Translations update from Hosted Weblate

[weblate]

Translations update from Hosted Weblate for LinuxCNC/LinuxCNC.

It also includes following components:

• LinuxCNC/LinuxCNC/Gmocappy

Current translation status:

[dsa-t]

Commits by @gfghjjk (https://hosted.weblate.org/user/xXx/#changes) for Russian translation should be reverted. These are machine-translated, and replace correct translations without understanding the terminology or context.

[petterreinholdtsen]

[dsa-t]

Commits by @gfghjjk (https://hosted.weblate.org/user/xXx/#changes) for Russian translation should be reverted. These are machine-translated, and replace correct translations without understanding the terminology or context.

Are you on IRC? Sound like something we would like to do a more interactive discussion about how to handle. I believe xXx on Weblate is IlyaKw on IRC. Did you talk to him about this? How do you know they are machine translated? Note, I do not understand a word Russian. I only try to help with the translation framework in this regard. I assume you already found the presentation on <URL: https://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/ru >. Filtering out translations done by a specific person is not going to be trivial, it is easier to revert back to a time before the person started translating.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I believe xXx on Weblate is IlyaKw on IRC.

This was based on me believing there was only one person interested in and active with translating to Russian. I was just told by IlyaKw that he do not konw who xXx is. I guess this mean there are at least three persons interested in the Russian translation, xXx, IlyaKw and dsa-t. It would be best if you could work out how to handle the Russian translation among yourself, as you understand the langauge a lot better than me.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[dsa-t]

I'm not especially interested in contributing to LinuxCNC translations since I don't use it. I'm just reporting about the damage this user is causing to various projects. I'm not in the IRC.

See some examples of seemingly correct translations being replaced with machine ones. A human (who knows some terminology) wouldn't write like that:
https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/linuxcnc/linuxcnc/ru/?checksum=7bf6e0114fa62e16
https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/linuxcnc/linuxcnc/ru/?checksum=7f7be0d15d68818e

Also see that user accepting a translation for Tor VPN "Circuits" with "Racing Tracks":
https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/tor/tor-vpn/ru/?checksum=27a2b1aa0330fc56

[petterreinholdtsen]

I created an open issue to put the topic higher on the radar of the developers, see #2667 .

[andypugh]

The first example does strike me as wrong, it seems to translate "Home" literally as "House" for example. (Just based on using Google Translate myself)

[dsa-t]

If I would be using LinuxCNC, the original translations by @aystarik look more correct.

In the first case:
Hand wheel => MPG Hand Wheel => Штурвал РГИ
https://darxton.ru/catalog_section/generatory-impulsov-ruchnye-mpg/

[petterreinholdtsen]

[dsa-t]

I'm not especially interested in contributing to LinuxCNC translations since I don't use it. I'm just reporting about the damage this user is causing to various projects. I'm not in the IRC.

Thank you for the heads up. I've tried to email xXx to see what he go to say, and will try to follow up on this to see what the Russian speaking LinuxCNC community recommend we do about this. The change set since before xXx started contributing to the Russian translation via Weblate is 2080 lines long since commit cac8149 for src/po/gmoccapy and 12906 lines long since commit 00d5f25 for src/po. He did not contribute to docs/po/ as far as I can tell.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I've tried to email xXx to see what he go to say, and will try to follow up on this to see what the Russian speaking LinuxCNC community recommend we do about this.

I decided to block xXx from contributing to LinuxCNC translations on Weblate until I hear from him, to avoid making any revertion task any larger. I see IlyaKw has been updating at least some of the translations done by xXx, no idea if it made it better or worse, but hope for the latter. I suspect this mean it is easier to update than to revert moving forward. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen