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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 27, 2022, 11:36 by minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us:

> My point is that the technical changes described in the proposal are indeed reversible. The extension is essentially a fancy form that assembles the responses into a standard wiki page with invisible <!-- T:123 --> comments scattered about. So if we were to uninstall the extension, any page that had adopted the extension would remain with exactly the same content. 
> What isn't as easily reversible is that there would probably be more translations than before -- of more content in more languages.
>
Note that process of enabling this extension involves deletion of existing pages
in languages other than English.

So removing extension would require reconstructing translation pages.

> A reversible change of this nature should not require a 75% supermajority. After all, the threshold for *permanently changing the constitution* in many regions is a mere 60-66%. The tagging proposal threshold is so high because it's so hard to clean up an approved tag that later turns out to be a bad idea. Would we demand the same high bar for any technical change to the wiki, or just the ones that trouble certain people at the start of voting?
>
> Regardless, I did not express a preference for a new threshold of 50%. It isn't my call. I just wanted to know if the proposer planned to stick to the 75% precedent they set, or if they would fall back to the "community consensus or at least a majority decision" that another administrator had originally asked for, or something in between.
>
I want to just note that removal of extension should require the same support
as introducing it, especially if it is lowered compared to a typical vote.
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