Translators-l November 2007

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Commons Picture of the Year competition - translation requests
by Brianna Laugher 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hello, I'm writing to request help translating info for the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition for 2007. We consider this competition is for the whole Wikimedia community so providing translations is important to us. Translation strings and info is all here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Translat… Round 1 starts on 10 January so we still have a few more weeks, but we don't want to leave everything to the last minute. German, French and Spanish are almost complete or complete. We especially want these languages: Polski Italiano 日本語 [Chinese] Русский 中文 [Japanese] Svenska Português ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬ Suomi Other languages besides these are ALSO WELCOME. For voting we are using custom software on the toolserver, you can test it out here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Voting If there are any questions please just ask me. thanks, Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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by susana cid 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Could you please erase my address from your mailing list. I cannot afford to receive 25 messages a day on the same subjet. Thank you. Susana Cid Díaz +34 918694296 +34 677 210 661 --------------------------------- ¿Chef por primera vez? - Sé un mejor Cocinillas. Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas. _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

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by susana cid 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

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please help translate the Wikipedia Trailer
by Chuck Smith 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

If you could translate the following film into other languages, I would greatly appreciate it! I also plan to show it in about a week in Japan, so if someone could translate the Japanese subtitles, that would be great! Just create an account, scroll right on the video and then click choose which language you want to translate under "Translate this film". Thanks for your help! It already has translations in Esperanto and Norwegian, surely we can do better... :) http://www.dotsub.com/films/wikipediatruth Best wishes, Chuck Smith Esperanto Wikipedia Founder

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Re: [Translators-l] Translators-l Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11
by Chuck Smith 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

> Is anyone translating this video into French? I don't want to work on it and > then find out I've been pwned. :-p > I'll start working on it in a couple of hours if no one has said yes by > then. > --Maria > User:Arria Belli Hi Maria, You don't have to worry about anyone working over you, because as soon as you start working, the translation will lock for an hour, so that no one can interfere until you click Done. Also, thanks to everyone's hard work, this trailer is now the top film in dotsub's featured film list on the main page, so now it will really get exposure! Thanks everyone! Chuck

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] [EWW] Edit Wikipedia Week
by Aphaia 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, I suppose you are interested in participating :) Your translation and forwarding to your favorite language will be appreciated :) /* For French, Schiste said he was working now ... */ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christophe Henner <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> Date: Nov 20, 2007 10:58 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] [EWW] Edit Wikipedia Week To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear community, Few days ago a pretty neat idea was proposed, an idea which could involves all of the community members, all of you: the "Edit Wikipedia Week". That week will take place from December 3 to 8, 2007 and the concept is pretty simple: you, as a community member, will have the chance to spread the word about how to edit Wikipedia or learn how to work on one of the other sister projects. We want it to be a worldwide event, and why not, transforming it into an annual event. Everyone can be involved in helping to stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events during that week. The idea is to stage outreach events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in the projects. The events can be practically anything – big or small. It doesn't matter how simple they seem to be, everything counts. You can talk about the project at a local school; get yourself booked for a television appearance; have a chat for a local photography club about the advantages of contributing to Commons; organize a marathon weekend for translations; discuss the different uses of the WikiPolicies to a group of regular users you know in your place, recruit new people to help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to press a button, edit an article and save. Simple steps that will help the world to know just what are we doing here, and why are we doing it. Anything you think will improve the projects is valid: the idea is to reach out to people who don't edit, or have no idea what Wikipedia is, and encourage them to contribute on the project. Edit Wikipedia Week is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can organize an event for Edit Wikipedia Week, and it can take whatever form makes sense to them. You don't need a permission, it's a community event: feel free to just participate. There are no fixed rules, except the following: * Spread the word as you see it fit in your language community, local chapter, project, family etc. * Make sure to record the ideas that are developed in your community, local chapter, project, family etc, in order to share your experiences with all of us. * Start your own Edit Wikipedia week metapage in your own language, if you consider it useful to promote and monitor the ideas. Spread knowledge. Spread the Wiki love. :) Please translate this mail as much as you can, and spread it all around you. Your local mailing lists, your local village pump, your blog, etc... * See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week for more informations _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD

