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Don't know how you got there, but that does not appear to be a translatable unit.

Siebrand17:30, 29 August 2010

Obsolete messages show up in search results all the time. The signs of obsolescence are not obvious to the non-initiated. Since your policy is not to clean them up, perhaps there should be an indication on the edit page or window that a message has been deactivated for translation.

McDutchie17:41, 29 August 2010

In which use case do obsolete messages show up all the time? The only thing I can think of is in TM results. And that's exactly where we want to keep them for a while.

Siebrand17:42, 29 August 2010

I came across this message when reviewing recent changes to cy - user Xxglennxx had changed this message. I imagine that he had run a search for the word 'gwylio' - there is a whole batch of changes related to this word.

Lloffiwr17:55, 29 August 2010

Well, I know that you can also sometimes come across unused messages through an {{Identical}} template. But since that's a template hack at the moment anyway, the proper solution should probably solve this problem.

The Evil IP address18:13, 29 August 2010
 

When searching for any keyword using the search box at the top left, obsolete messages containing the keyword in question will show up in the search results the same way current ones do, with no way to distinguish between them from the results list.

You can distinguish them on the translation page itself by the absence of an English original (and in the classic/non-Javascript editor, by the absence of the "In other languages" link at the left), but for most users, this is confusing and clarifies nothing.

I do agree with keeping obsolete messages. They are useful for translation memory purposes if nothing else. But I think it would be good to have some clear way of distinguishing them from current messages, in search results and in the edit pages themselves.

McDutchie20:40, 29 August 2010

Have amended the FAQ on this. Am not sure that the sentence 'Obsolete messages are not included in the translation tool or in the localisation statistics' is correct.

Lloffiwr08:06, 30 August 2010

This correct: 'Obsolete messages are not included in the translation tool or in the localisation statistics.

Siebrand08:09, 30 August 2010