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

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 23:49 2022-04-26, Amanda McCann đã viết:
> 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

What would stop someone from introducing pseudolocalizations today? Once 
upon a time, a user decided it would be appropriate to create localized 
versions of several category pages in every language known to the ISO, 
so that they could justify adding every language to the language bar at 
the top of every page on the wiki. We're still cleaning up after that mess.

You have a point that maybe some safeguards are worth considering. 
Banning a user is an extreme step, so do you think the processes 
outlined in the proposal would prevent an overzealous individual from 
escalating things to that point? I think this would be useful feedback 
to the proposer.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us