LangConfig" with content "zh-hant"), and implement the setting via MediaWiki, so it would automatically link to "?uselang=zh-xx"?