Hi Andrew,
You are totally right. I just had Mandarin on the brain, having come from a language exchange meet up and typed in auto mode. We originally had simplified in mind, but your question made me think about which would be more relevant to our specific community, and after asking the Asian Wikimedian community, they adamantly said both are needed. So I will request for *both simplified and traditional* and see if there is anyone who is willing to help.
best regards,
Nichole
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Andrew Leung andrewcleung@hotmail.com wrote:
By "Mandarin Chinese", I think you meant simplified Chinese? Simplified vs. traditional Chinese are referring to written languages. Mandrain, Cantonese and others are referring to spoken languages.
Andrew
From: Education education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Nichole Saad nsaad@wikimedia.org Sent: August 23, 2017 6:11:23 PM To: Wikimedia Education; Wikimedia Translations; WMF All Staff Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Help the Education Team translate a survey about the Wikipedia Education Program
Dear [Affiliates, WMF Staff, Translators],
The Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation will be running a survey in mid-September about the perception of the Wikipedia Education Program in order to better focus our communications and support materials to the needs of our various audiences. In order for it to be easily accessible to as many people as possible, we need help to translate the survey into as many languages as we can.
Ideally, we would like the survey translated into at least these 5 languages: Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. Translations in additional languages are also welcome, as long as the survey can be fully translated in those languages.
We will be using a Google spreadsheet to perform the translations. This is a logistical decision, as moving translations from Meta-wiki to Qualtrics (the platform of choice to hold the survey) is very complicated.
If you are interested in helping and have some free time over the next two weeks, please respond to me directly to let me know which language you can help translate and I will follow up with more information. Our deadline for the translations to be completed is September 12.
I look forward to hearing from you!
best,
-- *Nichole Saad* WMF | Education Program Manager nsaad@wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF)
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