https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44328
Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> changed:
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--- Comment #14 from Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> ---
From the perspective of the reader of a translated page, it almost always much
more preferable to see the outdated translation (clearly marked as such, of
course), than displaying the untranslated text without any indication that an
outdated translation is available. At least in the use cases I'm familiar with.
On Meta, this change made FuzzyBot remove large swathes of carefully translated
text from the readers' view. For example, here because of a missing wikilink in
one case and a typo in one number in the other:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/FuzzyBot&offset=20130430101100&limit=16&target=FuzzyBot
. And I'm not optimistic that these translations will be restored soon in a
manual cleanup - it appears that Nemo's repeated call on Translators-l for
volunteers to participate in this work has not met with enough resonance.
I am not familiar with the HTML/CSS formatting problem on Wikidata which
appears to form the rationale for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52215/ ,
but was its solution really worth all those detrimental effects on readers and
the extra work required from translation volunteers? This is a deeply
unsatisfactory situation.
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