<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi folks:</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your comments about these translations. As you know, the interface translations were sort of a mess - there were interface elements that we didn't know about until almost the last moment. Rather than present them totally in English, we made the conscious decision to get what we could from previous forms and other places, and know that some of it would be flawed. The alternative would be to send out ANOTHER request for translation, which we didn't want to do, because translators had already done so much on this project and we didn't want to keep hammering you with requests, particularly for things to happen in a very short amount of time.</div><div><br></div><div>The application was not presented to us as early as we would ideally have liked; interface elements were unknown... all of these were issues with the process, but are issues that we're learning from.</div><div><br></div><div>Going forward, your solution (add a section for button so that we can manually update flawed translations) is a good one. Any that are added, I'll get updated as quickly as possible. In the meantime, if there's something particularly horrible, feel free to send me a private mail and I'll see what we can do.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your hard work...</div><div><br></div><div>Philippe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">____________________</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Philippe Beaudette</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>Facilitator, Strategic Planning<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="mailto:philippe@wikimedia.org">philippe@wikimedia.org</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br><br>Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in<br>the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!<br><br></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Mariano Cecowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>--- El mar 22-sep-09, Tisza Gergő <<a href="mailto:gtisza@gmail.com">gtisza@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Plus, there's no "Volunteer now" to be translated.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've just added a == Button == section with that text.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please translate it, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the previous section (Title) too if it's not translated yet<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">into your language;<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'll file a bug in the (UTC) evening if developers do not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">notice the problem until then.<br></blockquote><br>Good idea, Tisza.<br><br>We should reflect that also here:<br><a href="http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Translation/Call_for_participation/Appeal_letter">http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Translation/Call_for_participation/Appeal_letter</a><br><br>Would you file the bug now? This thing is already out, so we should try to solve it ASAP.<br><br>Thank you,<br>Mariano Cecowski.<br><br><br> Yahoo! Cocina<br><br>Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.<br><br><br>http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Translators-l mailing list<br>Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>