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