User talk:MdsShakil
It’s okay to have this as a warning, but it shouldn’t prevent saving; please uncheck that option. By nature of translations, it’s every now and then absolutely okay to not change anything even though the English message changed – singular/plural change in English, but the target language doesn’t differentiate them in the given context, a different wording in English that necessitates changes in most languages but not in that one, and so on. When working with natural language, like in translations, there is always an exception. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:33, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- This filter was imported from MediaWiki to prevent abuse. I believe the nature of this wiki requires editing restrictions. I could rather add a global variable. MdsShakil (talk) 13:51, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Note that MdsShakil has exempted users with more than 50 global edits, which seems reasonable to me. I should have thought that valid translators might have few local edits here since there is nothing else to edit when I requested the filter be imported. Another suggestion would be excluding edits with an edit summary, since in my experience the unfuzzy vandals never leave one. Pppery (talk) 17:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- If one intentionally wants to vandalize pages and puts effort in that, it’s easy to work this filter around by adding an extra character somewhere. If they vandalize unintentionally or don’t put effort in the intentional vandalism, a warning (“prevent saving” unchecked) can just as well stop them as an error (“prevent saving” checked). However, I can accept the error if providing an edit summary prevents it from applying, and this is explained in the error message (e.g. “if the changes in the source text don’t necessitate changes in the translations, please explain this in the edit summary”). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:20, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Note that MdsShakil has exempted users with more than 50 global edits, which seems reasonable to me. I should have thought that valid translators might have few local edits here since there is nothing else to edit when I requested the filter be imported. Another suggestion would be excluding edits with an edit summary, since in my experience the unfuzzy vandals never leave one. Pppery (talk) 17:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)