copyedit pass on all Site Settings

config/locales/server.en.yml

@@ -625,62 +625,61 @@ en:
   site_settings:
     default_locale: "The default language of this Discourse instance (ISO 639-1 Code)"
     allow_user_locale: "Allow users to choose their own language interface preference"
-    min_post_length: "Minimum post length in characters"
+    min_post_length: "Minimum allowed post length in characters"
-    min_private_message_post_length: "Minimum post length in characters for private messages"
+    min_private_message_post_length: "Minimum allowed post length in characters for private messages"
-    max_post_length: "Maximum post length in characters"
+    max_post_length: "Maximum allowed post length in characters"
-    min_topic_title_length: "Minimum topic title length in characters"
+    min_topic_title_length: "Minimum allowed topic title length in characters"
-    max_topic_title_length: "Maximum topic title length in characters"
+    max_topic_title_length: "Maximum allowed topic title length in characters"
-    min_private_message_title_length: "Minimum title length for a private message in characters"
+    min_private_message_title_length: "Minimum allowed title length for a private message in characters"
-    min_search_term_length: "Minimum search term length in characters"
+    min_search_term_length: "Minimum valid search term length in characters"
     allow_uncategorized_topics: "Allow topics to be created without a category."
-    uncategorized_description: "The description of the uncategorized category. Leave blank if you don't want a description."
+    uncategorized_description: "The description of the uncategorized category. Leave blank for no description."
-    allow_duplicate_topic_titles: "Allow topics with identical titles"
+    allow_duplicate_topic_titles: "Allow topics with identical, duplicate titles."
     unique_posts_mins: "How many minutes before a user can make a post with the same content again"
     enforce_global_nicknames: "Enforce global username uniqueness (WARNING: only change this during initial setup)"
     discourse_org_access_key: "The access key used to access the Discourse Hub username registry at discourse.org"
-    educate_until_posts: "Show pop-up composer education panel until the user has made this many posts"
+    educate_until_posts: "When the user starts typing their first (n) new posts, show the pop-up new user education panel in the composer."
-    title: "Title of this site, will be used in the title tag and elsewhere"
+    title: "Brief title of this site, used in the title tag."
-    site_description: "Describe this forum in one sentence. This description will be used in the meta description tag."
+    site_description: "Describe this site in one sentence, used in the meta description tag."
-    contact_email: "The email address of someone who can be contacted about the site. Important notices from Discourse.org regarding critical updates may be sent to this address."
+    contact_email: "Email address of key contact for site. Important notices from discourse.org regarding critical updates may be sent to this address."
-    company_full_name: "The full name of the company that runs this site, used in legal documents like the /tos"
+    company_full_name: "The full name of the company that runs this site, used in legal documents like /tos and /privacy"
-    company_short_name: "The short name of the company that runs this site, used in legal documents like the /tos"
+    company_short_name: "The short name of the company that runs this site, used in legal documents like /tos and /privacy"
-    company_domain: "The domain name owned by the company that runs this site, used in legal documents like the /tos"
+    company_domain: "The domain name owned by the company that runs this site, used in legal documents like /tos and /privacy"
     queue_jobs: "DEVELOPER ONLY! WARNING! By default, queue jobs in sidekiq. If disabled, your site will be broken."
-    crawl_images: "Enable retrieving images from third party sources to insert width and height dimensions"
+    crawl_images: "Retrieve images from remote URLs to insert the correct width and height dimensions."
-    download_remote_images_to_local: "Download a copy of remote images hotlinked in posts"
+    download_remote_images_to_local: "Convert remote images to local images by downloading them; this prevents broken images."
-    download_remote_images_threshold: "Amount of minimum available disk space required to download remote images locally (in percent)"
+    download_remote_images_threshold: "Minimum disk space necessary to download remote images locally (in percent)"
-    disabled_image_download_domains: "A pipe-delimited list of domains from which linked images will never be downloaded."
+    disabled_image_download_domains: "Remote images will never be downloaded from these domains. Pipe-delimited list."
-    ninja_edit_window: "Number of seconds after posting where edits do not create a new version"
+    ninja_edit_window: "For (n) seconds after posting, editing will not create a new version in the post history."
-    post_edit_time_limit: "Amount of time in minutes in which posts can be edited and deleted by the author. Set to 0 to allow editing and deleting posts at any time."
+    post_edit_time_limit: "The author can edit or delete their post for (n) minutes after posting. Set to 0 for forever."
-    edit_history_visible_to_public: "Allow everyone to see previous versions of an edited post. When disabled, only staff members can view edit history."
+    edit_history_visible_to_public: "Allow everyone to see previous versions of an edited post. When disabled, only staff members can view."
-    delete_removed_posts_after: "Number of hours after which posts removed by the author will be deleted."
+    delete_removed_posts_after: "Posts removed by the author will be automatically deleted after (n) hours."
-    max_image_width: "Maximum allowed width of images in a post"
+    max_image_width: "Maximum thumbnail width of images in a post"
-    max_image_height: "Maximum allowed height of images in a post"
+    max_image_height: "Maximum thumbnail height of images in a post"
     category_featured_topics: "Number of topics displayed per category on the /categories page. After changing this value, it takes up to 15 minutes for the categories page to update."
     show_subcategory_list: "Show subcategory list instead of topic list when entering a category."
     fixed_category_positions: "If checked, you will be able to arrange categories into a fixed order. If unchecked, categories are listed in order of activity."
-    add_rel_nofollow_to_user_content: "Add rel nofollow to all submitted user content, except for internal links (including parent domains) changing this requires you update all your baked markdown with: \"rake posts:rebake\""
+    add_rel_nofollow_to_user_content: "Add rel nofollow to all submitted user content, except for internal links (including parent domains). If you change this, you must rebake all posts with: \"rake posts:rebake\""
     exclude_rel_nofollow_domains: "A pipe-delimited list of domains where nofollow is not added (tld.com will automatically allow sub.tld.com as well)"
 
