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Non-translation “translations” on Commons:FAQ/bn

Commons:FAQ/bn is seemingly 99% translated, but in fact many of these “translations” are just copies of the English texts. This causes several issues:

  • Readers who look at the translation percentage think that they can read the page without knowing English, but this isn’t true;
  • Readers using accessibility software like screenreaders don’t get appropriate markup, since the Translate extension thinks these parts of the text are translated;
  • When a part of the text changes in English, it doesn’t get updated on the translation page because the extension thinks the translation, albeit outdated, is still more useful for readers than the English original (which would be true if it really was a translation, but not in this case).

Of course, the best solution would be actually translating those texts, but in case no Bangla speaker volunteers for that, at least the non-translation “translations” should be deleted. To do so, go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Commons%3AFAQ&action=page&language=bn, and for each row where the right (translation) column contains obviously English text:

  • click anywhere on the row;
  • click on the unit name (e.g. Translations:Commons:FAQ/4/bn);
  • click on History;
  • now you’re on the page history of a wiki page, just delete it like any other wiki page. You may want to check the page history first, in case it previously had a proper translation, although none of the few I checked had.

Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @Moheen who created these non-translations. GPSLeo (talk) 16:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know that. But there are always lots of things I have to do. I will shortly translate the remaining. Thanks for notifying me. ~Moheen (keep talking) 17:10, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But why do you copy past the text? When viewing the page there will be the English text anyways if there is no translation. GPSLeo (talk) 17:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly. It’s okay if not the whole page is translated in one go – just don’t touch the translation units you don’t translate. The system is smart enough to put the English text where there is no translation – and even smarter than a human, because it does so in a more accessible way than simply copying and pasting the English text. And at the same time, the statistics are not misleading. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done. Sorry for the inconvenience. ~Moheen (keep talking) 07:34, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New system message for UploadWizard

Hi all! This is a request for interface admins: we're working on a specific message for when users upload medias with a wrong title, that would appear as a pop-up message when clicking on a specific link.

We would like to create a specific system message, maybe called MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-filename-short, that only shows the examples for good and bad names taken from MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-filename. The reason for this is that the full text is too long to be shown in a pop-up, and may cause that the user won't read it.

Is it possible to do so? Thanks in advance. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:30, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to not show the other information in that message, to be honest… do you maybe have some mockups or something similar (perhaps on Phabricator) to see what this would look like? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 15:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mockup of new dialog message for wrong title of UploadWizard
Mockup of new dialog message for wrong title of UploadWizard
@Lucas Werkmeister: hi, sorry for taking this long to answer, on the right you can find the mockup of the potential message. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sannita (WMF): That looks ok, but doesn't mention the parentheses in the background. Will those be accepted? How about other matched delimiters like square brackets, braces, and quotes? Other punctuation?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:05, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. We are only copying the existing examples in MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-filename into the example (maybe not all of them in this mockup, but still this is the idea). Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking about the implementation for a moment – I’m guessing MediaWiki:Titleblacklist would need to gain support for something like |errmsg-short= in addition to |errmsg=? Or do you want to hard-code “|errmsg= + "-short"” as the title of the short message? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:19, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Trademarked

The Russian translation of the template begins as follows: "Это произведение содержит материал, который может быть субъектом законов о товарных знаках в одной или нескольких юрисдикциях". I suggest it amended because 'субъект' denotes 'person' in Russian legal language while trademarks are by no means persons.

Proposed version: "Это произведение содержит материалы, которые могут подпадать под действие законов о товарных знаках в одной или нескольких юрисдикциях". Ur frnd (talk) 09:35, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ur frnd: you can directly edit Template:Trademarked/ru and change it to your proposed version since it's not protected. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, ✓ Done. Ur frnd (talk) 18:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

File:Anatoly Berezin with his son, 1976.jpg

I request to restore this file, because here on the website of the museum: https://mrkm.ru/novosti/k-90-letiyu-anatoliya-ivanovicha-berezina/?sphrase_id=8151. It says that all materials of the website are covered by Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. FlorianH76 (talk) 18:04, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

to get a file undeleted, please file a request at RFU. That is where we process undeletion reqests.
All the best -- Chuck Talk 23:18, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyupload-allowed-domains requests

Hi! Can an admin please take a look to MediaWiki talk:Copyupload-allowed-domains edit requests? There are 6 pending requests since 9th of April. Thanks! vip (talk) 19:30, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with DelReqHandler

I wasn't sure whether to address the problem here or at COM:VPT, but since it's about a script only admins use, I'll ask here.

Simply put, at some point today DelReqHandler stopped working for me, and I don't get any Keep or Delete links on deletion request pages anymore. It was still working yesterday, when I was closing DRs and deleting files. And I don't remember missing the links earlier today when posting new DRs.

At first I thought I had somehow misadjusted my web browser, but I've tried three different web browsers now, also with all extensions disabled, and it still won't work. And yes, I've enabled the gadget, in fact I've disabled and re-enabled it.

Is DelReqHandler still working for everybody else? I noticed that a new MediaWiki Version was deployed to Commons today (COM:VPT#Tech News: 2024-21). Could that be a cause for my problems? --Rosenzweig τ 20:32, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per Special:Version#mw-version-software and mw:MediaWiki 1.43/Roadmap, Mediawiki 1.43.0-wmf.6 was installed at "all non-Wikipedia sites" (that includes Commons) today. --Rosenzweig τ 20:44, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The not / done links from UndelReq (at Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests) are gone too. --Rosenzweig τ 20:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's broken for me as well. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:54, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did some more testing, and apparently something else also mentioned at COM:VPT, mw:Heading HTML changes, is the culprit. My usual skin is Monobook, and after changing that to Vector (2010 or 2022) or MinervaNeue, the links were back. Going back to Monobook, they vanished again. It appears the affected scripts need changes, because the other skins will follow suit with these heading changes. There's a whole thread at phabricator:T13555, but that's too technical for me. --Rosenzweig τ 22:49, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can confirm, broken for me too. Affected is the monobook skin, which I use and prefer, in Vector it works. Don't know if phabricator:T13555 is the correct ticket for this.--Wdwd (talk) 12:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo, wir sind die Firma Werder Feinkost. Wir haben unser Firmenlogo aktualisiert. Ich bitte höflich darum, das alte Logo durch ein neues zum Beispiel das aus dem Anhang oder von unserer Website zu ersetzten.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Ihr Werder Feinkost Team

Werder Feinkost GmbH

Werder Feinkost GmbH (talk) 13:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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