Hello wonderful translator friends,
The Maps team at the foundation would like to make the Maps Terms of
Use available in as many languages as we can.
We could greatly use your help in translating this document. It is
linked to from every interactive map. Example map:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#/map/0
Please see the following page on Meta for the translatable version of
the Terms of Use. Thank you for your time and energy. It is
appreciated.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
Please translate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editing/Columns_for_references
Direct link for translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-E…
This is 8-sentence message is about a change to how references are
formatted.
There is one perhaps tricky thing about the translation, and that is what a
"reference" is. The thing that's changing is how <ref> notes are displayed
on wikis. On the English Wikipedia, these have been called "refs",
"references", "citations", "footnotes", "notes", and more. I've included a
few of these synonyms for the English version, but please translate it into
whatever makes sense for your language. If your language has standardized
on one term, then please just use that one term.
This message will be sent next week to all of the Wikiquotes, and later
(with a different date) will be re-used for other projects (Wikipedias,
Wikivoyages, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, etc.).
As always, THANK YOU for your work. Translation is the true language of an
international movement.
--
Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding. This email may be of interest to folks are interested in
translations, language engineering, and contributors' interfaces.
Pine
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From: Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:46 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Changes in the Contributors Team
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Wikimedia Developers,
With the change to a new annual plan and fiscal year, we’ve made some
changes to how the Contributors team, formerly known as the Editing
department, is organized. I believe these changes will help us better serve
our communities and make judicious use of donor funds, by making our teams
more capable of taking on large projects while maintaining production
software. I also believe these changes will better support for our staff by
helping many of them who have been wearing many hats for a long time
achieve greater focus.
The first and most significant change is that the Language and
Collaboration teams have merged to become the Global Collaboration team.
Runa Bhattacharjee, who has managed the Language team since 2014, will
manage the new combined team. Roan Kattouw, who has led and managed the
Collaboration team for the past two years, has now taken off his people
manager hat, and is now focused on being the Lead Engineer of the new team.
By merging, this new team will have the ability to incorporate engineering,
design, QA and community engagement more fluidly, meeting the specific
needs of each project and allowing team members to share their individual
expertise to a greater number of products.
Additionally, as Toby mentioned last month, the Dan Garry has joined the
team responsible for editing tools like VisualEditor, allowing James to
step away from his 5-year stint as the Product Manager for VisualEditor and
focus on leading product for Contributors. With this change comes a new
name for the VisualEditor team, which is now (back to being called) the
Editing team.
It will likely take some time for these changes to fully propagate through
all the wikis and development tools and many staff are currently in
transitional roles. If you have any questions about these changes, please
let me know and I’ll do my best to help you.
Thanks,
Trevor Parscal
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Hey everyone,
apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited:
we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in
the promising Structured Data project. [1]
Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators,
GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to
finding out soon.
So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend
anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact
me personally (not here).
Thanks!
Elitre (WMF)
Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3gjf21#.WMGV0Rih…