-    post_excerpt_maxlength: "Maximum length in chars of a post's excerpt"
+    post_excerpt_maxlength: "Maximum length of a post excerpt / summary."
-    post_onebox_maxlength: "Maximum length of a oneboxed Discourse post"
+    post_onebox_maxlength: "Maximum length of a oneboxed Discourse post in characters."
-    onebox_domains_whitelist: "A list of domains to whitelist for oneboxing. (Example: eviltrout.com)"
+    onebox_domains_whitelist: "A list of domains to allow oneboxing for; these domains should support OpenGraph or oEmbed. Test them at http://iframely.com/debug"
-    category_post_template: "The post template used when you create a new category"
 
-    logo_url: "The logo for your site eg: http://example.com/logo.png"
+    logo_url: "The logo image at the top left of your site eg: http://example.com/logo.png"
-    digest_logo_url: "The logo used in your site's email digest. If left blank `logo_url` will be used. eg: http://example.com/logo.png"
+    digest_logo_url: "The alternate logo used at the top of your site's email digest. If left blank `logo_url` will be used. eg: http://example.com/logo.png"
-    logo_small_url: "The small logo for your site used when scrolling down on topics eg: http://example.com/logo-small.png"
+    logo_small_url: "The small logo image at the top left of your site, seen when scrolling down. eg: http://example.com/logo-small.png"
     favicon_url: "A favicon for your site, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon"
-    mobile_logo_url: "The logo used for mobile browsers. If left blank, `logo_url` will be used. eg: http://example.com/uploads/default/logo.png"
+    mobile_logo_url: "The fixed position logo image used at the top left of your mobile site. If left blank, `logo_url` will be used. eg: http://example.com/uploads/default/logo.png"
     apple_touch_icon_url: "Icon used for Apple touch devices. Recommended size is 144px by 144px."
 
     notification_email: "The from: email address used when sending all essential system emails. The domain specified here must have SPF, DKIM and reverse PTR records set correctly for email to arrive."
     email_custom_headers: "A pipe-delimited list of custom email headers"
     use_https: "Should the full url for the site (Discourse.base_url) be http or https? DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS HTTPS IS ALREADY SET UP AND WORKING!"
-    summary_score_threshold: "The minimum score of a post to be included in the 'summary'"
+    summary_score_threshold: "The minimum score required for a post to be included in 'Summarize This Topic'"
-    summary_posts_required: "Minimum posts in a topic before 'summary' mode is enabled"
+    summary_posts_required: "Minimum posts in a topic before 'Summarize This Topic' is enabled"
-    summary_likes_required: "Minimum likes in a topic before the 'summary' mode will be enabled"
+    summary_likes_required: "Minimum likes in a topic before 'Summarize This Topic' is enabled"
-    summary_percent_filter: "When a user clicks summary, show the top % of posts"
+    summary_percent_filter: "When a user clicks 'Summarize This Topic', show the top % of posts"
     enable_private_messages: "Allow basic (1) trust level users to create private messages and reply to private messages"
 
     enable_long_polling: "Message bus used for notification can use long polling"
@@ -692,52 +691,52 @@ en:
     new_topic_duration_minutes: "Global default number of minutes a topic is considered new, users can override (-1 for always, -2 for last visit)"
 
     flags_required_to_hide_post: "Number of flags that cause a post to be automatically hidden and PM sent to the user (0 for never)"
-    cooldown_minutes_after_hiding_posts: "Number of minutes a user must wait before they can edit a post hidden via flagging"
+    cooldown_minutes_after_hiding_posts: "Number of minutes a user must wait before they can edit a post hidden via community flagging"
 
     max_topics_in_first_day: "The maximum number of topics a user is allowed to create in their first day on the site"
     max_replies_in_first_day: "The maximum number of replies a user is allowed to create in their first day on the site"
 
