In the November update post, Tony stated
‘Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps’
So, in November, in total there were some hundred words to be translated.
Today, 2nd December, I opened my Email inbox to discover this:
so if hundreds count as ‘many’, what’s the appropriate description for several thousand words??
This feels like starting to translate a novella.
(Btw, I didn’t dare to take a look at the strings yet…)
I am completely and boringly monolingual, so I appreciate your efforts to make iNat accessible around the world. But I have gotten in the habit of IDing Unknowns and there are certainly novellas (novels, whole series - hell, encyclopedias!) of Unknowns to be dealt with. If it helps, I try to think of IDing Unknowns and, I suspect, doing translations like my knitting. One stitch at a time, a row or two a night, a whole section of completely boring work in the middle where I just grit my teeth and keep on working (but I do whine), and lo! A new sweater in a couple of months. And then I can’t wait to start another one.
Let’s face it: We’re all crazy in the best ways.
Sorry about that @carnifex. I tried out Crowdin’s translation branch feature, which is supposed to not require translators to re-translate everything they’ve already translated in the branch, but it screwed up on all the plural strings and they all appeared as untranslated in the branch, and yes, that is a novella’s worth of text.
Anyway, I deleted the branch so in theory it should be back to normal now.
The slightly longer explanation is that we’re hoping to make a long-overdue requirement that everyone have a functioning email address, and those changes do include a lot of new and altered text that will need to be translated. I was hoping to make that text available to translators before we merge and deploy those changes, which is what Crowdin’s translation branches are supposed to achieve, but I guess we’ll just have to do what we normally do: merge the changes, avoid deploying for a few days, and then merge whatever translations we get get before deploying.
Too often we suffer most sorely
and thereby feel most poorly
from dreaded aches and pains.
That’s a relief! In hindsight, I should’ve checked the strings to realize they weren’t there (anymore)
Do not worry, there are new strings to translate…
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