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

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 04:17 2022-04-27, Seth Deegan đã viết:
>      > On Wed, 27 Apr 2022  1:13 +02:00, Frederik Ramm
>     <frederik at remote.org <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>  > 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.

The Translate extension already has a built-in safeguard against 
applying the system arbitrarily. An ordinary user is only allowed to 
request making a page translatable, by surrounding the translatable 
content in a <translate> tag, which has no immediate effect. It's up to 
a translation administrator to actually mark the page for translation 
and split the page up into translation units. [1]

Translation administrator is a distinct user group in MediaWiki. The 
revised proposal should describe how we want to assign this right to 
users. Should it be a subset or superset of the administrator group? 
Should we choose translation administrators from a broad selection of 
active languages? Existing deployments have policy pages that could 
serve as a starting point. [2]

Between this proposal and the periodic difficulties in upgrading 
MediaWiki, I wonder if it would be feasible to stand up a public 
MediaWiki instance with a configuration based on the OSM Wiki's. Then we 
could stage extensions or major MediaWiki upgrades there and allow users 
to try out the changes for a fixed amount of time before deployment. I 
recognize that a test wiki would be additional overhead for the 
operations team, but maybe the dev server would be a good home for this 
kind of thing, alongside the OSM API and Rails port.

[1] 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example#Step_2:_Preparation
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Translation_administrators

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