2015-10-29 10:47 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle@gmail.com:
Hi,
Going into rant mode...
It's been at least 6 months that CX (Content Translation) has been deployed on production wikis, and after all this time, most of the articles created with this tool contain many syntax problems. Phabricator tasks have been created months ago, and almost nothing seems to be done to fix this.
So, is there any plan to deactivate CX until major bugs are fixed (to stop the creation of damaged articles) or any plan to fix the bugs quickly ? I tried posting on the talk page for CX with this kind of questions months ago : the answer was that the bug were almost fixed. Several months after that : same situation, bugs still here, even with some new ones...
Examples by taking the last 5 CX edits on frwiki :
- David Borwein
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Borwein&action=edit&oldid=119968179 : almost no problems, but because the editor translated only one sentence, the article is otherwise completely in English. Even with no edits, basic problem of templates called with the {{Modèle:...}} prefix (equivalent to {{Template:...) in English)
Nicolas, AFAIK this does not happen by default. The user must click on the paragraph to have it moved to the translation. So this is hardly a CX issue.
Can't comment on the rest of the issues, but I can add one more: I've had several reports for ro.wp of "lost" translations. Unfortunately I don't have enough data to log a bug. They just said: "my translations were lost". Perhaps some performance issues with the server or some patchy Internet connections and not enough caching?
Strainu
- Grande Riviere
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grande_Riviere&action=edit&oldid=119965431 : many problems : template prefix, nowiki tags in bad places, several references with the same name and the same content duplicated (the goal of the name is to have the content once, not in every reference), whitespace included at the end of internal links (reason for some nowiki tags), coordinates so badly handled that it results in several lines of span tags and complex code
- Jozef Gregor-Tajovsky
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jozef_Gregor-Tajovsk%C3%BD&action=edit&oldid=119961320 : less than 500 bytes, but with stub category added directly instead of the templates that should add them
- Silva Semadeni
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silva_Semadeni&action=edit&oldid=119959038 : trailing punctuation included in internal links, unnecessary div tags, internal links with only nowiki tags as the displayed text (so invisible links), unnecessary span tags, preceding whitespace included in internal links
- David Steel
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Steel&action=edit&oldid=119957633 : almost empty, but with internal CX data added
5 articles checked, not one correct.
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