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

[Seth Deegan]

> Can we make a rule that the extension should never be forced onto an
existing page without previous engagement?

Yes, I'm thinking about doing this.

El mié, 27 abr 2022 a la(s) 05:19, Minh Nguyen (minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us)
escribió:

> 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.
>
> --
> minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
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