[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  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by dd32):

 > 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.

 IMHO, these are correctly not authored by any specific user. I don't think
 we should assign them to any user.
 As of [11154] you can find these translations in a specific project, but,
 there isn't a listing of the other 850k projects/locales that have
 imported strings in this stage.

 > 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.

 Unfortunately we cannot really filter to -just- translations that were
 auto-imported from a plugin, although we can mostly assume it. Future
 strings will go into waiting per [11155]. Previous strings are reviewed by
 the plugin author, as it's assumed that they knew what they were doing,
 similarly to strings that plugin authors do not mark as translateable.

 > 3) Attach them all to a generic account? [...]  in which projects are
 these strings? One per type of project, so one for Core/Meta, one for
 theme's and one for plugins?
 They should only be in plugins.

 IMHO; This is a waste of time, The strings can be corrected when/if
 someone finds one that is out of place, or that doesn't meet the locales
 current glossary. With the sheer number of strings that are in this state
 (12.5 million strings over 850k translation sets (project/locale)) it's
 not likely that there's going to be anything significant to find.

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