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Deleted translations on transifex #724

Closed kjonosm closed 4 months ago

kjonosm commented 4 months ago

Lots of translations have recently been deleted on transifex. What was the reason for that? Should these be retranslated?

1ec5 commented 4 months ago

Which language’s translations were deleted? The most recent change to the source strings was two months ago. Is it possible that the translations went away at that point, because they were outdated?

bhousel commented 4 months ago

I was running a script last week and it deleted the translations where the translated string exactly matches the English source string.

kjonosm commented 4 months ago

Hmm...Quite a few of the source strings don't need a translation because they match the original English version, especially when they refer to the name of a community, e.g. OpenStreetMap DE is the same in the English source string and the German translation.

For these cases, some translators (like me 😉) prefer to use the English source string also for the translation to mark a language as completely translated so that whenever a new source string comes up it can quickly be picked up and translated.

So, if possible, please don't mass delete "untranslated" source strings.

bhousel commented 4 months ago

Yes I realized later that some people like to see those numbers say 100% , so I won’t delete the identical translations strings any more.

matheusgomesms commented 3 weeks ago

Sorry, I didn't quite understand. Redundancy in this case is that there is a lot of "OpenStreetMap USA" strings (for example), so just one translation is enough?

I'm not an expert on localization, but perhaps isn't better to fix the source strings, to not have duplicates there?

Also, regarding 100%, we translators use "Not translated" function to translate what is missing. If translations are deleted, it is: 1 - impossible what is duplicated or not 2 - harder to translate what is missing (indeed) or what is duplicate