Re: translation spam
On 8 June 2011 21:36, Erik Esterer <erik.esterer@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2011/6/8 Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com>:
>> I think that a very simple check can identify this spam typo at nearly 100%:
>> if in the translation there is a http link and this http link is not present
>> in the English test, than you have spam! And the "Accept with changes" must
>> reject the proposed new text version.
>
> I don't think it's that easy. Sometimes there are language specific
> links (English Wikipedia, English Guidelines) and the German team
> changes those links to the German equivalent (German Wikipedia,
> translated Guidelines...).
> Your proposal would disallow making those changes. So the check has to
> be more sophisticated (eg. just checking the top-level and
> second-level domain).
Well, the simplest solution is to simply forbid changes without an account.
In the beginning I worried about forcing that but I think these days
it won't bother people as much.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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