-    num_flags_to_block_new_user: "If a new user's posts get this many spam flags from num_users_to_block_new_user different users, hide all their posts and prevent future posting. 0 disables this feature."
+    num_flags_to_block_new_user: "If a new user's posts get this many spam flags from num_users_to_block_new_user different users, hide all their posts and prevent future posting. 0 to disable."
-    num_users_to_block_new_user: "If a new user's posts get num_flags_to_block_new_user spam flags from this many different users, hide all their posts and prevent future posting. 0 disables this feature."
+    num_users_to_block_new_user: "If a new user's posts get num_flags_to_block_new_user spam flags from this many different users, hide all their posts and prevent future posting. 0 to disable."
     notify_mods_when_user_blocked: "If a user is automatically blocked, send a message to all moderators."
-    flag_sockpuppets: "If a new user (i.e., registered in the last 24 hours) who started a topic and a new user who replies in that topic are at the same IP address, both their posts will automatically be flagged as spam."
+    flag_sockpuppets: "If a new user replies to a topic from the same IP address as the new user who started the topic, flag both of their posts as potential spam."
 
-    traditional_markdown_linebreaks: "Use traditional linebreaks in Markdown, which require two trailing spaces for a linebreak"
+    traditional_markdown_linebreaks: "Use traditional linebreaks in Markdown, which require two trailing spaces for a linebreak."
-    post_undo_action_window_mins: "Number of seconds users are allowed to reverse actions on a post (like, flag, etc)"
+    post_undo_action_window_mins: "Number of seconds users are allowed to undo recent actions on a post (like, flag, etc)."
-    must_approve_users: "Admins must approve all new user signups before they gain access"
+    must_approve_users: "Staff must approve all new user accounts before they are allowed to access the site."
     ga_tracking_code: "Google analytics (ga.js) tracking code code, eg: UA-12345678-9; see http://google.com/analytics"
     ga_domain_name: "Google analytics (ga.js) domain name, eg: mysite.com; see http://google.com/analytics"
     ga_universal_tracking_code: "Google Universal Analytics (analytics.js) tracking code code, eg: UA-12345678-9; see http://google.com/analytics"
     ga_universal_domain_name: "Google Universal Analytics (analytics.js) domain name, eg: mysite.com; see http://google.com/analytics"
-    enable_escaped_fragments: "Fall back to Google's Ajax-Crawling API if a crawler is not detected."
+    enable_escaped_fragments: "Fall back to Google's Ajax-Crawling API if no webcrawler is detected. See https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en"
     enable_noscript_support: "Enable standard webcrawler search engine support via the noscript tag"
     allow_moderators_to_create_categories: "Allow moderators to create new categories"
     top_menu: "Determine which items appear in the homepage navigation, and in what order. Example latest|new|unread|starred|categories|top|read|posted"
     post_menu: "Determine which items appear on the post menu, and in what order. Example like|edit|flag|delete|share|bookmark|reply"
-    post_menu_hidden_items: "The menu items to hide by default in the post menu unless an ellipsis is clicked on."
+    post_menu_hidden_items: "The menu items to hide by default in the post menu unless an expansion ellipsis is clicked on."
     share_links: "Determine which items appear on the share dialog, and in what order."
     track_external_right_clicks: "Track external links that are right clicked (eg: open in new tab) disabled by default because it rewrites URLs"
-    topics_per_page: "How many topics loaded by default on the topics list page, and when loading more topics"
+    topics_per_page: "How many topics are loaded by default on the topic list, and when scrolling down to load more topics"
-    posts_per_page: "How many posts loaded by default on a topic page, and when loading more posts"
+    posts_per_page: "How many posts are loaded by default on a topic, and when scrolling down to load more posts"
-    site_contact_username: "Username for the author of automated private messages sent by the forum; if left blank the default System account will be used."
+    site_contact_username: "All automated private messages sent by the forum will be from this user; if left blank the default System account will be used."
-    send_welcome_message: "Do new users get a welcome private message?"
+    send_welcome_message: "Send all new users a welcome private message with a quick start guide."
-    suppress_reply_directly_below: "Don't show reply count on a post when there is a single reply directly below"
+    suppress_reply_directly_below: "Don't show the expandable reply count on a post when there is only a single reply directly below this post."
-    suppress_reply_directly_above: "Don't show in-reply-to on a post when there is a single reply directly above"
+    suppress_reply_directly_above: "Don't show the expandable in-reply-to on a post when there is only a single reply directly above this post."
 
-    topics_per_period_in_top_summary: "How many topics loaded on the top topics summary"
+    topics_per_period_in_top_summary: "Number of top topics shown in the default top topics summary."
-    topics_per_period_in_top_page: "How many topics loaded on the top topics page"
+    topics_per_period_in_top_page: "Number of top topics shown on the expanded 'Show More' top topics."
-    redirect_users_to_top_page: "Automatically redirect new & long-time-no-see users to top page"
+    redirect_users_to_top_page: "Automatically redirect new and long absent users to the top page."
 
