On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Runa Bhattacharjee < [email protected]> wrote:
> The tool is in active development and despite the issues reported, we still > think that the overall balance of the content contributed is still > positive. From our observation, users translating content with Content > Translation are normally editing the articles after creation to improve > them, and the deletion ratio is much lower compared to that of articles > created from scratch. The purpose of the tool is to facilitate the creation > of those first versions to be later evolved. Disabling the tool would also > impact the workflow of many users who chose to use Content Translation > because it saves them time. > As it has become usual with tools developed by WMF (VE, Flow, ...), I think you disregard each time the damages made by these tools on wikis, preferring to deploy it in alpha/beta versions to a wide audience before making it stable. I clearly think it's a big error. "The tool is in active development" : I reported most of the problems in the early days of CX release, none of them seem to have been fixed, so clearly, damages is not among your primary concern, you prefer to deploy it widely rather than taking a more cautious approach by fixing the major bugs before expanding the audience. Why some users now have a workflow with a really buggy tool ? Simply because of the approach you took... Given the number of articles I happen to fix myself, I can assure you that most of the CX users never fix the problems created by CX... So yes, it saves them time, at the expense of the time of other people who try to keep a clean encyclopedia. So, thanks for the extra work... Nico _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
