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Pages should not need to be re-marked for translation if page text is the same as the last translated version
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Currently, the following happens:

  1. Page is marked for translation
  2. Vandalism is added to page
  3. Vandalism is reverted
  4. Page still shows up in Special:PageTranslation as having pending changes and must be marked for translation again.

When the combined "changes" diff is empty, it is a waste of time to mark the page for translation again. At very least pages with empty "changes" diffs should be hidden from Special:PageTranslation.

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AntiCompositeNumber created this task.Jun 4 2021, 5:55 PM
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Tacsipacsi subscribed.Jun 4 2021, 8:07 PM

I’m not sure this change would be safe to do. Consider the following scenario:

  1. Page is marked for translation.
  2. Someone makes a constructive edit to it.
  3. A vandal reverts this edit.

This looks the same from the extension’s perspective, however, in this case the page should appear on Special:PageTranslation.

Nikerabbit triaged this task as Low priority.Jul 19 2021, 11:03 AM
Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to page translation on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board.
Nikerabbit subscribed.Jul 19 2021, 12:24 PM

I do not see anything unsafe in this. If the content is exactly the same (including name of the page!) then there isn't anything but one line of metadata to update. I don't this tool is to help with vandalism monitoring, that is the job for other tools.

In fact, we already do this for things like protection which create a "null" revision. We don't ask to re-mark the again just for that.

Tacsipacsi mentioned this in T174943: Protecting a translatable page makes the message about unmarked changes appear but marking it is impossible.Sep 2 2021, 10:26 AM
Lectrician1 subscribed.Feb 5 2022, 10:05 PM
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