Disable translation memory for newly added source strings

[tt-tims]

I want to disable the automatic translation of newly added source strings - even if it bears a strong similarity to an existing source string. I understand that this feature can be very useful and, in some circumstances, can save you a certain amount of translation work, but in our use case it is often rather confusing.

Therefore, I am looking for a way to simply leave new source strings blank. I have already searched through the documentation but have not found an option to disable this behavior. I am therefore afraid that there is currently no easy way to do this via web frontend.

I have considered whether it would be possible to write a custom add-on that binds to “EVENT_POST_ADD” and then simply clears the translation. However, I do not know whether the event is sent at the right time, or whether the automatic translation based on the translation memory will takes effect afterwards.

I would be grateful for any help.

[nijel]

The automatic translation is done via add-on that somebody had to install. Removing it will disable automatic translations. You can also customize the search query to exclude certain strings from the automatic translation. See https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/addons.html#automatic-translation

[tt-tims]

Thank you for your quick reply!

In my setup neither projects nor components have the "automatic translation" add-on enabled. This was one of the things I double-checked.

The original (one year old) string looks like this.

Yesterday a completely new source string was added and the translation was copied automatically from the original source string afterwards. See the history for the strings.

With no "automatic translation" add-on enabled this behavior is odd, isn't it?

If it is relevant, I use Weblate 5.12.2 in a docker environment.

[nijel]

The string was added in the repository, there is no automatic translation in Weblate. Perhaps you want to disable fuzzy matching in the msgmerge invocation?