[Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

[Béria Lima]

>
> * It's true that the translation request wasn't officially opened until
> March 10, but that still left two full weeks to translate.*
>

Good for people who have nothing more to do. For people like us who have
others things to do (like work and college), two weeks is not that much time
- even less if you are translating that on your own.

Another good thing to do for futures requests is do it from Translatewiki
(is easier translate there than in meta)
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2011/3/23 Casey Brown <lists em caseybrown.org>

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
> <amir.aharoni em mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > How much earlier should it be? I did Sue's letter mostly by myself and
> > it took me two full days. That's right: two full days. It was
> > announced two days in advance, so i spent an  entire weekend doing it.
> > I'm a hopeless Internet geek, but i do like to take a walk in the park
> > every now and then.
>
> I definitely think that the letter was way too rushed, but that is not
> the norm.  I can also understand the desire to try to be transparent
> and post notifications as soon as possible, so that's a different
> case.  Keep in mind, though, that the banners weren't put up for the
> languages we were missing translations from until a few days later...
> so there was definitely more time than just "two days".
>
> > As for the Editors survey, there are several
> > people working on the Hebrew translation of that gargantuan page and
> > we still haven't finished.
>
> I understand that it's a lot, and I really appreciate how hard you
> guys have been working on it (I've been watching your progress).
> However, I'm not sure it's really fair to say that there wasn't enough
> time.  The workspace was originally created on March 1, more than
> three weeks before the due date.  It's true that the translation
> request wasn't officially opened until March 10, but that still left
> two full weeks to translate.
>
> It's also important to keep in mind that the majority of the
> translation requests are not needed immediately.  Most of the pages,
> such as the ones on WikimediaFoundation.org can be done at your
> leisure.
>
> For the other requests, we *are* cognizant of the fact that people
> have lives and even if a translation might only take two hours to do,
> it might be hard for you to find two hours in a row to actually do it
> right away.  We do try to give as much time as possible.
>
> --
> Casey Brown
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