change to visible strings

[mark]

Hi --

The cunning plan by rho, ysobel, and myself has now been implemented. Only strings that we have confirmed are still used on some page somewhere are visible in the translation interface. Other strings have been hidden from view.

This has reduced the number of strings in the translation interface from some 6,500 down to just shy of 3,000 strings. This means that you should have less orphaned/crufty strings to dig through.

If you see any problems, or see strings have disappeared that you know are in use somewhere, please let us know so we can investigate.

Thank you!

Comments

[katieastrophe]

Strings referring to schools are still in the translation system but I haven't spotted a way to actually make use of them so far..?

[mark]

The schools system is still in the codebase -- it's just turned off. Those strings will show up in the translation interface still.

[ivorygates]

Strings beginning with "didyouknow"? (For example: /didyouknow/index.bml.available.subtitle )

D. says they won't be used, but I still see them.

Judges' ruling, plz.

[mark]

Right now, the only strings in the translation system are still in use in the source code somewhere. So now, if we want to remove strings, we need to go pruning the code that is using them.

It's very possible that the didyouknow stuff will die, but someone will have to go yank the actual pages out of the code. :)

[ivorygates]

K! So... should I (a) ignore them (b) post notification of them to a wiki page (and if so which of the two available wiki pages) (c) re-write them into the foreign language of my choice using GoogleTrans?

[mark]

I think C is a great option.

But A is probably best, or file a bug that says 'didyouknow is no longer welcome here, please to be killing it!' Part of the process of killing it will be killing the strings. (Of course, they won't disappear from the translation interface automatically...)

Or, well, you're welcome to write a patch to do it if you want! ^_^; Coooome to the daaark siiiide of cooooode!

[ysobel]

just for the record, you are made of complete AWESOME <3

[rho]

Have come across a problem with this.

/community/members.bml.key.* strings aren't showing up in the translation system. They're put together on the fly in the bml so won't have shown up in the initial search for definitely-used strings, but they're definitely in use on the site, and have been viewed on-site and still aren't showing up.

[mark]

Hmmm. Working theory:

The system only flags strings when they get loaded from the database. If they're constantly being pulled from memcache, then it won't mark it up in the database. Since I didn't restart the memcaches at any point in the past week or two, if they were in there, they would still be in there.

I went ahead and restarted both caches right now. Try hitting the community pages, getting the strings to render, and then go check the translation interface again. If they still don't show up, I'll do some more investigating!

[rho]

Mark, you're a genius. Working now! Thank you!