<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear All,<br><br>Can someone who knows how this whole business is operating please write a short explanation of how translators should proceed if they are working in languages which are not national languages and which are in a country which has a Wikimedia chapter with a fundraising agreement. There really should be something about this on the fundraiser 2010 translation hub, otherwise we're all having to find out about this individually.<br><br>Just to say, if you're going to try to sort this out for your language, you are going to need a lot of patience. Can anybody confirm that any non-state language has managed to get a link from a banner to an own-language page operated by a Wikimedia chapter to work in practice? It would be nice to know that it does work in practice rather than just in theory.<br><br>Regards,<br>Eleri James<br><br>--- On <b>Sat,
11/12/10, Casey Brown <i><lists@caseybrown.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Casey Brown <lists@caseybrown.org><br>Subject: Re: [Translators-l] Translation unuseless ?<br>To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Cc: "Cotton" <cotton@fastwebnet.it><br>Date: Saturday, 11 December, 2010, 16:15<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Paul Selitskas <<a ymailto="mailto:p.selitskas@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=p.selitskas@gmail.com">p.selitskas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It must be someone's bad joke. If there's a wiki in the language and a<br>> banner in the language. The wiki should link to that banner. No other<br>> way.<br>><br><br>It's actually pretty possible, unfortunately. :-( As I'm sure you've<br>heard from other discussion on this list, the chapters
have<br>"fundraising powers" in their jurisdiction, which means that all users<br>from their country get sent to their landing page. So, although we<br>have a pms translation for the general (Foundation) landing page at<br>[[wmf:WMFJA1/pms]], users are getting sent to [[wmf:WMFJA1/IT]] (the<br>Wikimedia Italia page) because they're in Italy.<br><br>We *can* translate the chapter pages into other languages, so that<br>they're sent to the WMIT page *in pms*. However, we have to make sure<br>that the chapter gives approval to have their landing page translated<br>first.<br><br>On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:06 AM, dragonot@libero. <<a ymailto="mailto:dragonot@libero.it" href="/mc/compose?to=dragonot@libero.it">dragonot@libero.it</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Philippe, the full url is as follow:<br>> <a
href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/IT&utm_source=2010_JA1_Banner3&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=20101211EA016&referrer=http://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrada" target="_blank">http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/IT&utm_source=2010_JA1_Banner3&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=20101211EA016&referrer=http://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrada</a><br>><br><br>Thanks Dragonòt. So that means that you're in Italy and are getting<br>the WMIT page, which is only in Italian right now.<br><br>Cotton, would WMIT be okay with having a Piedmontese translation of<br>Wikimedia Italia's donation page?<br><<a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/IT" target="_blank">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/IT</a>> If so, I'll work with<br>Dragonòt to get it translated and published.<br><br>-- <br>Casey
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