Automatic merge of Crowdin translations

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Goal

To have an automatic trigger of the pipeline created in #250314 so that we do not need manual intervention to get the translation MR ready to be merged.

Pre-requisites

This can be completed after we have:

1. Created a script(s) which can execute the steps we currently perform manually: #23256
2. Created a pipeline that can be triggered manually: #250314

Notes

Investigation was completed into how we can achieve this here: #227181 (comment 410472981)

It looks like we have two main options for the trigger:

Crowdin triggered

We can set up the Crowdin integration to regularly push to the i18n-master branch. The possible intervals from the Crowdin integration are:

1. 10 20 30 40 50 minutes
2. 1 3 6 12 24 hours

This will sync the translations, adding to the branch if it already exists or creating a new one if it's missing.

GitLab triggered

We can set up a Pipeline Schedule to trigger our own pipeline on any schedule we want.

This requires a target branch and currently we delete the master-i18n branch after every merge. It also doesn't look like there is an API endpoint on Crowdin for managing integrations. I think to get this working, we would have to leave the integration enabled and always have a master-i18n branch available (with a large number of commits).

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