They finally made Facebook as Gaeilge! But how many people will use it? I switched it... Is maith liom É!

I've been I using FB in Irish for a long time now :)
But there are several mistakes in the translations, I don't know who translated it.

An slua, go bhfios dom. Níl fhios agam cé rinne cigireacht air.

Yes, I tried to turn my facebook to Gaeilge earlier, but it hadn't been translated yet. It was made by the public. It was basically a facebook group, free to join, that went through a process established by facebook that translated everything. Last I checked they were about 2/3s of the way through it. I only just now saw they had finished the process. What mistranslations did you notice? I am too early in my learning of Gaeilge to recognize mistakes to it. I thought using it as Gaeilge would help me learn the language.

Yeah, the translation is crowdsourced (as in anyone can participate). Inevitably, it's full of mistakes as a result... (Other languages' translations are also crowdsourced, e.g., Spanish, French, but they have many more native speakers &c. participating in the translation process) It's never actually complete, either: Facebook continually adds, removes, and changes features, which means new strings of text need to be translated all the time. One of the problems is that bad translations can't necessarily be simply "fixed"—the best you can do is to provide your own translation, vote the bad translation down, and hope other people vote the good one up. Again, the vast majority of people participating in the translation process are not native speakers... I'm not actually sure that using Facebook in Irish would help you learn Irish at all!

Well, using FB in Irish is nice - btw it would be nicer if there weren't mistakes like that, when I use it I often sigh when I see what is written...

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the best you can do is to provide your own translation, vote the bad translation down, and hope other people vote the good one up.

well if they have voted for a bad translation it isn't sure they'll see the difference between correct Irish and wrong Irish :)