The need for new guideline for translating OSM wikis

[Casey_boy]

Hi,

Not sure if you’ve seen this thread?

Wiki translation should follow English version?

Do translations for common wiki pages like Map Features should follow what is on English version? Or they can be extended or improved? In fact, I have included some extra tags (in use or de facto) in the Spanish version that are not in the English version. These tags were added via TagList instead of defining regular tables. Recently, the user Fred73000 (Talk) is telling me that translations should follow what is on English version, and he is deleting tags on Spanish version that are not in Eng…

There was a fair bit of discussion on there. My suggestion was to faithfully translate the English version but to have a separate section that allowed for localisation issues or clarifications. But it can require a lot of work to keep translated versions up-to-date with the English version.