[OSM-talk] Comments have opened for the proposal to add the Translate extension to OSM Wiki

[Seth Deegan]

The commenting (a.k.a voting) period for the *heavily revised* proposal to Add
the Translate Extension to the OSM Wiki
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Add_Translate_extension_to_Wiki>
is now open.
Description

The Translate extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>
provides a translation user interface, semi-automatic translation,
translation progress, and other features that significantly improve the
process of translating pages compared to the current translation system.

It is a stable and popular extension used on multi-language wikis like
translatewiki.net
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/translatewiki>,
meta.wikimedia.org, mediawiki.org, and wikidata.org.

Usage of this extension for page translation will not be mandatory over the
current system, but rather act as an additional option for translators to
use.

Changes and clarifications since the previous proposal

   - The Visual Editor can now be used
   <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/12/mediawiki-1-38-brings-support-for-editing-translatable-pages-with-the-visual-editor/>
   to edit translatable pages
   - Pages translated using the Translated extension do not have to be 1:1
   translations
   <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Add_Translate_extension_to_Wiki#Translating>.
   In fact, translations can add different content if they want to.
   - There is a new user group that called Translation administrators
   <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Add_Translate_extension_to_Wiki#Translation_administrators>
   that will have the exclusive right of enabling and marking a page for
   translation
   - Users can make a page translatable without requiring inserting
   <translate></translate> tags by using Special:PagePreparation
   <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:PagePreparation> which
   inserts them automatically
   - Addition
   <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Add_Translate_extension_to_Wiki#Community_approval>
   of the extension will not be determined by 75% approval or greater and
   instead consensus

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