Please consider removing the Polish translation of WP changelogs

  • To put it frankly, the Polish translation is almost useless. The people involved stopped doing it after 4.5.2 but it’s still displayed in the admin panels of our installations. This leaves us all with having to visit the official changelog anyway. What is more, the translation’s quality was sub-par to say the least.

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    If you want this translation to improve, you can help by contributing to the translation. See https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Contributing_to_WordPress#Translation

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by cubecolour.
    Thread Starter symp

    (@symp)

    I don’t want them to improve because I see no benefit from the changelog being translated. To the contrary, had the translation not existed in the first place, the current problem would never come to be.

    Removing them is a better solution because:
    a) They are not useful anyway
    b) They are preventing people from seeing an up-to-date changelog
    c) If they do not exist no effort is necessary beyond the one-time action of deleting them, while if someone decides to update them, it will require continuous unpaid work.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    The short answer is that no, we’re not going to remove translations.

    The longer answer is that we believe that all of the things should be available in all languages, whenever possible. If a translation team for a language wants to continue translating, then we will allow them to do so and facilitate it in whatever manner possible.

    In short, we’re not going to just ‘drop’ a language due to inactivity.

    What if someone wants to improve WordPress and requires it to be translated to Polish? Not everyone speaks the same language, and it’s really not hurting anything. Flexibility is part of what makes WordPress the best CMS/blogging platform in the world.

    Thread Starter symp

    (@symp)

    We are not talking about the polish translation of WP itself but of the blog posts about new releases. If someone wants to contribute they will go through trac or list of revisions to look for changes that may impact thir projects anyway – and none of this are translated.

    If you’ve read the previous posts you will see that

    it’s really not hurting anything

    is a false statement.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by symp.
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