On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Platonides platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Cary Bass wrote:
Does this mean that you'll have your bot spam the notice [2] on all Wikipedias (only, no Wikibooks, Wiktionaries, etc.) listed here[3] ?
[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo/Notification [3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Internal/Distrib...
Thanks :)
The text must be translated prior to the spam. The translation will be done by people knowing each language. Thus, I'd favour each translator posting the notice at the local VP after translating instead of a bot. The translators will likely be on those communities and, anyway, people is always preferred to bots. (Note that 1 wikipedia = 1 tranlation ~ 1 translator). For languages not translated after X days (a week?), then a bot can be run with a default language.
Did you look at the notification I posted? There's a spot there for the translation. In my opinion, I think it's better to just get it out there and *then* have it translated by a local community member. That way we still have the original in English as well.