[Quarto-l] WQ 3' ready for English release, translation.

Hello Quartans, Ruth (It is good to hear from you again) We are on schedule for publication in English today (Monday). I went through and copyedited the Quarto on my own today; it took me around 6 hours to copyedit all 15 pages**, separate out second-quarter events for WQ-4, and add detailed statistics on our nine glorious Wikimedia projects. This is not a negligible amount of time, but it is no enormous investment compared with the intense translation and design work others are doing. The entire Quarto (save the retrospective) is now ready for translation. Another few hours of proofreading are still needed: for consistency and proper use of links, names, and accessibility (image captions, etc). ** "Fifteen?" I hear you cry. "Isn't the Quarto eight pages long?" Well, we have been working on a PDF version of this quarto, and it will just fit neatly into a 16-page format including the cover. == Copyediting == Quite right. In the end I was the only active English copyeditor for this edition ;-) I know how much more pleasant it is to work with other people. Ruth's prolonged illness was unexpected, but I take full responsibility for the inactivity of our copyeditors; I will make sure we have a reasonable staff to edit the next edition.... starting this week (how time flies!) 2d-Quarter draft reports should start coming in over the next few days. == WQ 4 == Speaking of which: * WQ 4 has many small pieces of content floating about; and will have a skeleton up at [[m:WQ/4]] tomorrow. If you have been considering writing a report about your favored project for this quarter, please do so! * So many events and meetings and conferences have taken place in the past two months, that many haven't even gotten mentioned on meta or on a major mailing list... if you know of or have been involved with such a meeting, make a note of it on the draft page for the next Quarto. ==Specific help== This coming week, I need : * Someone to help plan out design ideas for the next few editions, and * Someone interested in collecting existing reports from many sources (meta, en:, local news outlets like the wikibooks newsletter, the de: Kurier, the en: Signpost). To push your own design idea (lovely ideas have been suggested in the past by Sansculotte and others) : Schneelocke, Zanimum, and Mats Halldin have been doing a wonderful job dividing up the latest work on covers and internal design; and Villy has always been most helpful. Feel free to contact any of them directly with ideas or suggestions. Anthere wrote: There is that...