Hello, On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 06:18:28PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Am 17. November 2023 17:37:14 MEZ schrieb Helge Kreutzmann > <deb...@helgefjell.de>: > >Hello Laura et. al. > >Am Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 12:41:54PM +0100 schrieb Laura Arjona Reina: > >> > If I look at > >> > /srv/www.debian.org/www/international/l10n/po > >> > I see more than 9400 html files. Wow! > >> > We provide the "Status of PO files for language code: de — German " in > >> > 15 different languages (ls de.*.html) and all german files (including > >> > de_*.*.html) are 112. What is this good for? > >> > I'll just pick one: > >> > de_PY.nl.html is > >> > "Toestand van de PO-bestanden voor de taalcode: de_PY — German > >> > @tmpl_lang@ndash; Paraguay" > >> > who needs this? > > > >Users who do not speak english (very well). In your example this is a > >combination, so a (probably wrong or very rare) language combination > > "Users, who do not speak English (very well)" ??? > > This is a page specific for translators, and the workflow in Debian is > "translate from English to <your language>". > > So, we should expect that every person viewing this page is capable of > reading/speaking English!
Yes, but why should other users be deprived of reading it as well,
even if they might not be able to contribute?
To be clear: For me the content matters, as I'm well capable of
reading it in english.
> Therefore, I propose to remove all translations of these pages! It is enough,
> if they are only existing in English.
>
> That would reduce the amount of pages from 9400 to 580 without losing
> anything.
If there are ressource constraints on the web server then this should
be clearly said so. Otherwise I do not see a reason why the existing
translations (where translation teams decided to do the work) should
be removed.
Greetings
Helge
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