Hello everyone,

We just published "A translation rally invites volunteers to localize technical messages for MediaWiki software" to the blog. URL:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/29/translation-rally/

Thanks to John for writing the post and helping edit. Also, thanks to Ed and Fabrice for editing.

Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):

• A translation rally invites volunteers to localize technical messages for MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net. (link)

•Translation rally' on translatewiki.net results: 201 active users, 44,844 new messages, 116 languages improved. (link)

Facebook/Google+

• Volunteers from around the world localized tens of thousands of technical messages for open source software, in a translation rally hosted by Wikimedia Sverige during nine days in May. This triggered a five-fold increase in activity on the translation platform Translatewiki.net.

Thanks,

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Andrew Sherman

Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation

E: asherman@wikimedia.org

WMF: ASherman (WMF)