Translators-l August 2010

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Fundraising_2010 outreach
by James Alexander 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Howdy translators! I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce some of the Foundation's fundraising staff to you and explain how things are going to work with this year's fundraiser (currently scheduled to start November 7). Basically, what we're planning on doing for this fundraiser is not just "translate" the fundraising messages, but also "localize" them. We realize that not all messages work the best in every language,culture or region so in addition to translating the English messages, we will also have the option of other messages specific to your language or region... and who knows better how to get people to donate in your language and your region than you do? :) We really need your help this year to come up with local messages yourself and also to help get the rest of your local community involved. This is where the fundraising team comes in. This fundraising season myself, Keegan Peterzell, and Deniz Gültekin are the ones who have been tasked with reaching out to every single wiki to try and get local participation in the fundraiser planning and implementation. We're here both to answer questions as they come up and to listen to your feedback about what types of messaging will work and won't work. We'll constantly be tweaking or changing things, based on your input, to try to make everything as perfect as possible for the readers and donors in your language and region. If you have any questions or want to help out please feel free to contact me, Keegan, or Deniz: * James Alexander, [[User:Jalexander]], <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org> * Keegan Peterzell, [[User:Kpeterzell]], <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org> * Deniz Gültekin, [[User:Dgultekin]], <dgultekin(a)wikimedia.org> Thanks and I look forward to working with you throughout this fundraiser! We'll be kicking off the discussions on your wikis very soon, and would be delighted if you all would participate and also help translate our initial message into your own language! James Alexander -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation Jalexander(a)wikimedia.org

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Phase V of the Usability Roll-out
by Casey Brown 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hello all, On September 1, the Usability Team is planning on rolling-out its usability improvements (including vector) to all the remaining projects. Here's an update on what currently needs to be translated and where to do it. (Most of the work is being reused from previous phases, so you might not need to translate anything more.) * the interface can be translated on translatewiki[1] * the CentralNotice shown at the top of every page can be translated on Meta-Wiki[2] * the FAQ can be translated on Usability Wiki[3] A few tips about the CentralNotice: * The CN uses {{SITENAME}}, so if you need help making that fit properly with your language grammatically, just send a message to the list or put a message on the CentralNotice talk page. * If the way the date is formatted or that line is written doesn't make sense in your language grammatically, feel free to tweak it. (For example, saying "Please help before August 25, 2010." instead.) The Usability Team would love to have all translations done by August 25, 2010 (a week before the roll-out), so if you could translate before then, that would be great. Thanks in advance for your help, everyone! Casey [1]http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-ui-0-a… [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Usability_Initiative [3]http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/What's_new,_questions_and_answers -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

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Localizing from English style
by praveenp 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi, I think it is better to show brackets or any other symbols on message itself. Many language has a different sentence structure, so, automatically inserted (read as in English way) symbols cannot merge, with localized message. It is highly stressful to manage them with sentence (or part of sentence) structure. I afraid in this message http://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Watchlistfor2 it is almost impossible in Malayalam, so I am trapezing on words. If this is the case for Malayalam I am sure that all Indic languages are facing same problem, and probably many other languages. Praveen

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Fwd: "Staff" page recently updated
by Casey Brown 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

(Forwarding Sage's response, since he's not on this list.) On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:03 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: >> BTW: I'm having troubles translating "Public Policy Initiative" into >> German. Wikipedia's definition of "Public policy" doesn't really fit >> what the initiative is doing and also it is difficult to translate. >> Can anyone come up with a better term for translations? > > I've included Sage in here -- maybe he can figure out a better way to > say it. Sage, we're translating the "Staff" page and some people are > having trouble translating "Public Policy Initiative", maybe you can > help. :-) > I suggest "Government Policy Initiative", if that's any easier to translate. It's not precisely the same, but it's close. If that doesn't work, I'd ask Frank Schulenburg. He has a more developed sense of what the name of the project is supposed to convey, and of course he speaks German. -Sage

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"Staff" page recently updated
by Casey Brown 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hello all, The staff listing[1] on Foundationwiki has just been redesigned and is relatively stable. So, for the first time in years, we're actively encouraging you guys to translate it. :-) As you can see from the translation workspace is on Meta-Wiki[2], there are a lot of existing translations for this page, but they all need to be updated. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on this list, the request's talk page[3], or on IRC[4]. Thanks for translating! Casey [1]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Staff [3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Translation_requests/WMF/Staff [4]irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translators -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

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INQUIRE
by pEDRO aRSENIO henríquez 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Dear Gentlemen, I need some information about the folllowing subjects: I remember that some time ago I started doing some work on translations for your organization; but I don´t remember what did I do in that opportunity in order to access the pages of tranlations to be improved. Besides that, I don´t master the secrets of Internet, so I face some difficulty in interpreting some information you send in the fequent received e-mails. ¿Could you send me some indications on: 1) How to Access to the written translation material to be revised; 2) How to return you the revised versión of the traslations done. Thanks you very much. Pedo A Henríquez.

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