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

[Seth Deegan]

 Mateusz, I responded to this above:

> Note that process of enabling this extension involves deletion of
existing pages
in languages other than English.

This is false. It involves *archiving *them. Please see Conversion of
Typical Pages
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Add_Translate_extension_to_Wiki#Typical_pages>
.

lectrician1 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1>

El sáb, 30 abr 2022 a la(s) 09:42, Seth Deegan (jayandseth at gmail.com)
escribió:

> Mateusz, I responded to this above:
>
> > Note that process of enabling this extension involves deletion of
> existing pages
> in languages other than English.
>
> This is false. It involves *archiving *them. Please see Conversion of
> Typical Pages
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Add_Translate_extension_to_Wiki#Typical_pages>
> .
>
> lectrician1 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1>
>
> El vie, 29 abr 2022 a la(s) 14:15, Mateusz Konieczny via talk (
> talk at openstreetmap.org) escribió:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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