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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear list members.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawik[1]. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) and internationalisation (i18n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages on your Wikipedia to use your language for your language profile, but if you would log in to for example the English language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as at the Wikipedia of your native language.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki[2], create an account[3] and request translator priviledges[4]. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on [[Localization_statistics|meta]] and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki[5].</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If you have any further questions, please let me know[6]. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network[7] in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we would be happy to help you get started.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Obviously we need people from the smaller communities and I have posted this message at the village pumps that I know of, i.e. that are in a list on meta. If you are a native writer of a smaller language, or know any that worked on, or are working on translation of the MediaWiki interface, please do not hesitatie to refer people to Betawiki. This message, as posted at Village Pumps, can be copied from Betawiki[8].</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon!</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers! Siebrand[9]</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oh, apologies for the spam. I'm trying to get more traffic for Nikerabbit's excellent service *and* have you make a better MediaWiki.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">P.s. Some of us at Betawiki would like to have the Translator extension integrated into Incubator, which would give the i18n of MediaWiki related messages even more momentum. If you have any control over what the Wikimedia devs do with their time, please try and get adding Translator functionality to Incubator wiki higher on their list of priorities… ;)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[1] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Etusivu"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Etusivu</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[2] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Translating:Intro"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Translating:Intro</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[3] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/?title=Toiminnot:Kirjaudu_sis%C3%A4%C3%A4n&type=signup&uselang=en"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/?title=Toiminnot:Kirjaudu_sis%C3%A4%C3%A4n&type=signup&uselang=en</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[4]</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Betawiki:Rights"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Betawiki:Rights</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="nl"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[5] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Translating:Languages"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Translating:Languages</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[6] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:Siebrand"><SPAN LANG="nl"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/</FONT></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Overleg_gebruiker:Siebrand</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="nl"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="nl"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[7] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC"><SPAN LANG="nl"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="nl"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[8] </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/K%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4:Siebrand/plug"><SPAN LANG="nl"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/K%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4:Siebrand/plug</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="nl"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[9]</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/K%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4:Siebrand"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/K%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4:Siebrand</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="nl"></SPAN>
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