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project... sadly, you have to verify each one yourself (or through some bot or metric, accepting some errors). For example I use some templates to select articles for my students for various activities, and sigh, we have a lot of false positives (ex. the 'requested image' template, used on talk, is very often left in place in articles that have images - this needs some major cleanup, sigh).
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Basically, if there is not an article name specified, I want there to be a Google translate link generated based on the title in the foreign language at wikidata. (Currently, if no title is specified, no machine translation link is added.) This behavior already exists elsewhere in the template, just trying to add it for the machine translation as well.
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should prevail. So, while I agree with your proposal of how it *ought* to be used, I'm not sure where I stand on the question of whether that should be codified by additional language in the template, and will be interested in what other feedback you get about it. I can see pluses and minuses on both
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Regarding use of translators time: I agree that it is better for them to focus on translating than fixing templates. However, I'm planning for OKA to be a very long-term project and to scale it even further, so I assume we will eventually run out of "Good content" to translate, so I want to explore
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When there are multiple languages, the template says "You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in...". This is wrong, because it refers to multiple articles. In the section of the template code for when more than one language is specified, please replace
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has that level of visibility, and it doesn't argue that the article is deficient in any way, so has a lower bar for inclusion: there is not so much objection to "one editor thinks this article could be improved by expanding it with translations from the Spanish article" as there is to "one editor
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I mostly agree; the issue is that articles are expanded sometimes but the template is not removed. And yes, sometimes it is added when the differences are not major. But like with all other templates, there is no manpower to verify them. If you want to use this or anything other for any serious
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pinging you at your request. My earlier post: " Right now the link for corresponding article has a switch so that it calls Wikidata information where the article is not specified. I would like the same behavior to happen for the creation of the machine translation link at translate.google.com."
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2) Removing noise, so that these maintenance tags can actually be used by the broader community (as Piotr mentioned, it's currently hard to use these tags as a signal, which is unfortunate). There's also the general concern that the community has of paid editors not helping with the "clean up"
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to be considered. The "guidance" offered in most templates is often nothing more than the opinion of the editor who wrote the documentation for the template, subject to the changes to the doc made by other editors, based on their opinions, so you could say that the guidance is based on
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template on top of an article purely because they disagree with the content, and sometimes when they have raised objections on the Talk page that have been roundly rejected, but that is not a legitimate use of those templates, and they may be removed per
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Is there any general guidance as to when it is considered ok to delete this template? If we can align on clear criteria, I could task the translators in my non-profit to go through the full backlog and remove it when required.
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As far as placing the bar high, I would agree with that as well, but it is still quite subjective, and difficult to codify. Some templates are scrutinized more than others; for example, some editors will place a
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Then I will start removing this template on a few pages such as the example I shared, adding a link to that discussion in the edit descriptions, and see if anyone objects to this approach.
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to a question I posed there, regarding a subtask that I believe would be necessary in order to implement your request. I'm still looking around for other methods that might work; perhaps
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I would like to use the "Expand" templates (in various languages) to help identify articles that could benefit from the help of a translator, in the context of our work at the non-profit
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of the template; in those cases the template should be moved to the section in question, and if it is absent, just add the header by itself, and place the template under it with
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One other solution for a similar situation: when you have an empty article section for which you wish to highlight articles in other languages, you could place a
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Yes, there are many. Click on "Wikidata item" on the Template page and scroll down to see links to this template on other languages' Wikipedias. –
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Editors have different preferences for which articles belong where, and so it is very confusing to people trying to go through the categories.
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ended with a strong Keep); where there is some contention is about whether to place the template at the top, or bottom of articles (e.g.,
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To make this template truly useful, I think it would be better if it was only used when the corresponding other-language article is
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activities, so I'm hoping we can increasingly take a role in these maintenance tasks that volunteers don't typically like to do
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Yes, in theory, and Slovenian has the same problem. I think it's better that that bridge be crossed when it happens, though.
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other value-adding activities that translators can do on Knowledge (XXG). Cleaning up these translation tags can help with:
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Do we need to revert the category moves, or can the template be modified to generate categories using "Slovene", please? –
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Are there versions of this template for use in other Wikis, for articles that could be expanded from English?
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on Knowledge (XXG). If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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Regarding your point about the foreign article just being better in one section, see param
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for example, and the design and documentation of those templates have correspondingly
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1) Identifying real cases where the articles would benefit from being expanded
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A lot of articles fit into multiple topic categories. For example:
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Articles about natural disasters could fall into "hist" and "sci".
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Thank you, that resolves the immediate need. But if somebody uses
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Yes, I would support this in principle, but there is also
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Articles about elections could fall into "gov" and "hist".
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Articles about athletes could fall into "bio" and "sport".
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is still looking for the old category name with diacritic
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Template-protected edit request on 13 September 2024
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