-    email_token_valid_hours: "How long are 'forgot password' / 'activate account' tokens valid for"
+    email_token_valid_hours: "Forgot password / activate account tokens are valid for (n) hours."
-    email_token_grace_period_hours: "How long are 'forgot password' / 'activate account' tokens valid for, after being redeemed"
+    email_token_grace_period_hours: "Forgot password / activate account tokens are still valid for a grace period of (n) hours after being redeemed."
 
     enable_badges: "Enable the badge system (experimental)"
 
-    allow_index_in_robots_txt: "Site should be indexed by search engines (update robots.txt)"
+    allow_index_in_robots_txt: "Specify in robots.txt that this site is allowed to be indexed by web search engines."
-    email_domains_blacklist: "A pipe-delimited list of email domains that are not allowed. Example: mailinator.com|trashmail.net"
+    email_domains_blacklist: "A list of email domains that users are not allowed to register accounts with. Example: mailinator.com trashmail.net"
-    email_domains_whitelist: "A pipe-delimited list of email domains that users may register with. WARNING: Users with email domains other than those listed will not be allowed."
+    email_domains_whitelist: "A list of email domains that users MUST register accounts with. WARNING: Users with email domains other than those listed will not be allowed!"
     version_checks: "Ping the Discourse Hub for version updates and show version messages on the /admin dashboard"
-    new_version_emails: "Send an email to the contact_email address when a new version is available."
+    new_version_emails: "Send an email to the contact_email address when a new version of Discourse is available."
 
     port: "DEVELOPER ONLY! WARNING! Use this HTTP port rather than the default of port 80. Leave blank for default of 80."
     force_hostname: "DEVELOPER ONLY! WARNING! Specify a hostname in the URL. Leave blank for default."
@@ -747,24 +746,24 @@ en:
 
     # TODO: perhaps we need a way of protecting these settings for hosted solution, global settings ...
 
-    invite_only: "Public registration is disabled, new users must be invited"
+    invite_only: "Public registration is disabled, all new users must be explicitly invited by other members or staff."
 
-    login_required: "Require authentication to read posts"
+    login_required: "Require authentication to read content on this site, disallow anonymous access."
 
-    min_username_length: "Minimum username length. (Does not apply if global nickname uniqueness is forced)"
+    min_username_length: "Minimum username length in characters."
-    max_username_length: "Maximum username length. (Does not apply if global nickname uniqueness is forced)"
+    max_username_length: "Maximum username length in characters."
 
     min_password_length: "Minimum password length."
-    block_common_passwords: "Don't allow passwords that are in the 10000 most common passwords."
+    block_common_passwords: "Don't allow passwords that are in the 10,000 most common passwords."
 
-    enable_sso: "Enable single sign on via an external site (Note: Disables invites)"
+    enable_sso: "Enable single sign on via an external site (Note: disables invites)"
     sso_url: "URL of single sign on endpoint"
     sso_secret: "Secret string used to encrypt/decrypt SSO information, be sure it is 10 chars or longer"
     sso_overrides_email: "Overrides local email with external site email from SSO payload (WARNING: discrepancies can occur due to normalization of local emails)"
     sso_overrides_username: "Overrides local username with external site username from SSO payload (WARNING: discrepancies can occur due to differences in username length/requirements)"
     sso_overrides_name: "Overrides local name with external site name from SSO payload (WARNING: discrepancies can occur due to normalization of local names)"
 
-    enable_local_logins: "Enable traditional, local username and password authentication. (Note: Required for invites)"
+    enable_local_logins: "Enable local username and password login based accounts. (Note: this must be enabled for invites to work)"
     enable_google_logins: "(deprecated) Enable Google authentication. This is the OpenID method of authentication which Google has deprecated. New installs will NOT work with this. Use Google Oauth2 instead. Existing installs must move to Google Oauth2 by April 20, 2015."
     enable_yahoo_logins: "Enable Yahoo authentication"
 
@@ -786,52 +785,52 @@ en:
 
     allow_restore: "Allow restore, which can replace ALL site data! Leave false unless you plan to restore a backup"
     maximum_backups: "The maximum amount of backups to keep on disk. Older backups are automatically deleted"
-    backup_daily: "Automatically create a site backup once a day"
+    backup_daily: "Automatically create a site backup once a day."
     enable_s3_backups: "Upload backups to S3 when complete. Make sure you have filled in your s3 credentials."
     s3_backup_bucket: "The remote bucket to hold backups. WARNING: Make sure it is a private bucket."
 
     active_user_rate_limit_secs: "How frequently we update the 'last_seen_at' field, in seconds"
     previous_visit_timeout_hours: "How long a visit lasts before we consider it the 'previous' visit, in hours"
 
-    rate_limit_create_topic: "After creating a topic, users must wait this many seconds before they can create another topic"
+    rate_limit_create_topic: "After creating a topic, users must wait (n) seconds before creating another topic."
-    rate_limit_create_post: "After posting, users must wait this many seconds before they can create another post"
+    rate_limit_create_post: "After posting, users must wait (n) seconds before creating another post."
 
