Modified Translator Overwritten

guitarzxt
I have modified the Wikisource translator to pull the correct information from specific pages on wikisource. Every few weeks this reverts back to the old one. If I uninstall the Chrome extension and add it back again, it usually fixes the problem. Now people in my project that are using Firefox are having the same problem. I imagine this has something to do with a recent update.

The only thing I can figure is that every time Zotero updates it overwrites my translator with the standard one. So, I want to know how to do one of two things:

1. Stop Zotero from overwriting my translator somehow.

or

2. Upload my translator to Zotero so that everyone can befit from this translator, and when things update, it will just update with the translator I wrote.

Are either of these possible? If so, how?
  • adamsmith
    1. Change the translator ID and lower the priority of your custom translator to one below that of the WikiSource translator (otherwise you'll have both and which one runs will be rather random).

    2. Generally yes, via a pull request on the existing translator on https://github.com/zotero/translators. We'd have to obviously evaluate your changes and see if they make sense globally, but generally we're always happy for contributions.
  • guitarzxt
    How do I change the priority?
  • adamsmith
    it's in the header of the translator (or on the data tab of scaffold).
    E.g. https://github.com/guitarzxt/translators/blob/patch-1/Wikisource.js#L8 Line 8 here.
  • guitarzxt
    Thanks.

    I submitted the three translators to github and made pull requests.

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