Cormac: I see a " <nolink> " in the middle of the Nl: text. Other than that, it looks good. Let's aim to make mistakes quickly on this list, without regret. The faster we make mistakes, the faster we will work them out.
Anthere: Please bear in mind that unhappy people are motivated to respond; happy people just smile and move on to another email. Most people I think appreciated your posts to wikipedia-l , Anthere...
On 5/27/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
absolutely no feed back was given. I am actually balancing between either unregistering the wikipedia-l, or telling a couple of people very rude things.
Instead, perhaps we could have FUN with them. How about a conversation in French and Spanish on wp-l ? We could all agree to take part, with occasional asides in a third language... I would gladly translate bits for people who follow up in a confused fashion.
I do believe that we have to remind people a bit more regularly about our multilingualism; right now, everyone acknowledges but forgets about it; let us not allow that to settle into disbelief and comments about "yeah, but really everyone knows english" .
We can do it steps by steps. Each version will bring a new improvement. This time, the improvement will be 1) a mail address 2) many people registered and 3) a mail. This is good. Improvements will be brought to number 4.
Yes.
I rather doubt it will be all translated before the end of the elections; But I wish it is ;-)
I love a challenge. Plus, I get to tackle translations again myself.
Regarding your planned posting, I have a suggestion to do. I am not sure I understand why you want to do this test posting, but for testing if things are working fine. If not, explain to me the reason of the test ?
I think we should do this, to elicit responses, remind people that translations are taking place, and use the already-translated blurbs we have on hand.
Then we can 1) divide the standard notice text into sections, so we can piece together future messages without being fluent in the target language.
[ Quarto NNN is now available in MMM languages. Another MM' languages are being translated; you can help <link>. You can find the current LANG version here <link>. ]
2) send out another notice about the English WQ3 next week, and ask people again to sign on to the mailing list
3) send out a third notice when the first set of translations are done.
Object of the mail : Newsletter of the Foundation : Quarto 3 released in english !
en: This is the announcement for quarto 3. It will contain blablalbla.... link.
We should start drafting this content now, to have it ready in many languages by next week.
SJ