Yeah sadly, however I'll send out another mass notice for the main translations page (I sent out one for elections early on a couple weeks ago too).
James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy minhhuywiki@gmail.com wrote:
I see, I am impressed by the WMF's efforts for translaton work of this election. However, I think there should be a public announcement for translators who signed in Special:TranslatorSignUp, or maybe it has been mentioned in a public site but I have missed. :)
Good point, but it's currently not possible technically to send such a translation notifications for banner translations (only for page translations): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58187
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trần_Nguyễn_Minh_Huy) Supporter, Vietnames Wikimedia Projects
2015-05-02 21:37 GMT+07:00 James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org:
Just to clarify: The reason they wanted it as translated as possible is
to
make it easier for more, non English speaking, communities to
participate in
the election in their native language and understand what's happening.
James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:33 AM, James Alexander <
jalexander@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Minata Hatsune <
minatahatsune@gmail.com>
wrote:
I am a translator working on Vietnamese language. I was surprised to
see
the translation in the two links above is done correctly (although
I've
edited a bit for more understandable). It's not like someone has used
Translate or other machine translation tools.
The translator is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varnent. I am curious whether he also understands this language? Despite his
personal page
did not show it. I also have the same questions with the Vietnamese translation of Call for candidates. It was done by a staff of WMF
(Azariv),
and I don't think he could understand a strange language such as
Vietnamese.
I am active in many Wikimedia projects in Vietnamese, but had never
seen him
before.
Hi Minata,
The board had as one of it's goals this year to have as much translated as possible for the board and FDC Elections (especially the board
elections)
because of that they asked me to pay for some professional
translations for
some targeted languages (mostly popular languages in different areas
of the
world, my boss Philippe picked them earlier for the strategy
consultation a
couple months ago) and Vietnamese was one of them.
To be honest I've found community members make the best translations (especially given that some words are Wikimedia specific) but given the large amount of text and the short time schedule the elections have we wanted to ensure we'd get some translations in on time and allow
community
members to do the quick fixes that make it more understandable and
that much
better. Both Alex (Azariv) and Varnent were plugging those paid
translations
in.
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