[WikiJA-l] [Fwd: Betawiki newsletter #3 - End of Year Translation Rally]

[Shun Fukuzawa]

ゆきちです。

MediaWikiの翻訳サイトであるBetaWikiで、年末に向けて翻訳者を募集していま
す。お暇な方、是非ともご参加ください。

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Subject: Betawiki newsletter #3 - End of Year Translation Rally
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:46:25 +0100
From: Betawiki staff <betawiki ＠ xs4all.nl>
Reply-To: betawiki ＠ xs4all.nl
To: shfukuzawa ＠ jcom.home.ne.jp

Hello, dear Betawiki user.

This is our fourth e-mail newsletter. It intends to keep you updated on
Betawiki's developments, and is also aimed at reminding you to visit
http://translatewiki.net at least once every month to update the language(s)
you have been contributing to in the past, so that the localisations will
stay up to date.

Noteworthy events
-----------------
* We have two weeks left until the end of 2008. What could be better than
  ending a year with with a fully translated message group? Participate in
  our End of Year Translation Rally and contribute now!

         http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate

* In the past months we have seen a few very nice open source products added
  to Betawiki: Mantis, a bug tracker[1], and Mwlib, an open source python
  based MediaWiki rendering engine[2]. See the stats
  later in this newsletter.
* Feature wise a special page LanguageStats[3] has been added to show real-
  time translation statistics for all messages groups and
  Special:Translations shows all translations for a particular message.
* More detailed news is available on-wiki[4].

Status overview
---------------
* MediaWiki core messages: 136 core messages were added since the last
  update bringing the total to to 2,160. There are now 164 (+34) optional
  messages[5]. MediaWiki 1.13.3 was released recently; everyone is
  encouraged to update; it also includes the latest relevant localisations.
* MediaWiki extensions: Currently Betawiki supports 274 MediaWiki
  extensions, which is an increase of 30 since the last update. In total the
  supported MediaWiki extensions have 5,974 (+1,313) normal messages, and
  139 (+13) optional messages[6].
* Mantis: Localisation of Mantis is still growing; no effort has been made
  yet to get previous 'off-line' translators to Betawiki. This will be done
  in the coming month. Current message volume is 1,176 normal messages and
  6 optional messages[7].
* FreeCol: Localisation of FreeCol is continuing as normal, support for more
  languages is progressing steadily. FreeCol 0.8.0 alpha 3 is available for
  download. Please update your translations for the release version. Current
  message volume is 1,714 (+64) regular messages and 455 (+95) optional
  messages[8]. Contributions are especially welcome to the languages that
  are near the 25% inclusion criteria or already below it.
* Vocabulary trainer: this product makes it possible to use OmegaWiki word
  collections as input for vocabulary training. It currently contains 63
  (-1) messages[9].

Statistics
----------
We run daily statistics on all supported products. Here is an overview of
localisation statuses for the various products, and a comparison with the
previous report (30 August), per 15 December 2008.

* MediaWiki: Supported languages: 322 (+1%)
* MediaWiki: 98% of most often used messages translated: 105 (-6%)
* MediaWiki: 90% translated: 64 (- 4%)
* MediaWiki: 90% Wikimedia extensions translated: 25 (-11%)
* MediaWiki: 65% Extensions translated: 17 (no change)

* FreeCol: Supported languages 88 (+11%)
* FreeCol: 90%  translated: 17 (+42%)

* Vocabulary trainer: Supported languages: 56 (+27%)
* Vocabulary trainer: 90% translated: 19 (+19%)

* Mantis: Supported languages 52 (no comparison data yet)
* Mantis: 90% translated: 12 (no comparison data yet)

* Mwlib.rl: Supported languages: 13 (no comparison data yet)
* Mwlib.rl: 90% translated: 9 (no comparison data yet)

Languages with the most edits in the past month
-----------------------------------------------
 1. Ukranian (uk) (1,940 edits)
 2. Bosnian (bs) (1,620 edits)
 3. French (fr) (1,290 edits)
 4. Galician (gl) (1,190 edits)
 5. Khmer (km) (1,170 edits)
 6. Hebrew (he) (1,110 edits)
 7. Dutch (nl) (1,032 edits)
 8. Slovak (sk) (995 edits)
 9. Occitan (oc) (860 edits)
10. Japanse (ja) (750 edits)

Top contributors since the last newsletter (excluding staff)[10]
----------------------------------------------------------------
 1. Meno25 (11,000 edits) Languages: Arabic
 2. McDutchie (3,200 edits) Languages: Interlingua
 3. CERminator (2,800 edits) Languages: Bosnian
 4. Cedric31 (2,900 edits) Languages: Occitan, French
 5.  (2,900 edits) Languages: Sinhala
 6. Tolin~o (2,800 edits) Languages: Galician
 7. YaronSh (2,500 edits) Languages: Hebrew
 8. Vovk (2,100 edits) Languages: Ukrainian
 9. Michawiki (2,100 edits) Languages: Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian
10. Brest (2,100 edits) Languages: Macedonian

We welcome feedback about this newsletter. Please let us know by sending a
reply to this mail. We will try to accommodate your wishes.

Siebrand Mazeland
Betawiki staff

[1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Mantis
[2] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Mwlib.rl
[3] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:LanguageStats
[4] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Betawiki:News
[5] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=core
[6] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-0-all
[7]
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-mantis
[8]
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-freecol
[9]
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-voctrain
[10] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:ContributionScores

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