<div dir="ltr">> Can we make a rule that the extension should never be forced onto an<br>existing page without previous engagement?<div><br></div><div>Yes, I'm thinking about doing this.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 27 abr 2022 a la(s) 05:19, Minh Nguyen (<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</a>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Vào lúc 23:49 2022-04-26, Amanda McCann đã viết:<br>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 1:13 +02:00, Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Not a day goes by in OSM without someone "helpfully" doing an import or<br>
>> clicking away on a badly designed task manager task or something else<br>
>> that they believe makes the world a better place and later it turns out<br>
>> they've caused more damage than they did good. I fear that the same<br>
>> could happen to existing pages once the extension is enabled - someone<br>
>> with too much time on their hands decides to make the world a better<br>
>> place by creating Esperanto versions of all pages, and for this first<br>
>> converts all pages to use the new extension, and nobody there to stop<br>
>> them...<br>
> <br>
> For a real world example of this sort of thing happening, look at the Scots language Wikipedia...<br>
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> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia#Pseudo-Scots_controversy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia#Pseudo-Scots_controversy</a><br>
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What would stop someone from introducing pseudolocalizations today? Once <br>
upon a time, a user decided it would be appropriate to create localized <br>
versions of several category pages in every language known to the ISO, <br>
so that they could justify adding every language to the language bar at <br>
the top of every page on the wiki. We're still cleaning up after that mess.<br>
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You have a point that maybe some safeguards are worth considering. <br>
Banning a user is an extreme step, so do you think the processes <br>
outlined in the proposal would prevent an overzealous individual from <br>
escalating things to that point? I think this would be useful feedback <br>
to the proposer.<br>
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