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Add link to Developer hub

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Although the Wikimedia Developer Portal is a great entry point for people interested in Wikimedia technical projects in general, this page should also provide a link to the developer documentation specific to MediaWiki. Instead of linking to both Manual:Contents and Developer hub, as this page did previously, I'd suggest linking to just Developer hub since it is more comprehensive and includes a link to Manual:Contents.

Proposed change:

		<h3><span class="header_icon" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation">[[File:OOjs UI icon chem.svg|20px|middle|link=]]</span><span>Develop and extend code</span></h3>
		<div id="mainpage-devs" title="Developers" class="items">
* Read the MediaWiki [[Special:MyLanguage/Developer hub|developer documentation]]
* Visit the [https://developer.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Developer Portal]

APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 19:33, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good to me AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 20:20, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

IIUC, this is what was wanted? https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMain_page&diff=5712915&oldid=5301280&diffmode=source

(I boldly edited, as the page is fully-protected, and APaskulin is not currently an admin. :) ) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:01, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Perfect. Thank you, @Quiddity (WMF)! APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

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Update mainpage to add support for rtl languages on the mainpage

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Hello, currently rtl (right to left) languages display as ltr (left to right) on the main page (See lang=he) Can the changes I have made at MediaWiki/sandbox and Template:Main page/sandbox be implemented so that these languages can display as rtl.

Thanks, Terasail Terasail 17:01, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Ping @Quiddity as they originally asked about this. Terasail 17:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Implemented! It looks like that's fixed it. Thanks again for noticing, researching, and preparing the fixes, both here and at Wikifunctions. –Quiddity (talk) 17:24, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

What is the id="lang_dir" bit for?

Instead of {{{1|{{PAGELANGUAGE}}}}}, you could use {{#invoke:Caller title|lang|base=Template:Main page}} (see Module:Caller title), avoiding the need for passing the language code from MediaWiki. Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:02, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

The id has no real use, it comes from when I copied the solution from the Wikifunctions main page. I personally know nothing about Module:Caller title, if it is a better way of doing things then I support it being used. I just made the edit request with the solution that I had originally found for this problem so that it might stop being a problem. (There are many ways to cook an egg and all that). Terasail 01:57, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

I believe Module:Caller title is better, although I have to add the disclaimer that I’m the original author it (I think I originally authored it on Commons), so it’s not surprising. 🙂 (I seem not to have been attributed on mediawiki.org.) Now MediaWiki tells Template:Main page in which language the latter will appear in, but Template:Main page decides the language it will actually appear in, which can easily lead to inconsistencies. Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:14, 28 October 2023 (UTC)