Re: Restarting W3C Volunteer Translation Tracking

Hi Jens,

Le 30/10/2018 à 22:16, Jens Oliver Meiert a écrit :
>> I believe there are some options. For a better overview and an option
>> to collaborate I’ve sketched them in
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OqVOxwbuhFVwVVXpJcENIvI22BU_ZL1u6_VKO_dvk5M/edit.
> 
> Is this a model that could work, too?

I guess my main overall comment is that approach #1-#3 is basically what
we had before and had enough issues with that it led to us stopping the
program. More specifically:
* we could require all we want from "unreviewed" translations, unless we
make this checked on a regular basis, the marks of "unofficial and
unreviewed" could be removed very easily at any point; and more
systematically, unless we have a reliable system to track changes,
something that was reviewed as OK could easily be replaced by something
that is not. Your notes suggest a tool (or a workflow) could help reduce
that risk, but it's not entirely clear what such a tool would do that
could not be easily defeated by someone intent to abuse the system (and
a manual workflow, given the number of translations, seems hard to keep
affordable)

* the rel-unfollow deterrent was obviously not enough of a deterrent for
many of the abuse we identified over the years

Regarding your "†" note "Reviews could happen on a voluntary basis" -
that's definitely what my thinking of the new program is, in case that
wasn't clear.

Dom

Received on Friday, 9 November 2018 09:30:53 UTC