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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 28, 2022, 18:05 by minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us:

> Vào lúc 04:44 2022-04-28, Mateusz Konieczny via talk đã viết:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Enabling the extension does not require deleting any pages. Migrating an English page to the Translate system doesn't delete any manual translations either. In fact, the extension comes with a dedicated tool for helping translators migrate a manual translation to the Translate system.
>
So what would happen with existing translations?
Are we getting two translations? Existing page is locked from normal editing?
Something else?
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