[OSM-talk] Voting for adding the Translate extension to the OSM Wiki now open

[Amanda McCann]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2022  1:13 +02:00, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Not a day goes by in OSM without someone "helpfully" doing an import or 
> clicking away on a badly designed task manager task or something else 
> that they believe makes the world a better place and later it turns out 
> they've caused more damage than they did good. I fear that the same 
> could happen to existing pages once the extension is enabled - someone 
> with too much time on their hands decides to make the world a better 
> place by creating Esperanto versions of all pages, and for this first 
> converts all pages to use the new extension, and nobody there to stop 
> them...

For a real world example of this sort of thing happening, look at the Scots language Wikipedia... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia#Pseudo-Scots_controversy


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Amanda