Question about translating
ZeIdaSymphony-PGO
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How are we expected to properly review something from a country that speaks a language foreign from our own? I’m all about helping others that don’t have enough wayfarers, but I only know a little Spanish, and it’s a pain to copy pasta to a translator. I prefer to skip them, but I never have a skip available, and I refuse to downvote them simply because I can’t read it thoroughly.
Are we expected to use another website for translating services or am I not seeing a translate button?
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There is no translate button (yet? soon™?) so google translate, or your out of luck.
Using google translate or any other translator available to you when you see a language you don't understand well would be a pretty common sense action to take. Copy-pasting works fine. Google translate has improved a lot over the years so there's not really any reason to not use it.
Install a translation plug-in if you are not using chrome? It's really not the end of the world.
In Chrome just translate the whole page, or you can right click and force it to translate if it doesn't do it automatically for some reason. Or get the Google translate plugin for your browser. I have an ad blocking browser I use on mobile and even that lets me select and translate things.
Wayfarer+ had translation built in, but Niantic doesn't like it when their customers find ways to make their lives easier...
Ain't nobody got time for that.
There's a tampermonkey plug-in that adds a translation button to the reviewing page.
You should never downvote something you don't understand. 3* is a neutral vote.
Yeah, and one problem I run into is if there are spelling mistakes (God knows we get plenty of messy English submissions) it'll stay gobbledygook after translated too.
But for me at least other language reviews are few and far between, and if translation spits out nonsense that's the one time I ever use my "skip" button. Thats kinda why it's there, right?
Correct, haven't had this issue yet but i would probably skip, and if i ran out of skips i would vote things like location accuracy, safe access, etc accordingly, and whatever i don't understand a neutral 3*
I live in Japan so EVERY nomination is in Japanese. I have to run them all through a translator. I have to translate my own nominations as well. With Chrome you can set to translate on a PC but you have to select and translate on a smartphone.
I never do. I send it through but check location accuracy and if the image appears to be legit. But that’s asking a lot for us with little to no benefit. I don’t get credit for wayfarer nominations in my GO account anymore. So while sure, I’m contributing to others, I seldom see things I may actually visit, but getting closer to gold then platinum will not happen unless Niantic fixes that particular issue.
I care about accuracy, so I don’t falter there, but it would be nice to get a little extra so we see the fruits of our labor. I use Opera on PC, Chrome on iPad. Should not have to change browsers for this. I see little review done by Niantic as far as nominations, so it would make sense to add quality of life changes. Add a built-in translator button. Also add a text editor option for reviews so we can correct mistakes like we do location changes.
Is your rating Fair or Poor? Your medal only progresses when your Wayfarer rating is Good or Great.
I’m talking about the PoGO medal you can get. The more approvals you contribute to increases it to the next level I believe. It’s not based on submissions you’ve gotten approved. My rating was great until things bugged out.
You only get credit for the Wayfarer medal in Pokemon for Wayfarer review agreements achieved while your reviewer rating is in Good or Great status, just like for Ingress's Recon medal. The Wayfarer medal does indeed have nothing to do with your own submissions.
I have reviewed 1.5k and got 700 agreement, but my rating have always been great from the beginning, is it because the rest of the 800 are still in voting or is it because i use 2/3/4 instead of 1/5?
The reason one's rating would drop is because their votes have disagreed with the majority vote on too many submissions that have passed the system, the ones still waiting to get more votes don't affect it. (Apparently Niantic has confirmed this to be the case).
Since yours hasn't dropped (yet), it could indicate you're doing something right. Better not lull oneself into a false sense of security though, a drop or drops could still theoretically happen. Unsure if voting 2-3-4 mostly helped avoiding it though, but I guess it's a theoretical possibility. It likely depends either on the averages or the median values of the patterns the people in your specific voting areas vote, or something along those lines.