As a result of a recent software update, a change requested by some
Wikidata users has been enabled on Meta.[1]
Now the outdated translations, marked by the !!FUZZY!! markers in
translation units pages, are hidden from the translation pages: where
you used to see pink-coloured paragraphs, there's now the English text.
We have about 700 such translations on Meta, because some hard-working
users are migrating several pages to Translate: updating them is often
very quick, and you'll restore readers with sometimes crucial pages in
their language; just remember to remove the !!FUZZY!! tag when you're done.
You can see the pages that need updating LanguageStats for your
language:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LanguageStats#sortable…>
Thanks,
Nemo
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44328
Hey guys,
I could really do with some help from some french speakers. I am trying to
give the FAQ on foundation an update in the major languages and the one I
am struggling with is french.
I know its a very big document but if people have the time then your help
would be really appreciated.
Here's the link:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/Translation/FAQ/fr
Thanks guys :)
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Joseph Seddon
Fundraiser Translation Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
I believe my first message didn't go through for some reason; re-sending.
Yours,
James.
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From: James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 18 April 2013 18:35
Subject: Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
To: translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Forwarding to highlight the request for translators for the
VisualEditor interface, in particular into Arabic and Hindi.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 18 April 2013 17:32
Subject: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects
<wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
All,
TL;DR: VisualEditor will be deployed on 14 new Wikipedias next week as an
opt-in alpha. Your assitance is requested to inform your wikis about this
and help get the software translated.
Next week (on 25 April) we are going to deploy the alpha opt-in version of
the VisualEditor to some non-English Wikipedias in the same way that it
has been on the English Wikipedia since December 2012.
This will let users get familiar with the VisualEditor, give us feedback
on what works and what is broken, and help us prioritise further work
ahead of the planned deployment as a 'default' editor for all users which
we intend to do in a few months' time.
Due to a number of issues we have been unable to release VisualEditor to
non-English wikis until now, and we would very much like to get some great
feedback from as many wikis as possible - especially for extended Unicode
and RTL languages, but also other languages. Does the VisualEditor work in
your language? Does it gel with your wiki's workflow?
The initial languages we want to target are the "top 10" Wikipedias by way
of scale - de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja - plus selected others to
help us discover issues we anticipate: ar, he, hi, ko, zh. These will let
us test most of the locales we are concerned about. If this goes well, we
hope to deploy the opt-in alpha to all Wikipedias.
Please tell your wiki colleagues that this is coming, especially if your
wiki is in this list! Additionally, you can see how fully-translated the
software is into your language in the stats at TranslateWiki.Net[0] -
please encourage wiki colleagues to help translate the messages ahead of
the deployment!
As a note, we have just updated the VisualEditor integration so that the
"Edit" tab goes to VisualEditor, and there is an "Edit source" tab to go
to the wikitext editor.
This change (which affects the English Wikipedia opt-in deployment and
MediaWiki.org as well as the new deployments mentioned above) moves the
way that VisualEditor integrates with the wiki's workflow to be closer to
how it will appear when it is the 'default' editor. It is still easy to
use the wikitext editor if that is what you want to do - the "Edit source"
tab (at least for now) will be "above the fold" and not in the drop-down
menu on Vector.
[0] - https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&gro…
Happy to answer any questions you might have!
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
I was wondering if we could get some french translators to take a look at
the following page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/Translation/FAQ/fr
The notification didn't seem to get a lot of response.
Thanks Guys :)
Seddon
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Joseph Seddon
Fundraiser Translation Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Update_of_localisation>
will not be true for a short while.
Nemo
-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Temporarily disabling l10n update
Data: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:01:12 -0700
Mittente: Rob Lanphier
Hi folks,
We've had at least a couple of site outages which we believe are due
to l10nupdate. The root cause is identified in a fairly old
ResourceLoader bug that seems to be biting us a little harder than it
normally does:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27320
Disabling l10nupdate means that changes from Translatewiki.net will
not propagate to our websites as quickly as they normally do.
Depending on how long it takes us to fix this, it could be multiple
days.
Brad Jorsch is going to take a closer look at this issue
today/tomorrow, and hopefully identify the root cause. If he's able
to find the cause quickly, we may not need to disrupt the service, but
we're going to plan for the worst here.
Thanks (in advance) for your patience!
Rob
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Hello.
i am the founder of Der Mundo (www.dermundo.com), a multilingual link sharing and cross language search service.
I thought our approach might be useful to Wikipedia for external links, as a way of automating translation when linking to foreign language links (for the reader). It would be easy enough to implement a multilingual link in Wikipedia using language detection (from request headers) and redirection.
If there's interest in doing so, I would be happy to share information about the machine translation tools in use, and how to link to them in an automated fashion.
Best regards,
Brian McConnell
Der Mundo
PS - feel free to check out Der Mundo, we're looking for testers. It's a handy way to share interesting web pages, blog posts, etc with a global audience.