-    max_likes_per_day: "Maximum number of likes per user per day"
+    max_likes_per_day: "Maximum number of likes per user per day."
-    max_flags_per_day: "Maximum number of flags per user per day"
+    max_flags_per_day: "Maximum number of flags per user per day."
-    max_bookmarks_per_day: "Maximum number of bookmarks per user per day"
+    max_bookmarks_per_day: "Maximum number of bookmarks per user per day."
-    max_edits_per_day: "Maximum number of edits per user per day"
+    max_edits_per_day: "Maximum number of edits per user per day."
-    max_stars_per_day: "Maximum number of topics that can be starred per user per day"
+    max_stars_per_day: "Maximum number of topics that can be starred per user per day."
-    max_topics_per_day: "Maximum number of topics a user can create per day"
+    max_topics_per_day: "Maximum number of topics a user can create per day."
-    max_private_messages_per_day: "The maximum amount of private messages users can create per day"
+    max_private_messages_per_day: "Maximum number of private messages users can create per day."
 
-    suggested_topics: "Number of suggested topics shown at the bottom of a topic"
+    suggested_topics: "Number of suggested topics shown at the bottom of a topic."
-    limit_suggested_to_category: "Only show topics from the current category in suggested topics"
+    limit_suggested_to_category: "Only show topics from the current category in suggested topics."
 
-    clean_up_uploads: "Remove orphaned uploads to prevent illegal hosting. WARNING: you might want to make a backup of your /uploads directory before enabled this setting."
+    clean_up_uploads: "Remove orphan unreferenced uploads to prevent illegal hosting. WARNING: you may want to back up of your /uploads directory before enabling this setting."
     clean_orphan_uploads_grace_period_hours: "Grace period (in hours) before an orphan upload is removed."
     purge_deleted_uploads_grace_period_days: "Grace period (in days) before a deleted upload is erased."
-    enable_s3_uploads: "Place uploads on Amazon S3"
+    enable_s3_uploads: "Place uploads on Amazon S3 storage."
     s3_upload_bucket: "The Amazon S3 bucket name that files will be uploaded into. WARNING: must be lowercase, no periods."
-    s3_access_key_id: "The Amazon S3 access key id that will be used to upload images"
+    s3_access_key_id: "The Amazon S3 access key id that will be used to upload images."
-    s3_secret_access_key: "The Amazon S3 secret access key that will be used to upload images"
+    s3_secret_access_key: "The Amazon S3 secret access key that will be used to upload images."
-    s3_region: "The Amazon S3 region name that will be used to upload images"
+    s3_region: "The Amazon S3 region name that will be used to upload images."
 
-    enable_flash_video_onebox: "Enable embedding of swf and flv links in oneboxes. WARNING: may introduce a security risk"
+    enable_flash_video_onebox: "Enable embedding of swf and flv (Adobe Flash) links in oneboxes. WARNING: may introduce security risks."
 
-    default_invitee_trust_level: "Default trust level (0-4) for invited users"
+    default_invitee_trust_level: "Default trust level (0-4) for invited users."
-    default_trust_level: "Default trust level (0-4) for users"
+    default_trust_level: "Default trust level (0-4) for all new users."
 
-    basic_requires_topics_entered: "How many topics a new user must enter before promotion to basic (1) trust level"
+    basic_requires_topics_entered: "How many topics a new user must enter before promotion to basic (1) trust level."
-    basic_requires_read_posts: "How many posts a new user must read before promotion to basic (1) trust level"
+    basic_requires_read_posts: "How many posts a new user must read before promotion to basic (1) trust level."
-    basic_requires_time_spent_mins: "How many minutes a new user must read posts before promotion to basic (1) trust level"
+    basic_requires_time_spent_mins: "How many minutes a new user must read posts before promotion to basic (1) trust level."
 
-    regular_requires_topics_entered: "How many topics a basic user must enter before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_topics_entered: "How many topics a basic user must enter before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
-    regular_requires_read_posts: "How many posts a basic user must read before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_read_posts: "How many posts a basic user must read before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
-    regular_requires_time_spent_mins: "How many minutes a basic user must read posts before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_time_spent_mins: "How many minutes a basic user must read posts before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
-    regular_requires_days_visited: "How many days a basic user must visit the site before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_days_visited: "How many days a basic user must visit the site before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
-    regular_requires_likes_received: "How many likes a basic user must receive before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_likes_received: "How many likes a basic user must receive before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
-    regular_requires_likes_given: "How many likes a basic user must cast before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_likes_given: "How many likes a basic user must cast before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
-    regular_requires_topic_reply_count: "How many topics a basic user must reply to before promotion to regular (2) trust level"
+    regular_requires_topic_reply_count: "How many topics a basic user must reply to before promotion to regular (2) trust level."
 
     leader_requires_days_visited: "Minimum number of days that a user needs to have visited the site in the last 100 days to qualify for promotion to leader (3) trust level. (0 to 100)"
     leader_requires_topics_replied_to: "Minimum number of topics a user needs to have replied to in the last 100 days to qualify for promotion to leader (3) trust level. (0 or higher)"
@@ -846,40 +845,40 @@ en:
 
     min_trust_to_edit_wiki_post: "The minimum trust level required to edit post marked as wiki."
 
