Summary of 2022

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Dear CTT translators:

Thank you very much for your contribution in the past year.
We have done a good job as always.

1. keep on localizing www.gnu.org to Simplified Chinese
2. help review 2 of the new translation of GNU licences: AGPL and LGPL
3. welcomed several new comer, including Wind

The following is the summary from GNU. Please take you time to read.

Dear GNU translators!

This year was relatively quiet; the total number of new translations
was considerably lower than in 2021, especially in terms of size.

Almost two of every three translations were made in the "Simplified"
Chinese team; the Albanian and Turkish teams significantly reduced
the percentage of their outdated translations.

      General Statistics

In November, we reached new maximum values of translations per file
in important directories, 9.44 translations per file (0.12 more
than in 2021) and 8.85 translations weighted with size of articles
(0.46 more than in 2021), 50 Mi in 3300 files total.

Meanwhile, the percent of outdated translations was as high
as at the end of 2021 (about twice as high as the historical
minimum in 2014-2015).

The table below shows the number and size of newly translated
articles in important directories and typical number of outdated
GNUNified translations throughout the year.

+--team--+------new-------+--outdated--+
|   es   |  11 ( 70.9Ki)  |  1.9 (1%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   fa   |   4 ( 41.3Ki)  |  26 (90%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   fr   |   9 (103.2Ki)  | 0.8 (0.2%) |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   it   |   0 (  0.0Ki)  |  32 (23%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   ja   |   0 (  0.0Ki)  |  32 (23%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   ml   |   0 (  0.0Ki)  |  31 (93%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   nl   |   0 (  0.0Ki)  |  52 (41%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   pl   |   1 (183.5Ki)  |  64 (43%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|  pt-br |   0 (  0.0Ki)  | 114 (53%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   ru   |   4 ( 62.0Ki)  | 0.9 (0.3%) |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   sq   |   7 ( 81.3Ki)  | 1.8 (2.4%) |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   tr   |   1 (  5.6Ki)  | 2.3 (1.8%) |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|   uk   |   5 ( 64.0Ki)  |  78 (79%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|  zh-cn |  66 (532.8Ki)  | 1.4 (0.9%) |
+--------+----------------+------------+
|  zh-tw |   0 (  0.0Ki)  |  45 (98%)  |
+--------+----------------+------------+
+--------+----------------+
| total  | 108 (1144.7Ki) |
+--------+----------------+

For the reference: 8 new articles were added, amounting to 72Ki,
and there were about 500 changes in about 150 English files
in the important directories, approximately two times less than
in 2021.

Like in 2021, few translations were converted to the gettext format.
With no advances in this area for over three years, I think it's time
to start decomissioning the unconverted translations.

      Orphaned Teams, New and Reformed Teams

German team was orphaned, Brazilian Portuguese team's leader
stepped down.  No new teams were established.

Volunteers requested establishing teams for Telugu and Danish,
with no success.  The re-organization of Italian team didn't
complete.

An occasional contributor updated a few Arabic translations.
The Farsi team effectively started its work, but the number
of out-of-date translations remains high.

      Changes in the Page Regeneration System

GNUN 1.3 was released this year, fixing a few compatibility
issues and making expanded HTML in validation routines closer
to Apache behavior.

Happy GNU year, and thank you for your contributions!

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