Hi Philippe, many thanks.
Do you mean e.g. on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Inhalts%C3%BCbersetzung ? I don't see a yellow box? There is "Von einer beliebigen Sprache / In eine beliebige Sprache", but that lists English/German in both. In any case - are you basically saying that English <-> German could be enabled? Many thanks! Bjoern On 16 April 2017 at 21:38, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > This is displayed in the top header (yellow box) which lsits the > "proiritized" languages. Anyway there's another setting (not displayed) > that disallow other translations (this was discussed recently when someone > created a page to translate ONLY in minority languages, exclusing all other > major languages than the source English). > > Experience shows that (espacially for minory languages that very few > translators available, many of them not being very fluent in English) we > need to always enable other languages thant English to help disambiguate > the English source so that translators for minority languages can see > translations proposed in other major languages and that are better > reviewed, in order to provide better translations not just based on the > English source but also on what they can better read and understand in > another language. > > I must confess that I see no reason to exclude any language (except old > compatibility languages whose use is no longer recommanded, and which may > be configured globally, only if there's other choices of language codes: > those compatibility codes will finally be redirected to new ones or locked > down). > > And for the ~15 major languages of the world (that are used as lingua > francas for regional or national interchanges) they should never be > disabled (notably because they are already used as fallback languages for > missing translations in minority languages). For a list of fallback > languages (that should never be disabled), see for example what is > implemented in Commons and MetaWiki; this is more than just English which > is only the last-chance fallback ! The list of fallbacks was first > implemtend as templates ,then as modules, and now as part of global wiki > configuration (and part now of MediaWiki itself with its API). > > > 2017-04-16 13:15 GMT+02:00 Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]>: > >> Thanks! How do I find out which language pairs are enabled? >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > >
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