[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5844: Cleaning up translations which lack an author.

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#5844: Cleaning up translations which lack an author.
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 Reporter:  NekoJonez                 |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
Component:  Translate Site & Plugins  |   Keywords:
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 To follow up from the meeting we had today in the #polygots channel, I
 think it would be a great idea if somehow we can easier clean up the old
 translations that lack an author.

 The discussion started from here:
 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP50LK/p1627417555092500

 We could do this in various ways, which each have their upsides and
 downsides.

 1) Attach them to the project author (plugin/theme) -> Then they have an
 author and it's of the developer BUT it's still going to be a witch hunt
 to find and edit them.

 2) Put them all back into waiting, which is going to show them all for
 GTE's & PTE's but it's might ruin a lot of already done core translations.

 3) Attach them all to a generic account? This well make less of a witch
 hunt but the question is then... how far do we go with this? Since, in
 which projects are these strings? One per type of project, so one for
 Core/Meta, one for theme's and one for plugins? And do we do it per
 locale...? Or per "main locale" ? (EG: One for nl_NL, nl_BE and nl_NL-
 formal instead of 3)

 As @dd32 already pointed out:
 dd32  10:19 AM
 Right, it’s not, I could probably find a way.. but it’s not as simple..
 given there are <counting… counting…> nearly 1 million projects+locales
 matches with unknown authorship strings.

 Currently, a changeset have been made already to help somewhat in this:

 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11154

 Which is a great help already. But, it's only project based for now.

 Personally, I'm a fan of the 3rd option. But, I think that we need to work
 this out and discuss this further and look with the developers to see
 what's possible since if we are talking about over 1 million strings... If
 we do this wrong, this might get extremely messy.

 So, I created this ticket just to keep track of this idea/thing and post
 possible idea's and thoughts. :)

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