Topic on Talk:Content translation/Flow

Due to procrastination and other reasons, I have a number of article translations that seem to have been unmodified and unpublished for more than 1 year. There seems to have been quietly cleared, there is not even logs to remind. Some of them are completed but not satisfied, due to lack of peers and/or self-confidence. Any way to find the cleanup log? Even the content? (I know this is difficult) And, I suggest that you provide a notification or email notification to the translators to save something that might be useful. p.s. considering rights and privacy, I don't recommend automatic posting to a draft at present.

In addition, it seems that users only need to open, automatically save, and close the translate page to renew a translation. This does not seem to be a good measure for real waste, consider a quota such as the number of translating (this also prevents others to translating).

Thanks for the feedback, @YFdyh000.

I'm sorry to hear that some of your work got lost. As part of the process to discard inactive translations the tool sends a notification to warn users after some time and another one to notify the deletion.

Since the source content changes over time, we recommend not to keep translations in progress for very long times. Currently we are working on the support for Section translation as part of the Boost initiative, which will allow to expand existing articles by translating one specific section. This may provide more flexibility to work on smaller parts of an article and prevent work to accumulate for long periods without publishing.

I have never seen these notifications, which may be because my notifications is overwhelmed by the created articles is cited. It does not appear to be a permanent logs that can be retrieved, and it is not an advance notice (such as 3 months or 1 month), which needs to be improved. I want it to be an @ notification, email notification, and allow to be customized in preferences.

@Pginer-WMF: Same problem for me. I even never knew that inactive translations get discarded until now. As explained in Topic:Vlmpssafluyp3o76 I lost several hundred hours of work. That's just bad design. I am translating articles for 14 years now, and I have started translations ten years ago which for reasons are not ready. As you can see for example in w:de:Benutzer:Matthiasb/Notizblock#Eastside Historic Cemetery District the modifications of the source are marginal. There is no reason to discard a translation because of it's old. Well, lessons learned: do not use the tool anymore, except for disambiguation pages to fascilate linking. --Matthiasb (talk) 05:03, 22 June 2020 (UTC)ons.s

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