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)
- 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.
Nico