Select bulk items and apply 'Keep origin translation'

[khoipro]

Hi,

There are many times I saw the string should not be translated, such as date format, and city names. Is there any way we could bulk select items and apply 'Keep origin translation' to avoid single approval action?

Thanks,

[amieiro]

If the string should not be translated, the best approach is to don't make it translatable.
We have recently added some error checks to GlotPress in #1644 and at translate.w.org we are going to add some checks for the WordPress core project in WordPress/wordpress.org#162: timezone strings, start of week number, unexpected slug format or unexpected timezone date format, so if you think some translations should have a specific format, the best approach is to add an error check in GlotPress or at translate.w.og.

[khoipro]

The discussion in Slack here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP50LK/p1690356179365669

We hope GTE (who can approve bulk items) uses it to avoid extra time for unused strings. If we keep it no translation, the percentage for releasing will be stuck.

[marcarmengou]

I leave this here in case you think it might be a possible solution to this: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7132

[pedro-mendonca]

There are cases where the string might not have a translation in a particular language. Some examples that make sense might be some city names, country names, in Portuguese there are some that already have a translation but the vast majority coule easily be bulk copied from original. Another example is English variants, probably for English UK many things can just be copied from original.

[pedro-mendonca]

@marcarmengou that is a different situation.

I think this is about the need of a new bulk action: "Copy original"

[nilovelez]

Yes, GotDict browser extension adds the "Copy from original" bulk action and it's really useful for GTEs/CLPTEs to get untranslatable strings out of the way and prevent that volunteers waste time on them.