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CE Insights survey invitation message ready for early translation
by Edward Galvez 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Dear translators, Community Engagement Insights survey[1] will be launching in early January and we need some help translating the survey invitation. The invitation is ready for translation and there should be no more edits to the message. Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-C… We are planning to send this message by January 5th, 2016. Please feel free to send me any questions or feedback. Please note that I am on vacation/holiday this week, but will be checking my emails. All the best, Edward [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist (Survey Specialist), and Affiliations Committee Liaison Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: Re: Request for translation: Captions of the 2016 "Facts matter" video
by Guillaume Paumier 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

Forwarding Victor's response ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:12 PM Subject: Re: Re: [Translators-l] Request for translation: Captions of the 2016 "Facts matter" video To: Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, I'm not subscribed to translators-l, so I'm getting this from a forwarded message. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Sylvain Chiron" <chironsylvain(a)orange.fr> > Date: Dec 23, 2016 6:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Translators-l] Request for translation: Captions of the 2016 > "Facts matter" video > To: <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: > > Hi, > > In case I’d be doing something wrong: why aren’t the white subtitles > synchronized with the yellow subtitles? > To make a perfect sync takes extra effort and the captioning company that I contracted with to create the captions did not offer a service to sync captions to the already burned-in subtitles. I asked them to, and the said that they couldn't offer the service and unfortunately, I didn't have time to do it myself. I'll also add that adding captions to a subtitles video isn't something I like doing. I only did it because this video is in two languages and if you happen to turn off captions, and there are no subtitles, then you wouldn't understand half of the video. > I feel it’s a bit disturbing, > while the video is already very dynamic and there’s many things to > follow. Can I readapt the subtitles for my translated (French) version? > So to be clear: Captions are metadata you can turn off and on Subtitles are burned in text on the video To answer your question - *Yes!* I had a request from a Polish Wikimedian, and exported a version without any subtitles or intertitles - the only text is credits and anything that might be captured photographically: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMat ter_(No_subtitles,_no_titles_-_this_version_is_designed_for_ YOU_to_add_intertitles_and_subtitles_in_YOUR_language_with_ video_editing_software,_and_is_not_designed_to_be_played_alone).webm Instructions for font sizes, style, et cetera are in the summary on the video above. This version has already been forked into two Chinese versions: Traditional Chinese version: https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=N4qzxXYn8jU&feature=youtu.be Simplified Chinese version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xayi7ahCnzY The Wikimedian used a proprietary program called screenflow to add the subtitles and intertitles precisely. > Well, I really like the video, hoping it’ll make people reflect about > the role of Wikipedia in an informed world. I might use it for some > sceptical friends, to show that WMF people are able to do high quality > work. > > All the best and possibly happy festivities for those who have, > > Sylvain > > :) Also I'll say thank you to everyone who translated captions so far! I just migrated 8 finished languages to the YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs Can anyone do an RU or PT translation? > > Le 23/12/2016 à 17:31, Guillaume Paumier a écrit : > > Dear translators, > > > > Victor Grigas just published the latest Wikimedia-year-in-review video > > on Commons and other sites, and he's requesting help with translating > > the captions. Any assistance you could offer would be most appreciated > > :) > > > > Happy holidays, > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org> > > Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:29 PM > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO - Wikipedia: #FactsMatter2016 > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > We just published our year-in-review video, > > *Wikipedia: #FactsMatter2016* > > > > Wikimedia Commons: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm > > > > YouTube: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs > > > > Vimeo: > > https://vimeo.com/196775243 > > > > If you can, please translate the captions on commons. Once I have enough > > languages translated there, I'll migrate them to YouTube and Vimeo. > > Tomorrow morning (EST) we will be sharing this video to our Facebook and > > Twitter channels. > > > > :) > > > > To translate, copy this > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_-_Fac > tsMatter2016.webm.en.srt > > > > then go here and pick your language > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText%3A > Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm > > > > -- > > > > *Victor Grigas* > > Video Production Manager > > Wikimedia Foundation > > vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org > > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > -- Guillaume Paumier

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Request for translation: Captions of the 2016 "Facts matter" video
by Guillaume Paumier 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Dear translators, Victor Grigas just published the latest Wikimedia-year-in-review video on Commons and other sites, and he's requesting help with translating the captions. Any assistance you could offer would be most appreciated :) Happy holidays, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:29 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO - Wikipedia: #FactsMatter2016 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, We just published our year-in-review video, *Wikipedia: #FactsMatter2016* Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/196775243 If you can, please translate the captions on commons. Once I have enough languages translated there, I'll migrate them to YouTube and Vimeo. Tomorrow morning (EST) we will be sharing this video to our Facebook and Twitter channels. :) To translate, copy this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.we… then go here and pick your language https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText%3AWikipedia_-_Fac… -- *Victor Grigas* Video Production Manager Wikimedia Foundation vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- Guillaume Paumier

