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When you introduce a bot that can and will revert any human-made translation, even if the translation is fine, then that’s a huge middle finger to a community that is over two decades old. They could have rolled out the new bot on a staging server to test, discuss, and improve how the SUMO Bot could lend the community a hand, but instead, they decided to deploy it directly on the live server without any communication.

The bug caused the SUMO bot to revert already translated content back to English. So that doesn’t really have anything to do with why everyone is upset.

I’d rather buy handsoap for a few cents than moisturize my hands every time.

But it wont’t simplify the process if the SumoBot reverts human-made translations. I read the post of Michele Rodaro who seems to bee in charge of the Italien Community, and he wrote that the Italian language is rather complex and nuanced language. Some sentences requiere more words, verbs, and phrases that doesn’t refelct the original En-US text.

" If a technical writer edits the original en-US article and replaces some words in a sentence, or just some words, SumoBot intervenes in the translation of that sentence and rearranges it to faithfully reflect the en-US text. So, if I added something to make a concept more understandable for an Italian user, those additions have been reverted in the new version of SumoBot"

Yes, you can. But the main problem is that the bot updates or translates immediately, which means they can’t really train new contributors on how the localization process works and the syntax of the Sumo wiki if they just end up proofreading what the SumoBot already translated. Besides that, it seems like the implementation of the bot happened without any communication, which is a shitty move and a middle finger to the community anyway.