Where to report interface translation errors?

Wostr

I use Polish as a main interface language on FamilySearch and I came across a certain translation error, but I couldn't find any instructions as to where to report it. This is about translating "National Identification" Fact as "Dokument tożsamości" (which means "Identity document" in Polish like passport or ID, but the English "National Identification" seems to be a broader term.

David Alan Webber

It may be most productive, for now, to report it here:

Polski - Polish — FamilySearch Community

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If you don't see a response after a few days, there's a little "flag" icon on the lower left of the past posts, that you could use to bring attention to your report.

If other folks have a better way, please let us know.

Dzien dobry!

Ashlee C.

@Wostr I will send this in to be looked at. Where did you come across this translation error? Is it in the person's profile? If you could provide links or PIDs so the engineers can see it, that would be helpful.

Alan E. Brown

@Ashlee C. This is when you click Add Fact from any person profile page. Here's an example: Andrew Sproul III

Here it is in English:

And here it is in Polish:

Note that the same issue appears in the mobile Family Tree app (both iOS and Android) — they probably use the same translators.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I'm starting to wonder if it's the English wording that's a bit off? The Hungarian translation comes out "personal identification document".

While that's not at all where "National Identification" leads for Americans (who have no federal IDs and are proud of it), it does seem odd to have both that and "National Origin" as separate items on the same list. So maybe FS actually meant this to be "government-issued identification document", and the Polish (and Hungarian) translations are actually correct?

Wostr

The others above have correctly explained what my question is about. Given these kinds of discrepancies, there should be some sort of glossary that explains exactly what the fields are for. Then it would also be possible to clarify translations in specific languages. Otherwise, this could potentially cause problems if people using different interface languages ​​are working on the same relative (this may seem purely theoretical, but I've seen FamilySearch reviews in which someone complained that two users were reverting each other's changes due to differing opinions on what information was worth adding).

Alan E. Brown

The National Identification fact in Family Tree is connected to the NationalId fact type in the GedcomX specification.

To be specific, the Gedcom X Fact Types specification says:

http://gedcomx.org/NationalId	A fact of a person's national id (e.g., social security number).

This definition refers to the ID, which could be related to a document, but is not precisely a document. Of course, the GedcomX connection is not broadly known, and FamilySearch's help system doesn't document this detail, so most users won't have any reason to adhere to this definition. But I thought I'd share it just to provide some color to the discussion.

As the primary creator of the GedcomX specification, perhaps FamilySearch might choose to link to some of the GedcomX documentation in some relevant help articles.