Getting entries approved for minority languages

Fòram na Gàidhlig fios at foramnagaidhlig.net
Thu May 15 10:17:57 CDT 2014


Hi all,

I have started setting up a locale for Scottish Gaelic (gd) and have
been busy on the Survey Tool this week. Whenever I change a term, the
Survey Tool tells me "Changes to this item require 4 votes." I now fear
that all my work might just go down the drain, because I don't know
where to get 4 more voters from.

It is good QA for big languages to require 5 people to approve a term,
but a huge problem for us, because we won't be getting any changes in
this way, ever. There are only 2 people in the world who localize pro
bono into Scottish Gaelic, and I can't expect the other localizer to
proofread the complete locale. So, even if we had 100% of available
localizers working on this, we would still be 3 votes short.

My fellow localizer has actually written an article about this problem:

http://akerbeltzalba.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/when-peer-review-goes-pear-shaped/

So, could we please make an exception for my language and simply get any
winning items in, even if they only have 1 vote from me?

Does anybody else on this list have the same problem, and how did you
manage to solve it?

Moreover, I have found a few already approved entries that will be even
harder to change. We do need to change some of them though; I have
already found a grammar error in one of them that I can't imagine would
have slipped past 5 reviewers. So, no idea how those got in.


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