-    newuser_max_links: "How many links a new user can add to a post"
+    newuser_max_links: "How many links a new user can add to a post."
-    newuser_max_images: "How many images a new user can add to a post"
+    newuser_max_images: "How many images a new user can add to a post."
-    newuser_max_attachments: "How many attachments a new user can add to a post"
+    newuser_max_attachments: "How many attachments a new user can add to a post."
-    newuser_max_mentions_per_post: "Maximum number of @name notifications a new user can use in a post"
+    newuser_max_mentions_per_post: "Maximum number of @name notifications a new user can use in a post."
-    newuser_max_replies_per_topic: "Maximum number of replies a new user can make in a single topic until someone replies to them"
+    newuser_max_replies_per_topic: "Maximum number of replies a new user can make in a single topic until someone replies to them."
-    max_mentions_per_post: "Maximum number of @name notifications you can use in a post"
+    max_mentions_per_post: "Maximum number of @name notifications anyone can use in a post."
 
-    create_thumbnails: "Create thumbnails for lightboxed images"
+    create_thumbnails: "Create thumbnails and lightbox images that are too large to fit in a post."
 
-    email_time_window_mins: "How many minutes we wait before sending reply notification emails, to give users a chance to edit and finalize their posts"
+    email_time_window_mins: "Wait (n) minutes before sending any notification emails, to give users a chance to edit and finalize their posts."
-    email_posts_context: "How many prior replies to include as context in notification emails"
+    email_posts_context: "How many prior replies to include as context in notification emails."
-    flush_timings_secs: "How frequently we flush timing data to the server, in seconds"
+    flush_timings_secs: "How frequently we flush timing data to the server, in seconds."
-    max_word_length: "The maximum allowed word length, in characters, in a topic title"
+    max_word_length: "The maximum allowed word length, in characters, in a topic title."
-    title_min_entropy: "The minimum allowed entropy (unique characters, non-english count for more) required for a topic title"
+    title_min_entropy: "The minimum entropy (unique characters, non-english count for more) required for a topic title."
-    body_min_entropy: "The minimum allowed entropy (unique characters, non-english count for more) required for a post body"
+    body_min_entropy: "The minimum entropy (unique characters, non-english count for more) required for a post body."
 
     title_fancy_entities: "Convert common ASCII characters to fancy HTML entities in topic titles, ala SmartyPants http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/"
 
-    min_title_similar_length: "The minimum length of a title before it will be checked for similar topics"
+    min_title_similar_length: "The minimum length of a title before it will be checked for similar topics."
-    min_body_similar_length: "The minimum length of a post's body before it will be checked for similar topics"
+    min_body_similar_length: "The minimum length of a post's body before it will be checked for similar topics."
 
-    category_colors: "A pipe (|) separated list of hexadecimal color values allowed for categories"
+    category_colors: "A list of hexadecimal color values allowed for categories."
 
-    max_image_size_kb: "The maximum size of images we allow users to upload in kB - configure the limit in nginx (client_max_body_size) / apache or proxy as well."
+    max_image_size_kb: "The maximum image upload size in kB. This must be configured in nginx (client_max_body_size) / apache or proxy as well."
-    max_attachment_size_kb: "The maximum size of files we allow users to upload in kB - configure the limit in nginx (client_max_body_size) / apache or proxy as well."
+    max_attachment_size_kb: "The maximum attachment files upload size in kB. This must be configured in nginx (client_max_body_size) / apache or proxy as well."
-    authorized_extensions: "A pipe (|) separated list of file extensions allowed for upload ('*' for enabling all file types)"
+    authorized_extensions: "A list of file extensions allowed for upload (use '*' to enable all file types)"
-    max_similar_results: "How many similar topics to show a user while they are composing a new topic"
+    max_similar_results: "How many similar topics to show above the editor when composing a new topic. Comparison is based on title and body."
 
     title_prettify: "Prevent common title typos and errors, including all caps, lowercase first character, multiple ! and ?, extra . at end, etc."
-    title_sanitize: "Remove html tags from the title"
+    title_sanitize: "Remove html tags from the title."
 
-    topic_views_heat_low: "The number of views after which a topic's heat level is low."
+    topic_views_heat_low: "After this many views, the topic is slightly highlighted."
-    topic_views_heat_medium: "The number of views after which a topic's heat level is medium."
+    topic_views_heat_medium: "After this many views, the topic is moderately highlighted."
-    topic_views_heat_high: "The number of views after which a topic's heat level is high."
+    topic_views_heat_high: "After this many views, the topic is strongly highlighted."
 
     faq_url: "If you have a FAQ hosted elsewhere that you want to use, provide the full URL here."
     tos_url: "If you have a Terms of Service document hosted elsewhere that you want to use, provide the full URL here."
@@ -887,82 +886,82 @@ en:
 
     newuser_spam_host_threshold: "How many times a new user can post a link to the same host within their `newuser_spam_host_posts` posts before being considered spam."
 
