Welcome to issue 2 of The Babylonian, the WMF translation subcommittee
update for March, 2007. Thanks to all who cooperated on the latest
translation, including the fundraising campaign, several press
releases and Wikimania stuffs.
=== What's up ===
# Coming events
# Requests ongoing
# News
# Thank yous
=== Coming events ===
Wikimania 2007 is coming soon, and you will get a bunch of information
about it - call for participation, registration and scholarship.
Already, some materials have been requested for translation. Your help
will be very much appreciated.
Transcom is planning to have a regular open meeting each month. The
next open meeting is planned to be on the IRC channel,
irc://irc.freenode.com/wikimedia-translation on March 9 (Friday), at
0800 UTC. It is in the morning for Europeans, and the evening for East
Asians and Australians.
=== Ongoing requests ===
==== Wikimania - Call for participation ====
Original: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation
Requested: From English to any other.
More info: [[Wmania:Wikimania:Translation#Call for Participation]]
Description: Call for participation in Wikimania 2007
Contact: Hsiang-Tai Chien [[Wmania:Htchien]]
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Htchien
==== Visa information ====
Original: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visas
Requested: From English to any other.
More info: [[Wmania:Wikimania:Translation#Visa information]]
Description: Visa information to visit Taiwan, related to Wikimania 2007
Contact: Hsiang-Tai Chien [[Wmania:Htchien]]
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Htchien
From [[Wmania:Wikimania:Translation]], you may find other requests;
the website is now growing and becoming more informative day by day,
creating new translation requests.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Translation
==== Press release: Advisory Board ====
Original: http://wikimaniafoundationwebsite/Press_releases/Advisory_Board
Now available in: English, 日本語
Requested in: Français, Español, 中文, Русский, Português...
Workplace: [[m:Wikimedia press releases/Advisory Board]]
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/Advisory_Board
Description: Press release about Advisory Board, chosen in January
2007. Further description may be found at
http://wikimaniafoundationwebsite/Advisory_Board
You can find other requests, new and old, on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TR
=== Translation news ===
In January, Wikimedia Foundation announced the employment of Sandra
Ordonez as Communications Manager. She works at the office in St.
Petersburg, Florida, USA. You may communicate with her in English or
Spanish. On IRC and meta, she is known
as Wiki_Blue. Sandy and Transcom had a meeting on February 26 for two
hours on IRC, and all were happy to have a prolific discussion in a
cheerful mood.
The Wikimania website needs your help. Please visit
[[Wmania:Wikimania:Translation]]. All languages are welcome -
currently, French and German translators are strongly needed.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Translation
On meta there are several pages about translation. Even for requests,
someone goes to [[m:TR]], another goes to [[m:Translations]]. And some
people just get lost. To avoid duplications and make things simpler,
we are trying to centralize the requests page, aiming to have the new
page ready by the 1st of April. Experiments are going on
[[m:User:Aphaia/Sandbox]], and all your comments will be welcome. You
can edit it, the same as other pages - that's a wiki, anyway. <grin>
=== Thank yous ===
The fundraising campaign has successfully ended, and we raised the
most money the Foundation has ever made. It was also a big rush of
translation requests, new fundraising forms, begging letters, and
other tiny elements. I would like to thank all of you, the
translators for your help, not only as a coordinator but also as a
user of the Wikimedia projects.
As Florence Devouard (Anthere) said in the recent Foundation press
statement*, Wikipedia as well as all the other Wikimedia projects has
become stronger and more stable, and therefore still needs your help.
I daresay "much more than before" rather than "as always", because we
are now doing what has never been done before - to have the whole
world world able to access this knowledge is an ever-growing
challenge.
The press statement mentioned above is
now available in ten languages on the official website, thanks to many
translators.
* URL: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_statements/Wikipedia%2C_Stronger_…
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Editor(s): Aphaia
Copyeditor(s): Shimgray
Special thanks to: Hsiang-Tai Chein
E-mail: translation AT wikimedia DOT org
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* This is a newsletter of the Translation subcommittee, aiming to help
translation efforts related to the Wikimedia Foundation. Its content
is released into the public domain.
* Editors of this newsletter are subcommittee members, contributing as
individual volunteers. This newsletter is not a formal publication of
the Wikimedia Foundation. Submissions or notes about related
initiatives are welcome on the talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications_subcommittees/Trans
Hi,
According to China Youth Activity Center, they are rewriting the information page for CTOYAC so the page is been temporary removed. The organization team has prepared the venue information of CTOYAC in the following link:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue
You can refer that link for information on CTOYAC.
Regards,
H.T.
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From: translators-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:translators-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of habj
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 5:31 AM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; Wikimedia Translators
Subject: Re: [Translators-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007: Call forParticipation
2007/3/1, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss(a)nichtich.de>: This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in
Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center
<http://www.cyh.org.tw/center/center_bu.php?loginno=&buid=B >.
Is that url correct? I can reach http://www.cyh.org.tw/ but not the url above.
/habj
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2007/3/1, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss(a)nichtich.de>:
>
> This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in
> Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center
> <http://www.cyh.org.tw/center/center_bu.php?loginno=&buid=B>.
Is that url correct? I can reach http://www.cyh.org.tw/ but not the url
above.
/habj
Hello,
we Wikimania coordinators will very appreciate your translation of the
message following, and also re-distributions to your favorite
mailinglists.
Even a brief note with a link to the full CfP on the Wikimania website
will be appreciated.
