I got an notice while creating a page for my project "This site is for documenting the MediaWiki software. It is not the wiki that you set up for your class, workplace, or personal use, nor is it Wikipedia." This is a project that uses chat software to search MediaWiki. Can you help me create a page for it? Thank you very much!
Thanks for pointing that out. It's a big-ish range for ip blocking, but I don't see any useful edits in the entire 5 year editing history of that range (other than translation defuzzing). So blocked for now, but I left the talk page open in case there are concerns.
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Hello! I wanted to deliver issue that is happening with translation of content by DDPAT 2.0 aka DDPAT Knife Series into Ukrainian and Russian. Unfortunately, user is notorious for his machine translatons that in many cases do not have any sense. For instance, diff and diff. He is esspecially bad at translating long and complex sentences. To be fair, he can have some okay-ish small translations from time to time but prior examples just do not let me not to report this situation to the community and admins. On translatewiki, discussion on temporary removal of translation right was started because of the same reason. I, myself, spoke countless times with user via Ukrainian Wiki Discord, trying to persuade him, first of all not to use Google translate and not to translate things he has no clue about but, unfortunately, seems like it does not work. What can be done in this situation? P.S. Note also that, for example, this translation done by user was deleted as low quality one.
I'm sorry, but I don't translate here into Russian. And secondly, translation is allowed to all users here, so why not just correct my translations if there are no major problems with it everywhere? And I also translate what I know more than what I don't understand.
As someone told me, "there is diligence, there is talent, but a little understanding of their language is not quite. So you can write it off as an advantage with a small drawback."
I am forced to support Renvoy in that something has to be done. I would suggest banning the user from translations for a year or so. I did my share of AGF by trying to persuade him to pay more attention to his work, read carefully, not rush, study the subject before making translations and taking his time to practice English elsewhere before publishing translations of twn or here. In discussions on public Discord server he has shown what is, to my mind, utter malunderstanding of the purpose of volunteer translation, saying "who uses dictionaries in 2021?", "why don't you correct translations after me", "don't tell me you're lazy to correct me, someone else will", "if translators to Russian demand that I stop, I will" etc. I believe that giving the user free time to study English with a teacher now would be useful for their future work.
Ok, I've blocked User:DDPAT 2.0 for editing translations for 3 months.
Some browsers, specially Google Chrome and derivatives, come with automatic translation tools. If a page is not translated, such browsers will translate the text on the fly. Basically, there's no need to fill the translation with machine translations, because people that really want to translate things will see those pages as already translated when they aren't, and will be left with incorrect translations. On the other hand, such machine translations can be confusing and misleading.
I consider sufficient warnings have been made to the user, with suggestions to skip translations where the user is not comfortable enough with the meaning of the text or how to translate it, but the user decided to ignore them.
Let's see if after that time DDPAT 2.0 reconsiders those suggestions or continues to create problematic translations.
@Ciencia Al Poder I apologize. And if I can talk to the user who complained about me, can I be unlocked? Because I'm not going to follow this wiki again, except to edit my test page?
I replied already. I think it would be clear already, but if not, I'll summarize:
If you're not going to follow this wiki again, you get no benefit from being unblocked from translating.
If you only want to edit your test subpage, I've already provided an alternative solution in the message linked above. This already implied I won't unblock you.
the test page was about politic - deleted by me. i am able to proofread machine translations in russian language (if i have time) if this user will learn something from this
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The original proposal says this is motivated by security reasons; I have 2FA enabled and do get my talk page notifications, so I think it should be fine to not remove mine?
As far as I’m aware, simply editing here was enough to let you keep everything. The AAR process doesn’t make exemptions for 2FA but now that you’ve edited you’re no longer “inactive.”
As long as the user replies to the notice and clearly states that they want to keep their advanced permissions (as VasilievVV did above), and the community is not opposed to it, that is enough for the stewards and it prevents the automatic removal of permissions. The post above also means that VasilievVV won't be notified again unless he fails to make an edit or log action in the next two years.
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