Reverting changes to the source text should unfuzzy units the original changes fuzzied
Closed, ResolvedPublic2 Estimated Story PointsFeature
Actions

Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
If a change to a translation pages that marks translations as outdated is reverted then the translations should be unmarked outdated. This could be done by comparing the content of the tp:transver revision to the current revision, and unmarking as fuzzy if they are the same (assuming the message isn't manually FUZZY and doesn't fail validation)

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

MediaWiki.org has had a problem lately with translation admins failing in their task of minimizing unnecessary invalidations (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Y4i1jx116mxpu7kh), and then sometimes being reverted (for example https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:About&action=history). It would be nice if were possible to clean up after them without having to spend hundreds to thousands undoing something clicks on something that took one click to do.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

So I don't have to do things like https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Pppery_(alt)&target=Pppery+%28alt%29&offset=20240608223217&limit=500

Conceptually the opposite of T367934 (handling fuzzy status correctly when the translation unit is reverted).

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Unfuzzy translations when the change that made them fuzzy is reverted	mediawiki/extensions/Translate	master	+280 -113

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T367934: Explicitly reverting an edit to a translation unit should revert changes to the fuzzy status
Mentioned Here: T367934: Explicitly reverting an edit to a translation unit should revert changes to the fuzzy status

Event Timeline

Pppery created this task.Jun 18 2024, 11:41 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJun 18 2024, 11:41 PM

(Yes, this is kind of a rant disquised as a feature request. But I think it's a decent idea on its own merits)

Pppery mentioned this in T367934: Explicitly reverting an edit to a translation unit should revert changes to the fuzzy status.Jun 19 2024, 12:25 AM

Pppery updated the task description. (Show Details)

Pppery claimed this task.Jun 19 2024, 4:55 AM

Change #1047540 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Unfuzzy translations when the change that made them fuzzy is reverted

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1047540

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 19 2024, 3:07 PM

Ideally we would have a UI to retroactively declare that the change from tp:transver N to tp:transver M should not have unfuzzied (or perhaps even should have unfuzzied - accidentally ticking "do not invalidate translations" is a much less common problem than forgetting to tick it hopefully) translations. But there's a workaround (revert the change to the source text, mark it, self-revert, mark it again with the correct unfuzzy settings), and that's a much bigger project than I have the motivation to do, so the above patch satisfies me.