Cheers,
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jakob Voss <jakob.voss(a)nichtich.de>
Date: Mar 2, 2007 2:11 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing list <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and
other people that may be interested! This call is also online at
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation
== Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation ==
=== About Wikimania ===
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also
open to the public and to scientists. Wikimania is a place for editors
and users of the Wikimedia projects around the globe (Wikipedia,
Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary, and Wikiversity) to gather,
to meet each other, to exchange ideas, and to report on research and
projects. This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in
Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center
<http://www.cyh.org.tw/center/center_bu.php?loginno=&buid=B>.
We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops, and
discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers and
speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note the
details below and be bold in your submissions!
=== Important dates ===
* 1 March – 30 April: Submission
* 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance
* 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania
=== Conference Themes ===
Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:
* Wikimedia Communities – Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities (we explicitly invite you to present your local
Wikimedia project's community!); policy creation within individual
projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and
identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.
* Free Content – Open access to information; ways to gather and
distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education,
journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability;
copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects.
* Technical infrastructure – Issues related to Mediawiki development
and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development
(including usable case studies from other wikis or similar projects).
Your topic must be related to Wikimedia projects and its communities or
to the creation of free content in general. If your topic does not cover
free content creation and communities but wikis or communities in other
applications then the WikiSym 2007 conference
<http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/> (October 21-23, 2007, Montreal) or a
Recent Changes camp might better suit.
=== Types of Submissions ===
We are seeking submissions for
* presentations (10–30 minute talks with optional short or full papers)
* posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on
their own)
* workshops (30–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience)
* panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
* Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) (45-60 minutes informal meetup of group
discussion on a particular topic)
* artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
other representations of some aspect of the projects)
Furthermore you may leave ideas, comment, and suggestions at the public
wiki page <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Ideas>.
=== Guidelines ===
Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us to minimize
wasted effort by following these guidelines carefully before submitting
and be sure not to forget anything that is mentioned here. All
submissions must explicitly include the following:
* an English title
* a short English abstract of 50 to 100 words. The abstracts should be
provided as plain text, and not as file attachments. This abstract will
be used as public description of your submission in the conference program
* a detailed description (or full paper) of at least one page (300
words or more). This description will not be published unless you want
it, but used for reviewing your submission. Give an overview of the
areas to be covered or taught. State clearly the relevance to the
Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki
project. You may use any language, but we strongly suggest English or
Chinese. Full descriptions may include a link to a full paper or slides
in HTML or PDF, if available.
* full name, email address, and a short bio of 1–3 sentences for each
author. You may also add wiki usernames and nicknames.
* the type of submission (presentation, poster, workshop, panel, BoF,
artistic)
* the language(s) you are going to talk in (or the language of your
poster)
Please tell us with your submission whether you will attend to Wikimania
(a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is accepted, or
(d) only if you manage to get further funding. It may also help to add
yourself to the public list of attendees at
<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees>.
Additionally you must specify:
* the target audience you are going to reach and what previous
knowledge is needed
* special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if
needed
* images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available
* for panel submissions short biographies of each suggested panelist
* whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length.
* BoF proposals should describe the significance of and community
interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion leader(s).
Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later and the Creative Commons
Attribution License.
Once you are sure you have included all of the required information,
please send your submission by the respective deadline through our
submission system <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission>,
which will be available at the Wikimania 2007 website. Please do not
send submissions by email. For poster sessions
<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poster_session> there are
additional guidelines. Before the main conference there will also be
informal Hacking days
<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days> for MediaWiki
developers who are familiar with the software. If you need help for
translating your work please visit our translation help page. Questions,
but not submissions, may be directed to cfp(a)wikimedia.org.
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On 3/1/07, vladimir <astenio(a)infomed.sld.cu> wrote:
>
> Studio la lingua italiana da 4 anni,faccio la guida e mi piace
> tradurre.Mi potete aiutare?Tradurre é una maniera di pratticare la lingua
> italiana,e per me sarebbe una bella sperienza,ma, non ce la faccio!!!! !Mi
> perdo qua.Ho scoperto questa cosa meravigliosa una settimana fa e non riesco
> a communicarmi ne ha capire come funziona.E non sono sicuro di che questa
> sia la maniera corretta di farlo.....scusatemi.
¡Hola Vladimir y bienvenido a la lista de traducción de Wikimedia!
En esta lista de traductores de Wikimedia siempre estamos ansiosos por
tener nuevos voluntarios que nos ayuden a difundir la enorme cantidad
de novedades que ocurren en los proyectos Wikimedia.
Puedes visitar http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translations y
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TR para conocer en lo que estamos
trabajando actualmente. Necesitamos gente que hable todos los idiomas,
y quizás traducir artículos del italiano al español o viceversa puede
sernos de gran ayuda. La mayoría de los textos a traducir están
escritos originalmente en inglés, pero muchas veces es de gran ayuda
para los traductores de lenguas romances el tener un modelo en alguno
de esos idiomas para una mejor traducción.
A todo esto, ¿participas en alguno de los proyectos en español, por
ejemplo Wikipedia? Tenemos muy pocos participantes cubanos y sería muy
bueno dar un impulso para tener editores de tu país.
Puedes plantear en esta lista tus dudas y pedir apoyo. Habemos algunos
listeros que hablamos español y algunos que hablan italiano. Así que
siempre serás bienvenido y tendrás ayuda.
Un saludo cordial
--
Juan David Ruiz
Studio la lingua italiana da 4 anni,faccio la guida e mi piace
tradurre.Mi potete aiutare?Tradurre é una maniera di pratticare la lingua
italiana,e per me sarebbe una bella sperienza,ma, non ce la faccio!!!! !Mi
perdo qua.Ho scoperto questa cosa meravigliosa una settimana fa e non riesco
a communicarmi ne ha capire come funziona.E non sono sicuro di che questa
sia la maniera corretta di farlo.....scusatemi.
yandy