[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Missing American English localization (Issue #4975)

[Minh Nguyễn]

> I don't think we really have a clear answer to that... It probably should unless we're going to get TW to remap things in a different way but the problem is that the people doing the merges are mostly en-GB speakers who won't notice british spellings.

If this project is open to using en.yml for American English, I’d be happy to proofread it thoroughly and monitor changes to it going forward. I’ve been doing the same thing for years for id-tagging-schema, which has the same challenge. There’s also a #language channel in OSMUS Slack where developers can request proofreading. StreetComplete’s developers take advantage of this channel on a regular basis.

> The en-GB translation is mostly annoying to be honest because it's full of strings which were copied even though they don't actually change which means I often wind up wondering why I'm not seeing a change and it's because I'm seeing the en-GB copy of the string.

Could en-GB.yml be a sparse translation, just the strings that we need to override en.yml? On Translatewiki.net, some projects periodically bulk delete translations that are identical to the source. Then I think the site would fall back to en.yml automatically. If not, config/i18n-tasks.yml could probably backfill the missing translations from en.yml.

Incidentally, you might appreciate this mismatched en-GB string I just fixed in iD (not yet released):

American English | British English
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<img src="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/assets/1231218/6d89cd30-8887-492b-96bc-e9d2daf511f2" width="379" alt="Building has unsquare corners: Buildings with unsquare corners can often be drawn more accurately."> | <img src="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/assets/1231218/44256a8e-25eb-4138-8751-51306efe7b41" width="379" alt="Building has unsquare corners: Its stability, quality, independence, and strength depend on donations from people like you.">



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