Err, guys - Eleri would be a she. :)
Arwel Parry
On 20 Nov 2010, at 01:57, "pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org"
<pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Ah, I thought he was referring to the link on the
centralnotice banners.
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From: "Casey Brown" <lists(a)caseybrown.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 7:51 pm
Subject: [Translators-l] Where are we with the fundraiser?
To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Eleri James <elerijms(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
The latest version of the appeal banner links to
the appeal letter, with donation
messages which are on the Fundraising 2010/core messages for translation at
meta, rather than the Donate interface extension messages at
translatewiki.net.
I completed the translation of the new core messages (including the text of the
latest site notice) 3 days ago, since it seemed urgent to translate something
which has already been put to use in the Fundraiser. Presumably the volunteers
who are able to publish these are just snowed under, but I want to request
publication anyway. It is really annoying to have the site message appear in
English.
I just opened up the Welsh Wikipedia and I see a Welsh banner
("Darllenwch: / Apêl bersonol gan / Jimmy Wales, sylfaenydd
Wicipedia") that links me to a Welsh donation page:
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/cy>.
When site notices were posted for all foundation
wikis together, it used to be
that a link to the translation pages on meta was provided on the site notice. The
site banner this year has no such link. Is this deliberate? Would you consider
putting a link up just for a few days, to encourage more translations?
Good point! That wasn't deliberate actually, I think we all just
forgot to update the local Meta-Wiki sitenotice to link to the
fundraising translation pages. I added a note, just like last year:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=2215352>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
-- It was deliberate. The issue was this: each
link that leads to anywhere but the donation
pages from the banner results in an "abandon" rate, which means that people got
distracted
from taking the single path that we need them to: directly to the donation page. Those
abandon rates are substantial... on the scale of hundreds of thousands of link follows.
I don't think Eleri is talking about links on *foundationwiki*, I
think he's talking about ones on *metawiki*. He wanted a link in the
Meta-Wiki sitenotice to the fundraising translation pages so that
visitors from other wikis looking for the materials to translate them
could find them more easily. :-)
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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
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