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[Fundraising] Fundraising page menu updated
by Aphaia 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi, we updated "Template:fundraisingmenu" so please match your language version to it, giving localized values to those new variables. According to the page, we have now 28 language versions. English and Japanese ones are already updated: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Fundraising_menu#Variants Here is the diff from the current version and the version just before the ongoing campaign started: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AFundraising_men… The variables I'd like you to make translation (and update your language "fundraisingmenu-xx" are two: |linktext_spendingplans = Planned Spending |linktext_giftcertificate = Gift Certificate For your information, all new variables added today's update are: |linktext_spendingplans = Planned Spending |linktarget_spendingplans = Planned Spending Distribution 2007-2008 |linktext_giftcertificate = Gift Certificate |linktarget_giftcertificate = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/03/Gifttoken.pdf But, as for linktarget, you may just ignore them on your language version: unless it is translated (and for Gift Certificate, we decide to keep it only in English), it should be targeting the English text. Last not but least, as you may have noticed, we are updating now the Fundraising page itself ... while it is largely changed graphically, in the source level, it doesn't required massive changes - you need only to create five short phrase translations for new variables. After some tests and checks, I hope you are informed much about that very soon. Cheers, -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote <http://wikiquote.org> is a free online project for building collections of quotations, hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser - Sitenotice
by Aphaia 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi, The forwarded mail was posted originally to foundation-l. As said, we need those who select good quotes in their language - currently we almost picked up English quotes only for the international version, while I added some from the first day quote. Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/comments dated subpage (e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/comments/2007-10-23) and make the good quotes from your eyes bold. Later we'll be able to copy to the banner setting ... also if someone separate English ones and other languages, even if not by lang completely, it would be a great help (and kudos to Casey who did it for some early days quotes) Cheers, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> Date: Nov 13, 2007 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser - Sitenotice To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On Nov 12, 2007 4:10 AM, Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hallo, > > On Nov 11, 2007 11:35 PM, Elisabeth Anderl > <n9502784(a)students.meduniwien.ac.at> wrote: > > Dear Madams and Sirs, > > I would like to suggest that the Centralnotice gets a link to > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice from > > the untranslated form, since it can't be translated locally and not > > everyone knows of the possibility to translate it on Meta. > > Good point. We saw the main messsage translated, but some parts - > -counter and -donate in most cases - undone. If "donate now" and "... > have donated" are localized too, it would be a great help. > > > Furthermore I would like to express my regret, that lots of > > "MediaWiki:Centralnotice-meter/xx" are not created even though > > translated. (this notice is shown, if the sitenotice is minimized) > > Eh, I have been saddened many centralnotice-meter/xx translations left > and not to reflect the bar at last, but thought it was only for the > previous version and now no room for the newer banner ... but you are > right, the bar will be available if you "hide" the big banner. Thank > you for bringing it up. It seems a image-handling-savvy hands to > finalize the tasks (create an image using the -meter by langauge) and > hand it to devs. Can anyone please help it out? > > > In my humble opinion speaking to people in their own language is a > > better approach. > > Yes. > > > If it is not possible to create all those graphics due to technical > > problems, I think we should provide something different than the current > > meter, e.g. making a graphic without text, or having the text on the > > right or left of it. > > Another concern is donors' quote. Non-English quotes from the > beginning of this donation seem not to be featured, unless I am > confused. And there are good quotes not only in English language also > ... What we need is more people who speak the languages to select the good ones from the dates pages. If there are any more good quotes on the "Dates" pages, please do not hesitate to bold them and they will be get added to the sitenotice. > > You can create your favorite language version, > MediaWiki:Centralnotice-quotes/xx from quotes in Fundraising > 2007/comments and its subpages by date. We have tried to create > special versions for Chinese and Japanese respectively, and it doesn't > seem to harm in my humble opinion ... Cary can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the ones for Chinese and Japanese are just because those languages do not show up in most browsers. We should try to keep all other language versions on the same page, I think. > > Cheers, > > > We are supporting many languages and in my opinion we should reflect > > that also in the actual Fundraiser. > > > > Thank You, best regards, > > > > Elisabeth Anderl (aka spacebirdy) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > -- > KIZU Naoko > Wikiquote <http://wikiquote.org> is a free online project for building > collections of quotations, hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote <http://wikiquote.org> is a free online project for building collections of quotations, hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD

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[Fundraising] Sitenotice version up
by Aphaia 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi, Sitenotice was redesigned. You can see it on Commons, meta and English projects. To match your language version to the latest one, please visit [[m:Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice]] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice I hope you love it too :) Thanks! -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote <http://wikiquote.org> is a free online project for building collections of quotations, hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD

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Betawiki has moved tp http://translatewiki.net
by Siebrand Mazeland 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Dear translators. For those of you who are using Betawiki, please update your bookmarks. Betawiki is on http://translatewiki.net now and it's performance has improved dramatically. Betawiki can be used to translate all core messages of MediaWiki (~1900) and the messages of about 85 extensions for MediaWiki (~1100) without requiring any technical knowledge. Developers commit the work of the translators to MediaWiki so it is available in the product. In October 2007 we have committed changes to 71 languages from Betawiki. We expect this number to grow to over 100 before Q2-2007. Please check http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation_statistics and try to get translators to Betawiki for those languages with poor support in MediaWiki. You continuing support for MediaWiki localisation in Betawiki (http://translatewiki.net) is highly appreciated. Cheers! Siebrand P.s. I would appreciate it of you forwarded this mail in some form to any appropriate mailing list.

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