Delete MediaWiki:Dberr-info/hif-latn

Please delete MediaWiki:Dberr-info/hif-latn, its just a copy of the English version of the message. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:24, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Not this alone :-( I looked through the file and see some hundred "translations" into English. Any chance for an automated comparison and deletion process?

So I really quickly hacked a script together:

• copied https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/languages/i18n/hif-latn.json (excluding the metadata) into my browser console as `maybeTranslations`
• copied https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/languages/i18n/en.json (excluding the metadata) into my browser console as `englishVersions`
• ran the following code

var notTranslations = {};
Object.keys( maybeTranslations ).forEach(
    function ( key ) {
        if ( maybeTranslations[ key ] === englishVersions[ key ] ) {
            notTranslations[ key ] = maybeTranslations[ key ];
        }
    }
);

and then retrieved the list of messages in notTranslations. I got a list of 520 different messages that exactly matched the English version - I couldn't find a way to collapse the list if I were to paste it here, so I dumped it on my sandbox on metawiki - format is message name and then the text - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DannyS712/sandbox&oldid=20632414

@Raymond: have you had a chance to review the list above?

Hi DannyS712, to be honest: I saw your list, thanks a lot, and closed it again due to the mass... I had no time to manually remove/delete all of them in November. I will think about a faster solution.

I wrote a script to do this. I ran it for mediawiki aggregate group for now:

php scripts/deleteEqualTranslations.php --group=mediawiki --language=hif-latn --comment="Cleaning up translations which are equal to the definition"
Found 678 message(s) created by these users:
   268 | Smcnarayan
   160 | Girmitya
   152 | Thakurji
    69 | Abdul Kadir
     9 | Brijlal
     6 | Raymond
     4 | AndySingh
     3 | Siebrand
     3 | FuzzyBot
     1 | Soul Train
     1 | JinJian
     1 | C.R.
     1 | Vito Genovese

Will check some other message groups later.

Done. I think this is now resolved sufficiently well.

I ran my hacked script again, and this time I found no translations that were the same as the English, so I agree