We could really use some help from the Brazilians with this! The deadlines are quickly approaching and Potuguese is one of our priority languages that needs a lot of help.<br><br>Casey<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: Casey Brown<br>Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011<br>Subject: Two translation requests of special interest to chapters<br>To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <<a href="mailto:internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org">internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:chapters@wikimedia.ch">chapters@wikimedia.ch</a><br>
Cc: Mani Pande <<a href="mailto:mpande@wikimedia.org">mpande@wikimedia.org</a>>, Philippe Beaudette <<a href="mailto:pbeaudette@wikimedia.org">pbeaudette@wikimedia.org</a>><br><br><br>Hey chapters! :-)<br><br>
There are two projects undergoing translation going on right now that<br>I think a lot of you would be really interested in: the personal image<br>hiding filter vote ("image filter referendum") and the mobile readers<br>
survey.<br><br>------ Image filter referendum ------<br><br>As you hopefully all know already, the image filter referendum is a<br>global referendum of Wikimedians focused on the development and usage<br>of an opt-in personal image hiding feature. That basically means that<br>
it's a way for people to hide what types of images they personally<br>don't want to see right away -- if an image fits into one of the<br>categories of images they don't want to see, it will be initially<br>hidden from view. If after reading the caption they decide they want<br>
to see the image, they can easily do that. If they don't, then they're<br>happy that they didn't have a random penis show up in their face (or<br>something of that nature). This is something that a lot of outreach<br>
and GLAM-focused people have been wanting for a while now, and I'm<br>pretty sure we've actually discussed these issues on the list.<br><br>The main introduction information/rules, the FAQ, and a number of<br>other pages were published the other day, so we could really use your<br>
help in getting them translated. As this will be an important global<br>referendum, we need to make sure that everyone understands the<br>situation and what they're actually voting for.<br><br>Our main language priorities by number of visitors are en, ja, es, pt,<br>
fr, ru, it, vi, ar, nl, zh, tr, fa, ko, th. So we could use help from<br>Wikimedia Espaņa/Argentina/Chile, Wikimedia Portugal, Wikimedia<br>France, Wikimedia RU, Wikimedia Italia, and Wikimedia Nederland.<br><br>The deadline is 8 August 2011 and the translation status table is<br>
here: <<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFR/T">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFR/T</a>><br><br>------ Mobile Readers Survey 2011 ------<br><br>I'm sure you guys all remember the Editors Survey from a little while<br>
ago. Well, the Global Development Department is running another<br>survey, this time focusing on mobile readers rather than editors. This<br>is another survey that will help us understand a lot more about the<br>people who use mobile services and how our mobile sites can be<br>
improved. Mobile web access continues to grow, and it's important<br>that we learn more about the mobile situation in different areas so we<br>can increase our reach and get a few steps closer to our mission.<br><br>
This translation request is a little different from other requests in<br>that instead of accepting any language, we will only be able to<br>support a small number of languages. (These languages were chosen<br>based on existing mobile page views and strategic priorities.) The<br>
languages this survey will be run in are en, ja, es, de, fr, ru, pt,<br>tr, ar, zh. So we could use some help from Wikimedia<br>Argentina/Espaņa/Chile, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia France,<br>Wikimedia RU, Wikimedia Portugal, and Wikimedia Taiwan/Hong<br>
Kong/Macau.<br><br>The deadline for this request is 10 August 2011 and the workspace is<br>on Meta-Wiki: <<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Mobile_Readers_Survey_2011/Translation">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Mobile_Readers_Survey_2011/Translation</a>><br>
<br>------ That's it ------<br><br>Well, that's the end of my spiel. :-) If you have any time, please<br>help with these translation requests. Feel free to poke me or the list<br>with any questions you might have.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance!<br>Casey<br><br>--<br>Casey Brown<br>Cbrown1023<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Casey Brown<br>Cbrown1023<br>