Hi all,
as I noted a few weeks ago, the user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
files will be separated from admins. This will first take effect on next
Monday, and I wrote a simple announcement explaining the change and what
communities can do about it. Please help translate it before then!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creation_of_separate_user_group_for_editing…
thanks
Gergő
Hi, I am forwarding this email to others who may be interested. It would be nice if interpretation could be available in many languages. Thank you for your initiative.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
-------- Original message --------From: Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <frhd(a)yandex.com> Date: 7/15/18 2:51 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Interpreting Wikimedia broadcasts
Greetings from Russia!
This is to let you know that beginning with this Wikimania broadcasts
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program#Remote_attendance
we'll try to volunteer-interpret all Wikimedia live events (or recordings thereof) into Russian.
Last night we tested with a smartphone & tablet using Wikimedia Research Showcase - July 2018 as a source & it seems to be working well enough. We observed 5-7 sec. delay, speaker speed above 120 words per minute & audio quality affecting my delivery results, but that's quite bearable for the economy class ticket. As a qualified conference interpreter with some experience of helping international groups over the web, I can pull this through in my free time.
The idea came about seeing the leaked version of the video-address by our middle-aged & older Wikimedians from Wikipedias in the languages of Russia community recorded for Wikimania-2018 participants (I understand total collection is on the way to Cape Town with Oleg Abarnikov of Wikimedia Russia from Moscow). It seemed to hint our elders from among participants of our 33 Active Wikipedias & other projects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Languages_of_Russia_Community_Use…
would actually also like to be exposed to whatever the English-speaking youngsters are learning via YouTube broadcasts. These local & Russian bilinguals are core contributors into local language Wikis, so respecting the request of our language guardians seemed important.
Regards,
farhad
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Hi translators,
I have three brief requests for translations during this month related to
the Inspire Campaign, where we are inviting ideas on how to measure aspects
of community health in Wikimedia projects (for example, related to editor
retention or the ability to learn how to successfully write a new article).
The two pages that need translation are the following:
- The *most important document *is the *text for the CentralNotice
banner*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNotice>.
If you would like to translate something, I would prefer you devote your
time to these two sentences if possible, as this is quite brief and will
reach many, many editors.
- The next thing to translate is the landing page for the Inspire
Campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>. Some
of this already done from past campaigns, but some prose is new for this
campaign specifically. Please note that the term "community health" does
not translate well in all languages. For instance, in German, the
term *guten
Arbeitsatmosphäre* (trans. "good working atmosphere") is preferred. If
you feel a direct translation in your language is awkward or carries
negative connotations, please let me know.
- The last page to translate is this page on developing an idea for
implementation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Develop>.
This does not need to be completed during the month-long campaign, but any
translation work on the page is appreciated. It is much longer, and I do
not expect this to be fully translated any time soon.
If translations could be provided for the first two items by Friday, July
27th, I would be very grateful.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding
translation. You can contact me via e-mail or my talk page on Meta. Thank
you for your work-- any amount of help you can provide is appreciated.
Take care,
Chris Schilling
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
Hello,
The Community Tech team looking to remove the Wikivoyage-specific extension
RelatedSites from our wikis. The software's use is duplicated by Wikidata's
site links, and is no longer needed.
This mainly affects the Greek, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese
language Wikivoyages. I have written a message to post to those projects,
and the message needs translating. This message does not need translating
into any additional languages, as it will not go to any other wikis:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan_(WMF)/RelatedSites
I would like post the message early next week, so if there is some time
this weekend to help translate the message I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
The team working on the mobile web wants to make templates that show
article messages work better. We are starting with templates that use a
specific template. In English the name is {{Ambox}} and there are many
other versions across the wikis. [0]
We have a short message we want to post on the talk page of these templates
on all Wikipedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Ambox_on_mobile
Your help translating this message means more template editors will be
aware of the change. They can take advantage of the improvements so more
people can see the important messages. Thank you for your help.
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5617634
Greetings,
As the subject says, global preferences are now available on all
single-user Wikimedia wikis. Global preferences do not work on our private
wikis.
The announcement will be going out tomorrow. If you get time, please check
over the translations we have and provide new translations if possible.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan_(WMF)/Global_preferences
Thank you for all you do!
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation