Re after some delay:
Casey Brown <lists <at> caseybrown.org> writes:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tgr<gtisza <at> gmail.com> wrote:
It is a waste of translators' time to translate the SecurePoll admin interface to dozens of languages, which is what most of the voting-related translation requests (including this one) are about. Only a handful of people have access to that interface, and it is quite unlikely that any one of them doesn't understand English. It would be nice if the voter and admin interface of SecurePolls could be split into separate translation groups.
Usually I'd agree with you, except that we're translating the MediaWiki extension on betawiki so that it can be used on all MediaWiki installations. I'm sure there's a Hungarian wiki (for example the Hungarian chapter) out there that might want to use this extension, and just imagine how happy they'd be when they realize it's already been translated by a nice person!
Translator time is a very scarce resource, in Hungarian about half of the requests are never done, and I doubt it's very different for the other smaller languages. So it is not a good idea to mix in maybe-useful-but-unimportant requests; if we have to choose whether the admin interface or one more candidate summary should display in the local language, the latter is far more preferable.