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1boekerij
Redigeret: okt 9, 2006, 9:27 pm

I am quite puzzled. I just noticed that the Translations page (Dutch edition) was mentioning:

Dutch (Dutch)
Stand
  • Aandeel vertaald: 113.8%


Alle talen
Stand


Talking Fun Statistics!

Update :

Numbers seem to be falling back some already :

Nederlands (Dutch)
Stand
  • Aandeel vertaald: 106%


Alle talen
Stand


Then again, Tim was and is absolutely right, for he warned :

9/30. These numbers are going to be a litte crazy for a while, particularly the "done" percentage.



I second to that!

2Ottox
okt 9, 2006, 9:17 pm

Ha! I posted at the same time - but your numbers are even better than mine! Lol!

3boekerij
okt 9, 2006, 9:56 pm

>2 Ottox:

Nice to meet you, brother.

It sounds clear that you are translating far too fast for LT to keep up with you.

Then again, while LT is having some problems with its relative numbers--percentages, that is--its absolute numbers might be on track. And the latter can be rather impressive, too, I think, as with i.a. :

Dansk (Danish)
Status
  • Procent oversat: 113.3%
Oversættelsesgruppe

Æresliste


and :

Alle sprog
Æresliste
  • Ottox - 1112 redigeringer (Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish)


  • Then again, I wonder how you managed to find the locations of all this stuff to edit and translate. Sure, it can be found, because you did. You must be a lot smarter than I am--I am not having any problem with that, you know.

    Still, you might have a look at e.g. my question (in German) in the LibraryThing in German Group.

    You might undertand I 'm having lots of similar questions.

    See i.a. in this group, too.

4timspalding
okt 9, 2006, 11:05 pm

Yeah. What's basically happened is I cleared out the list of things-to-be translated. This list is populated when someone hits a page with something that needs to be translated. So by clearing it out I cleaned out dead wood--things that don't actually need to be translated (eg., all the repeated Group: Xs) as well as stuff that does. Since then I've run around the site clicking pages, as have users--without knowing they were doing that. The numbers are almost down to 100%.

I've also added a "translate everything left" link. Click on the translation homepage (here) and look under "For manaical translators" :)

5boekerij
okt 9, 2006, 11:21 pm

>4 timspalding:

And You are talking about maniacal behaviour and maniacs, are you?

I kind of like your humour. (And so do others, it seems.)

6Ottox
okt 10, 2006, 6:32 am

> 3

I never managed to find the place to translate that sentence until now either! ;)

7timspalding
okt 11, 2006, 10:54 pm

I think the over 100% are from people translating things that no longer exist, mostly because they were redundant. For a while it was allowing you to translate "Group: XYZ" which lead to people going Groupo X, Groupo Y, etc.

I need to check this theory, however.

8boekerij
okt 11, 2006, 11:30 pm

>7 timspalding:

Translators have been discovering several duplicate paragraphs to be translated, too--the latter even at the same translation edit page. Speaking redundancy!?

Furthermore, translation edit pages--in whatever language--are sometimes offering some strange (and obviuosly erroneous) text snippets as i.a. :
(<span id="tr4002045839" class="trans">tamanho proporcional à freqüência</span>)

I leave them the way they are, not providing any "translation", because they are obviously not meant to appear at the translation edit screen, Methinks. You might have a look at those particularities, too.

9Ottox
okt 12, 2006, 4:47 pm

> 7
While it (as far as I've seen) no longer wants translations for "Group Profile: XYZ", it still wants us to translate "Group Zeitgeist: XYZ"