Re: [Translators-l] Major changes to the Save button: please translate a message for me

-- Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder < ssnyder@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thank you all for your help so far. > > The page name is of almost no importance, because almost no one except us > will see it. People will mostly see this on their local wikis. I do > congratulate Philippe Verdy on correctly decoding the page title. :-) > > MassMessage unfortunately does not permit translated headers. Being able > to provide translated ==Section headings== is high on my personal wishlist > for future improvements. In the meantime, if anyone happens to see these > messages on the Village Pumps and similar pages, and wants to replace the > header with something locally intelligible, then I would be grateful. (I > suspect that is universally true, regardless of who's sending the message > or what the message is about.) > > Again, thank you. You all are awesome. > > > -- > Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder > Community Liaison > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Philippe Verdy verdy_p@wanadoo.fr wrote: > >> The page itself has a translatable title, but I doubt it will be used as >> is for posting a message. >> >> May be we should add a translatable section heading in this page (that >> could then be used for posting to other talk pages or as the subject line >> of an email). >> >> However, the page says it will be announced in the Tech News letter, >> which already has its own headings (it won't be posted twice I think). So >> in my opinion, there should just be a link from the Tech news to this page >> (which may be updated later with complements for the release). >> >> So for now just translate the page title, it should be enough. The base >> pagename "Editing" is most probably related to the work of the "Editing" >> Team in the MediaWiki development at the WMF, but unfortunately the subtile >> used, with only the term "/Publish", is very imprecise too generic, it >> should have been more like "/Save or Publish buttons for a new page >> or changes") >> >> >> 2016-08-02 3:21 GMT+02:00 גיא כהן guycn1@gmail.com: >> >>> Hebrew also done, but I have a question: >>> How can I translate the title of the section for this message? I really >>> don't want this message to be posted with an English title in our wiki... >>> >>> 2016-08-02 0:51 GMT+03:00 Philippe Verdy verdy_p@wanadoo.fr: >>> >>>> French done (including the news page). >>>> >>>> Note: I fixed the code of this news page to use "bdi" tags within the >>>> hidden tvars for button labels, because the news page displays a translated >>>> language which is not necessarily the same as the user language used to >>>> render the button labels (this causes issues notably for the surrounding >>>> punctuations if these languages are not using the same direction: the page >>>> in English could be read while the user's language would be Arabic... or >>>> the reverse). I've checked the few existing translations of this page to >>>> make sure they were consistant. >>>> >>>> The links to the two important button labels to translate, are also now >>>> made bolder (it should be evident where to go to translate these buttons, >>>> without having to look for the labels in the thousands of translations for >>>> MediaWiki using searches in a long list). At first I was wondering where to >>>> go to translate these two buttons. Now with the help page, it is clear >>>> (even if translators on translatewiki.net don't read it completely and >>>> don't care really about this news page). >>>> >>>> 2016-08-01 22:24 GMT+02:00 Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com: >>>> >>>>> Italian done. >>>>> >>>>> Vito >>>>> >>>>> 2016-08-01 21:52 GMT+02:00 Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder < >>>>> ssnyder@wikimedia.org>: >>>>> >>>>>> Please translate this message: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>>>>> wiki/Editing/Publish >>>>>> >>>>>> This message describes a significant change to the most important >>>>>> button on any wiki: the "Save page" button will soon be split into two >>>>>> labels: "Publish page" (for new page creations) and "Publish changes" (for >>>>>> edits to existing pages). >>>>>> >>>>>> There are also links in the message for the button labels. Please >>>>>> check those translations and make sure that they are accurate. Those >>>>>> translations will be used by default at all MediaWiki installations (not >>>>>> just Wikipedia and its sister projects), so precise, accurate translations >>>>>> are important. >>>>>> >>>>>> Experienced editors don't need to read the button's label to know >>>>>> what it does, but user research over the years strongly supports this >>>>>> change for new contributors. This change will be important to people who >>>>>> teach new editors or who maintain help documentation. >>>>>> >>>>>> I hope to send this message to more than 600 WMF wikis, in more than >>>>>> 200 languages, at the end of this week. Every language is important for >>>>>> this change. Please help me if you can. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder >>>>>> Community Liaison >>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Translators-l mailing list >>>>>> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Translators-l mailing list >>>>> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Translators-l mailing list >>>> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Translators-l mailing list >> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >> >> >