Dear translators,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation run fundraising campaigns
worldwide. We strive to localize our campaigns and create high quality
messages in a variety of languages. I would like to send out a warm thank
you to those of you who have provided support and helped us translate
fundraising messages into your language. Your help and support is most
valuable.
We are always interested in receiving local feedback regarding our
campaigns and learn how we can improve our messaging. In order to do so,
our aim is to create a panel of 'local experts' who can help us answer
questions and provide feedback regarding localization. If you are
interested in becoming part of such a group and provide feedback regarding
your country, culture or language, please take one minute to fill in this
quick form.
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/1tzYMSJxIwZUq9m8CVj-dYmEmXy…>
I would also like to encourage those of you who might not be aware of the
translation and localization process to visit the Fundraising translation
hub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Translation> to learn
more.
Also, please feel free to reach out to me directly via email on on my talk
page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JRobell_(WMF)> if you have
questions or concerns.
Thank you for your valuable support.
Kind regards,
Jessica Robell
Sr. Global Campaign Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi everyone,
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/40
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PDT. The existing translations will be posted on the
wikis in that language.
There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
should generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday
in any case.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, I appreciate your help and feedback.
Thanks!
//Johan Jönsson
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Hi!
The Design Research
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Design_Research> team at
the Wikimedia Foundation is seeking volunteers to participate in a series
of interviews
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Evaluating_article_recommendations…>
about
content translation on Wikipedia. The goal of the study is to understand
how experienced translators find and select articles to translate from one
Wikipedia to another. The results of this study will help improve automated
article recommendation tools for content translators.
We would like to speak to editors who have experience translating articles
across Wikipedia languages. The only requirements for participating in this
study are:
a) the editor must have previously translated at least one Wikipedia
article to or from English and one of the following languages: Catalan,
Farsi, French, Italian, Spanish, or Swahili.
b) the editor must be available to speak with a WMF researcher over Google
Hangout; if you haven't used Google Hangouts before, don't worry, we will
walk you through it. Your participation will take no preparation, and all
you have to do is show up at the Google Hangout with your laptop/desktop
ready to go.
Each study session will be approximately 50 minutes in length, and can be
scheduled at a time that works for all participants. If you're interested
in participating, please reply to this message with your availability (be
sure to note your time zone). Thank you for helping us improve content
translation!
Sincerely,
Samantha Becker & Jonathan Morgan
Wikimedia Design Research
Hi everyone,
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/39
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PDT. The existing translations will be posted on the
wikis in that language.
There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
should generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday
in any case.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, I appreciate your help and feedback.
Thanks!
//Johan Jönsson
--
Dear translation community,
We are trying hard to finish up our translations for the community tech
review. The following translations are still needed:
German: 2 sentences
Japanese: 2 sentences and a phrase
Portuguese: 4 sentences and a phrase
Chinese: 5 sentences and a phrase
Would be great if you can review: French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic.
Feel free to email me or use the talk page if you have questions or
concerns regarding the translations.
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-R…
Meta page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Tech_support_satisfaction_poll/Que…
Thank you so much,
Edward
--
Edward Galvez
Survey Specialist
Learning & Evaluation
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/38
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PDT. The existing translations will be posted on the
wikis in that language.
There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
should generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday
in any case.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, I appreciate your help and feedback.
Thanks!
//Johan Jönsson
--
Hi everyone,
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/37
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PDT. The existing translations will be posted on the
wikis in that language.
There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
should generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday
in any case.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, I appreciate your help and feedback.
Thanks!
//Johan Jönsson
--
Hello,
We have recently received a blog post from Tomasz Kozlowki; In September,
we love monuments. A big thank you goes out to Francesca Lissoni for
translating the blog post into Italian.
We are looking to have two more sentences translated from English to
Italian.
*ENGLISH TO ITALIAN*
• Monuments of the world, beware! Wikipedians are on a mission to
photograph you all.
• Get your cameras ready: #WikiLovesMonuments is back!
Thanks in advance and we really appreciate all of the wonderful
multilingual content :).
Best,
--
Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
*WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>