-    white_listed_spam_host_domains: "A pipe-delimited list of domains excluded from spam host testing, new users will be able to create an unrestricted count of posts with links to this domain"
+    white_listed_spam_host_domains: "A list of domains excluded from spam host testing. New users will never be restricted from creating posts with links to these domains."
-    staff_like_weight: "Extra weighting factor given to likes when performed by staff."
+    staff_like_weight: "How much extra weighting factor to give staff likes."
 
-    levenshtein_distance_spammer_emails: "Number of characters different from a known spammer email."
+    levenshtein_distance_spammer_emails: "When matching spammer emails, number of characters difference that will still allow a fuzzy match."
 
-    reply_by_email_enabled: "Enable replying to topics via email"
+    reply_by_email_enabled: "Enable replying to topics via email."
     reply_by_email_address: "Template for reply by email incoming email address, for example: %{reply_key}@reply.example.com or replies+%{reply_key}@example.com"
 
-    pop3s_polling_enabled: "Poll via POP3S for email replies"
+    pop3s_polling_enabled: "Poll via POP3S for email replies."
-    pop3s_polling_insecure: "Poll using plain text POP3 without SSL"
+    pop3s_polling_insecure: "Poll using plain text POP3 without SSL."
     pop3s_polling_period_mins: "The period in minutes between checking the POP3S account for email. NOTE: requires restart."
-    pop3s_polling_port: "The port to poll a POP3S account on"
+    pop3s_polling_port: "The port to poll a POP3S account on."
-    pop3s_polling_host: "The host to poll for email via POP3S"
+    pop3s_polling_host: "The host to poll for email via POP3S."
-    pop3s_polling_username: "The username for the POP3S account to poll for email"
+    pop3s_polling_username: "The username for the POP3S account to poll for email."
-    pop3s_polling_password: "The password for the POP3S account to poll for email"
+    pop3s_polling_password: "The password for the POP3S account to poll for email."
-    email_in: "Allow users to post new topics via email"
+    email_in: "Allow users to post new topics via email."
     email_in_address: "The email address the users can post new topics to. None means users can't post globally."
-    email_in_min_trust: "The minimum trust level an users needs to have to be allowed to post new topics via email"
+    email_in_min_trust: "The minimum trust level a user needs to have to be allowed to post new topics via email."
-    email_in_category: "The category new emails are posted into"
+    email_in_category: "The category new emails are posted into."
-    email_prefix: "The [label] used in the subject of emails. It will default to 'title' if not set"
+    email_prefix: "The [label] used in the subject of emails. It will default to 'title' if not set."
     email_site_title: "The title of the site used as the sender of emails from the site. Default to 'title' if not set. If your 'title' contains characters that are not allowed in email sender strings, use this setting."
 
-    minimum_topics_similar: "How many topics need to exist in the database before similar topics are presented."
+    minimum_topics_similar: "How many topics need to exist before similar topics are presented when composing new topics."
 
-    relative_date_duration: "Number of days after posting where post dates will be shown as relative instead of absolute. Examples: relative date: 7d, absolute date: 20 Feb"
+    relative_date_duration: "Number of days after posting where post dates will be shown as relative (7d) instead of absolute (20 Feb)."
-    delete_user_max_post_age: "The maximum age of a user's first post, in days, which allows a user to be deleted."
+    delete_user_max_post_age: "Don't allow deleting users whose first post is older than (x) days."
     delete_all_posts_max: "The maximum number of posts that can be deleted at once with the Delete All Posts button. If a user has more than this many posts, the posts cannot all be deleted at once and the user can't be deleted."
     username_change_period: "The number of days after registration that accounts can change their username (0 to disallow username change)."
     email_editable: "Allow users to change their e-mail address after registration."
 
-    allow_uploaded_avatars: "Allow users to upload their custom avatars"
+    allow_uploaded_avatars: "Allow users to upload custom avatars."
-    allow_animated_avatars: "Allow users to use animated gif for avatars. WARNING: it is highly recommended to run the avatars:refresh rake task after changing that setting."
+    allow_animated_avatars: "Allow users to use animated gif avatars. WARNING: run the avatars:refresh rake task after changing this setting."
-    automatically_download_gravatars: "Download gravatars for users upon account creation or email change"
+    automatically_download_gravatars: "Download Gravatars for users upon account creation or email change."
-    digest_topics: "The maximum amount of topics to display in an email digest"
+    digest_topics: "The maximum number of topics to display in the email digest."
-    digest_min_excerpt_length: "How many characters we're aiming for for each post in the email digest"
+    digest_min_excerpt_length: "Minimum post excerpt in the email digest, in characters."
     default_digest_email_frequency: "How often users receive digest emails by default. They can change this setting in their preferences."
     default_external_links_in_new_tab: "Open external links in a new tab. Users can change this in their preferences."
 
