Thanks for alerting us a bit sooner. Well may be you created it on Saturday, but this was late and I actually got this mail on Sunday during the night, so I translated it on Sunday morning. Now we have at least 24 hours to translate them, this is still quite short, if there are not a lot of translators.
To help accelerate translations, it would be desirable to have a few fore templates for items that are present repeatedly every week (or most of them), in order to reduce the number of items to reduce or facilitate the edition.
E.g. translatable templates for
- "(bug #nnnn)", "Recent software changes", "Future software changes" (sometimes you may need to add specific sections that will need their own headings).
- the generic header : "Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available." (well this may change over time but it should contain stable things not intended to be present only for one week ; as this is general descriptions and instructions this should also apply to past news pages).
- the generic trailer with navigation links: "Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe." (same remark).
We should then only need to translate the effective news items in these two lists of news, faster, with reduced work. (However it may complicate the delivery of the news to other wikis or to subscrived emails.)
Is there a way to transclude directly some contents from Meta-Wiki to all other wikis, in order to avoid maintaining multiple templates, or to allow local wikis to simply navigate and present these news with a local template, which may allow selecting locally between several languages, notably on multilingual wikis (like Commons), or wikis in languages that require several presentations (like Chinese) or several transliterations (like Serbian) ?
May be a Lua module could help here, if Lua modules can read contents from other wikis: it was said that Lua shoul also allow editing wiki contents, at least on the local wiki, possibly on others but but I've never tried it and don"t know if this is possible according to different wiki policies, even if all users should now have their account unified with SUL, allowing more integration and cooperation across wikis.
[Like when importing an image to Commons directly when editing an article in Wikipedia to embed this image, including from Mobile Wikipedia. Once the image is posted, its description page may be completed later on Commons, and its categorization added, but as the image is immediately used and seen in a Wikipedia article (normally with a text description below it, also posted on Commons in the source language of this wiki), thecategorisation of the image in Commons may be helped now with tools using information collected from this referencing Wikipedia article and from the description; this is a useful enhanced integration scheme between Commons and Wikipedia that facilitates the edit work for everyone].
Note that news posted on Wikimedia wiki should better be done by posting them in a template of these wikis, and the posts to talk pages should be limited to a simple ==Heading== and {{template transclusion}}.
Thanks however for adding a link in "
Translations are available" added to the generic header, to show these translations that may be added after the notification was posted, to promote its translation if it's missing or incomplete), or for reading updated translations (fixing errors in unreviewed fast translations after the delivery of notifications).