Hello again, folks.
I would like to ask again that you take a look at the translation page for
the 2011 board elections, here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Translation
Many languages have been translated (thanks to the people who have helped
with that!), but there are still some pages that were translated in the 2009
elections that aren't done this year. As I said previously, we have tried to
keep the pages as similar as possible to the 2009 ones, so it should not be
too big an effort to translate if your language was translated in 2009.
Additionaly, candidate submissions are set to be started in three days (May
2), and that is usually the biggest bulk of the translation work. As the
candidates come in I will post here once the candidates are verified to be
eligible, so that you will get notifications on when they can be translated.
One should not start translating before they are verified, because in my
experience quite a few people submit their candidacies without actually
being eligible.
Thask you very much for your continued efforts, we really appreciate it.
On behalf of the election committee,
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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I've a doubt in editor's survey translation.
If I complete it, how long will it be shown in my language Wiki projects?
Tamil Wikipedian.
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> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:06:00 -0700
> From: Mani Pande <mpande(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Translators-l] test the editor survey
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> Hello everyone,
>
> As most of you are aware we are in the process of launching the editor
> survey shortly. We are very excited as the survey has been programmed,
> and is currently available in 22 languages. Thanks for making this
> possible. We would not have had the survey in 22 languages without the
> help of all the editors who volunteered their time to translate the survey.
>
> The survey is available in the following languages: English, Chinese
> (traditional, Hong Kong), Chinese (simplified), Serbian, Russian,
> Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Macedonian, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian,
> Hebrew, French, Finnish, Spanish, German, Danish, Welsh, Catalan,
> Bulgarian and Arabic.
>
> Before we launch the survey, we would like to test the non-English
> surveys. I am hoping that some of you would be willing to test the
> survey in your native language. I want to test the survey for language
> and timing. It will be akin to taking the survey like a respondent, but
> responses from the test will not be saved. We are only looking for your
> feedback to make the survey better. You can click on the following link
> to test the survey:
>
> http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=52769&lang=en
>
> I am hoping to test the survey on two important criteria:
> 1. Timing: Please take the survey without any interruptions, and give us
> an estimate of how long it took to complete the survey. In English, it
> takes about 20 minutes to complete the survey.
> 2. Language: Are the questions easy to understand? I would like to make
> sure that the questions are valid in the local cultural context. Is the
> translation (survey and interface) broken in any way?
>
> We will close the test on April 13, Wednesday at 12.00 PM (PST). Please
> send your feedback to me at mpande(a)wikimedia.org till Wednesday.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mani
>
>
On behalf of the 2011 election committee I would like to request the
translation of the election pages of this year's Wikimedia Foundation board
election. The translation coordination page can be found at [[m:Board
elections/2011/Translation<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Translation>
]].
In this year's election we have tried to reuse as much of the 2009 election
pages as possible, to make it easier on translators. On the translation
coordination page there is a box with links to diffs showing the changes
between the 2009 and 2011 election pages. In most of them you will only have
to change the year and some dates from 2009, which is very easy. The biggest
changes are in the introduction and rules page, but that should also be
fairly easy to do using the 2009 translation as a guide. (I did all of the
Norwegian Bokmål translations myself in about 45 minutes, so it shouldn't be
hard if your language was translated in 2009.)
Hoping to see all of the languages from 2009, and quite a few more
hopefully! Thanks for your help.
When the candidate submissions (which is the biggest chunk, and of course
cannot be reused) I will post a new request for translations. Happy editing!
--
mvh
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
As I didn't (yet) get a reply from mpande, I'll do it this way;
I've got some remarks about the survey in Dutch (nl):
- The
question about age: in Dutch we say: 17 jaar (17 years old), so the
word "jaar" needs to be on the right side of the box, and not on the
left
- "Are you a student?" - If the answer is yes, there shouldn't
come a question about your job, nor about your daily income (at least
they shouldn't be made compulsory)
- After the question about
which languages you speak, there should be a question, but only the
"yes/no" buttons are available
- The boxes where you have to rank (1-6) the things you think are appreciated are too small (from side to side I mean)
- In
the question about money, there should be €-signs instead of $-signs,
because we live in the EU and the question is also put in €.
- In general: the more personal questions shouldn't be made compulsory, as this frightens people
That's about it. The survey took me about 20 minutes.
--
Kilian Thoelen (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kthoelen)