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Ready for early translation: Tech News #51 (2016)
by Johan Jönsson 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/51 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T… We're planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e. Monday morning PT. This will be done by Nick (Quiddity). The existing translations will be posted on the wikis in that language. Deadlines: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors#The_deadlines 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. //Johan Jönsson --

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Collaboration team newsletter, December 2016 issue
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

The new Collaboration team newsletter is ready for early translation. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2016/12 Direct transaltion link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-C… I plan to distribute that newsletter at the beginning of next week, ideally on Monday. The content is already frozen, you can translate safely. I'm off tomorrow (CET time), so I'll not be able to answer your questions during the coming hours. Thanks a lot for your support! -- Benoît Evellin (Trizek) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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Apologies: One more sentence added
by Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

I apologize for this late change: I've added one more sentence to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Whatamidoing_(WMF)/New_beta_feature It says "You may write comments in any language." Mediawiki.org is a multi-lingual site, so feedback and comments are always welcome in any language – but, of course, not everyone knows that, so I should have included this statement in the first draft. I'm sorry about this late change. By the way, if you're interested, then here's a list of the top 10 Wikipedia languages as ranked by the number of currently active editors: 1. English 2. German 3. Spanish (no translation started yet) 4. French 5. Japanese (no translation started yet) 6. Russian (no translation started yet) 7. Italian 8. Chinese (no translation started yet) 9. Portuguese (no translation started yet) 10. Arabic On this message, after just one day, we already have translations for half of these popular languages, plus Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Ukrainian, and a couple of others that are still underway at the moment. Thank you all for your quick and helpful responses. -- -- Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing) Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

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Waiting review/validation for Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual
by mathieu stumpf guntz 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Hi, I already tried to arise the concern in the dedicated discussion <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manua…>, but I'm still waiting for feedback on improvement I should bring or a validation of the current translatable version of the Scribunto/Lua reference manual <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual>. Cheers, Mathieu

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Re: [Translators-l] Asking a few Wikipedias to enable Hovercards [ca, el, ru, hu]
by Chris Koerner 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Hello again. I hate to be a bother, but I could use some help with the Catalan and Russian translations of this message. I you have a moment and can help translate I would greatly appreciate it. Many thanks to those who have helped with the existing translations! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Enable_Hovercards Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Help us translate a global community survey for Wikimedia
by Edward Galvez 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Dear Translators, My name is Edward Galvez and I work at the Wikimedia Foundation, supporting surveys for the movement. The Foundation will be running a rather large survey in early January called Community Engagement Insights. In order for it to be easily accessible to as many editors as possible in the entire Wikimedia movement we need help to translate the survey into as many languages as we can. The purpose of the survey is to know how well we are supporting the work of Wikimedians and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions that are shared through the survey will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information about the survey on meta.[1] We need some help translating the survey from English into the following 10 key languages: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Russian. Translations in additional languages as also welcome, as long as the survey can be fully translated in those languages. We will be using a Google spreadsheet to perform the translations. This is a logistical decision, as moving translations from Meta-wiki to Qualtrics (the platform of choice to hold the survey) is very complicated. I know that it is customary to perform outreach through the community on Meta when it comes to translations, however, given the size and possible impact of the survey, I am trying to minimize pre-exposure of the questions to avoid survey bias. For that reason, I’m directly reaching out to WMF staff, affiliates and highly trusted community members like you instead. Keep in mind that you don’t have to carry all the burden of the translation alone should you decide to help; this can be spread among several translators working together on the same language. We may also hold online sessions where groups can translate together (I will be helping to translate in Spanish and Portuguese). If you’re willing to assist, I would kindly ask for your help in obtaining the best data we can by not sharing with other users any of the questions on the survey, unless with another trusted community member willing to co-translate with you. If you are interested in helping and have some free time over the next two weeks, please respond to me directly to let me know which language you can help translate and I will follow up with more information. Our deadline for the translations to be completed is December 9th. I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you everyone! Edward [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_Insi… -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist (Survey Specialist), and Affiliations Committee Liaison Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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Last call: Help us translate a global Wikimedia suvey
by Edward Galvez 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

Hi everyone, One final call for help to translate a large global Wikimedia survey! The survey will help us learn from our communities how well we support them and how to improve our support. ***Your translations will help ensure we hear from as many people as possible.*** Please email me directly with the language you'd like to translate and I can send you the link. We unfortunately have to use google sheets for translating because of importing issues with using translatewiki/meta. We are hoping next year this will be different. We need help with the following languages. The percentages is our estimated progress so far: French, 68.80% Polish, 34.82% Dutch, 26.38% Russian, 25.82% Farsi, 22.84% Japanese, 20.99% Simplified Chinese, 20.71% Ukrainian, 6.67% Portuguese, 1.99% Hebrew, 0.00% Korean, 0.00% Swedish, 0.00% Turkish, 0.00% I will send a separate email later this week to ask for help with the mass message translation as well. Thank you all so much. Really appreciate your help! All the best, Edward -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist (Survey Specialist), and Affiliations Committee Liaison Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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