-    detect_custom_avatars: "Whether or not to check that users have uploaded custom avatars"
+    detect_custom_avatars: "Whether or not to check that users have uploaded custom avatars."
-    max_daily_gravatar_crawls: "The maximum amount of times Discourse will check gravatar for custom avatars in a day"
+    max_daily_gravatar_crawls: "Maximum number of times Discourse will check Gravatar for custom avatars in a day"
     public_user_custom_fields: "A whitelist of custom fields for a user that can be shown publically."
 
-    allow_profile_backgrounds: "Allows users to upload profile backgrounds"
+    allow_profile_backgrounds: "Allow users to upload profile backgrounds."
 
-    sequential_replies_threshold: "The amount of posts a user has to make in a row in a topic before being notified"
+    sequential_replies_threshold: "Number posts a user has to make in a row in a topic before being reminded about too many sequential replies. "
 
     enable_mobile_theme: "Mobile devices use a mobile-friendly theme, with the ability to switch to the full site. Disable this if you want to use a custom stylesheet that is fully responsive."
 
-    dominating_topic_minimum_percent: "What percentage of posts a user has to make in a topic before we consider it dominating."
+    dominating_topic_minimum_percent: "What percentage of posts a user has to make in a topic before being reminded about overly dominating a topic."
-    suppress_uncategorized_badge: "Don't show the badge for uncategorized topics in topic lists"
+    suppress_uncategorized_badge: "Don't show the badge for uncategorized topics in topic lists."
 
     global_notice: "Display an URGENT, EMERGENCY global banner notice to all visitors, change to blank to hide it (HTML allowed)."
 
     disable_edit_notifications: "Used to disable edit notifications when you activate the 'download_remote_images_to_local' site setting."
 
-    enable_names: "Allow users to show their full names"
+    enable_names: "Allow showing user full names. Disable to hide full names."
-    display_name_on_posts: "Also show a user's full name on their posts"
+    display_name_on_posts: "Show a user's full name on their posts in addition to their @username."
-    invites_shown: "Maximum invites shown on a user page"
+    invites_shown: "Maximum invites shown on the user page."
     short_progress_text_threshold: "After the number of posts in a topic goes above this number, the progress bar will only show the current post number. If you change the progress bar's width, you may need to change this value."
     default_code_lang: "Default programming language syntax highlighting applied to GitHub code blocks (lang-auto, ruby, python etc.)"
     warn_reviving_old_topic_age: "When someone starts replying to a topic older than this many days, a warning will be displayed to discourage the user from reviving an old discussion. Disable by setting to 0."
-    autohighlight_all_code: "Apply code highlighting to all preformatted code blocks even when they didn't specify the language"
+    autohighlight_all_code: "Force apply code highlighting to all preformatted code blocks even when they didn't explicitly specify the language."
 
-    embeddable_host: "Host that can embed the comments from this Discourse forum"
+    embeddable_host: "Host that can embed the comments from this Discourse forum."
-    feed_polling_enabled: "EMBEDDING ONLY: Whether to embed a RSS/ATOM feed as posts"
+    feed_polling_enabled: "EMBEDDING ONLY: Whether to embed a RSS/ATOM feed as posts."
-    feed_polling_url: "EMBEDDING ONLY: URL of RSS/ATOM feed to embed"
+    feed_polling_url: "EMBEDDING ONLY: URL of RSS/ATOM feed to embed."
-    embed_by_username: "Discourse username of the user who creates the embedded topics"
+    embed_by_username: "Discourse username of the user who creates the embedded topics."
-    embed_username_key_from_feed: "Key to pull discourse username from feed"
+    embed_username_key_from_feed: "Key to pull discourse username from feed."
-    embed_truncate: "Truncate the embedded posts"
+    embed_truncate: "Truncate the embedded posts."
-    embed_category: "Category of embedded topics"
+    embed_category: "Category of embedded topics."
-    embed_post_limit: "Maximum number of posts to embed"
+    embed_post_limit: "Maximum number of posts to embed."
-    embed_whitelist_selector: "css selector for elements that are allowed in embeds"
+    embed_whitelist_selector: "CSS selector for elements that are allowed in embeds."
-    embed_blacklist_selector: "css selector for elements that are removed from embeds"
+    embed_blacklist_selector: "CSS selector for elements that are removed from embeds."
     tos_accept_required: "If enabled, users will need to check a box on the signup form to confirm that they accept the terms of service. Edit 'Signup Form: Terms of Service Message' in the Content tab to change the message."
     notify_about_flags_after: "If there are flags that haven't been handled after this many hours, send an email to the contact_email. Set to 0 to disable."
-    enable_cdn_js_debugging: "Allow /logs to display proper errors by adding crossorigin permissions on all js includes"
+    enable_cdn_js_debugging: "Allow /logs to display proper errors by adding crossorigin permissions on all js includes."
     show_create_topics_notice: "If the site has fewer than 5 public topics, show a notice asking admins to create some topics."
 
     errors:

config/site_settings.yml

@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ rate_limits:
     default:
       test: 0
       default: 5
-  rate_limit_create_topic: 5
+  rate_limit_create_topic: 15
   rate_limit_create_post: 5
   max_topics_per_day: 20
   max_private_messages_per_day: 20