Validation & reviewer queue
Validation is how a translation gets confirmed by a human. A reviewer reads a cell and marks it as correct; enough validations and the project’s health rises and decay falls.
Validating a cell
Section titled “Validating a cell”If you have a reviewer (or higher) role, each cell offers a control to validate it — to say “this translation is correct.” Changed your mind? You can unvalidate it again.
Each validation a cell receives counts as an endorsement. As a cell collects the endorsements it needs, its decay falls and the project’s health rises.
Required validation count
Section titled “Required validation count”A project’s settings set how many validations a cell needs before it counts as fully reviewed — anywhere from 1 to 15 (the default is 1). Setting it to two or more lets a project require genuine peer review rather than a single sign-off.
- A cell isn’t fully validated until it reaches the required count.
- By default a cell’s translator can validate their own work, but a project can turn self-validation off — then a validation only counts if it comes from someone other than the cell’s last editor.
The reviewer queue
Section titled “The reviewer queue”Rather than hunting for unreviewed cells, reviewers use the reviewer queue, which surfaces cells that are unvalidated or under-validated, ordered by priority. Work down the queue and the project steadily gets confirmed.