Much though I dislike personal incompetence, I agree with bitmover about disentangling some of the issues here. Indeed, I will go one step further: With such an important matter as the translation of Satoshi’s whitepaper, my first concern is that the good should chase out the bad with something better.
but I believe there were more users hoping to have their translation accepted. Or maybe Ike was the only one who applied. I can't know.
If you yourself were to produce a Romanian translation, and obtain an endorsement of its accuracy and its stylistic merits from Romanian forum reviewers who have native-level literacy, that would be a purely constructive solution; and it would admit no argument in the eyes of Romanians, who could compare the translations side by side.
The shame reflects at worst on the translator, but afterwards it reflects also on Bitcoin, Satoshi's original writing, Bitcoin.org and on all Romanians as a nation. And that's because any reader would think "who the hell is the imbecile who made this incompetent translation? Oh, look, a Romanian!
And then, you could take the high road of letting other Romanians argue for the objectively superior translation to be used on
bitcoin.org, leaving no room for anybody to accuse you of this:
This is a matter of ego here: to be able to say "hey, my name nym is written on Bitcoin.org website! That is my nym there, not other's!". You see now the relevance?
I don’t mean to thrust on you a new project, much less suggest when you could do it. From experience in working with you on translations, I know how much time and effort you devote to such projects; and although the whitepaper is not long, translation of the technical details presents a formidable task. It would probably take you some time.
I do know that it would be for you a labour of love, and a thing that you would value independently of any forum political fights.
What say you?
Is there any possibility to contact anyone from that website to take down that ridiculous translation?
I did not see any option to contact the website...
It’s open-source. File an issue.
https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org