Because there is a total lack of documented processes to tell people how to do this correctly.<div><br clear="all"><div>___________________</div><div><div>Philippe Beaudette</div><div>Director, Community Advocacy<br></div>

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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il" target="_blank">amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2012/4/25 James Alexander &lt;<a href="mailto:jalexander@wikimedia.org">jalexander@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;:<br>
<div class="im">&gt; I&#39;m saying that at the moment they are not being translated in either way.<br>
&gt; At this point I don&#39;t think that&#39;s bad<br>
<br>
</div>That is bad because lots and lots of users see messages in a language<br>
they don&#39;t know. (And users of RTL projects also see them with broken<br>
punctuation.)<br>
<br>
Why were these banners enabled before proper translation?<br>
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי<br>
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬<br>
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