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

[Andy Allan]

> 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.

I mostly find this annoying when developing, but I remind myself that it would be the same if I was a native French developer and was trying to update the en.yml sources and not seeing the updates.

The main problems with sparse translations on Translatewiki include the minimum percentage of translated strings, before the translation becomes valid. For en-GB I think the threshold might not be met if only the strings that differ are counted. But in any case, if the translators only translated the ones that differed, they'd face a constant list of thousands of "untranslated" strings, and have to pick through them over and over, searching for any that genuinely differed. So I don't blame them for copy+pasting where they match.

As far as I can see there's only three problems for en-GB speakers:
* Some dodgy en-GB translations from translatewiki contributors. The use of "E-mail" (with hyphen) seems archaic to me! But dodgy translations are found in all our languages, so this isn't unique to en-GB
* Outdated en-GB translations in production. This is most noticeable where the en.yml has https links but the en-GB.yml still has http. Again, not exclusive to en-GB
* Local development for en-GB speakers. Admittedly this is a high proportion of the maintainers right now :smile: But I can live with it.

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