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Hi Tom,<br>
<br>
Well, the "translator" in question has recently deleted his account
as as far as I can tell, is no longer adding translations. And the
problem wasn't so much that he was undoing our work, it was that he
was continually adding "new translations". Splitting Gaelic into
more than one locale is a really bad idea, the divisions are not
that bad to begin with and with less than 60,000 speakers,
maintaining *2* is not going to work. So just keeping the one gd
locale is the preferred option. And apart from Linux Mint, we have
done the lion's share of proofreading.<br>
<br>
However, having said that, I do think Ubuntu on the whole needs a
proper process for dealing with such problems. It's bound to happen
in other locales and it will, in the end, harm the image of the
project if there is no way of preventing really bad translations
from reaching the general public (and removing or at least hiding
them from the suggestions, some strings now in gd have so many bad
suggestions attached they sometimes run outside the screen...). We
all laugh at Coca Cola and Co for producing bad translations of
advertisements which are hilarious in another language - but
sometimes in open source projects I get the feeling that people are
too willing to assume that peer review will fix everything.<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">18/10/2013 10:57, sgrìobh Tom Davies:<br>
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cite="mid:1382090231.50820.YahooMailNeo@web28905.mail.ir2.yahoo.com"
type="cite">Hi :) <br>
There is a deep division between the team working on the
translations for Scottish Gaelic and an individual. <br>
<br>
I've been worrying about how we can resolve the situation. Even
though it is uncomfortable and we would normally leave it to the
individuals to resolve the situation i think it would be good if
there was some way we could step in and do something. Otherwise
this festering problem is only likely to get worse leaving us with
at least 2 angry scotsmen and even just 1 is dangerous enough. <br>
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normal;"><span>Could we create a new 'team' and language code
and move the individual's translations into that? Then the
rest of the team can carry on with the good work they do
without finding all their work undone by the individual? <br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
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normal;"><span>There are several dialects within the country and
deep divisions between people from different areas. Edinburgh
vs Glasgae vs the isles and even between places even closer
together. </span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
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HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida
Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;">So, could we set-up a separate language code and team?
<br>
<span></span></div>
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HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida
Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Regards from <br>
Tom :) <br>
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