2012/7/19 Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki@gmail.com>
Hello, I don't understand what the transcom is going to do.
Fundraising stuff and other inefficient WMF tasks (if any) should be done by the WMF itself now.
Translate extension stuff should be handled by whoever is/wants to be translation admin as a Meta-Wiki process.
The main task of the Transcom seems to be moving the old translations to the new system and fix all broken old translation requests but you imply that this will not be one of its tasks (otherwise they'd need to know the old system).
In short, we should work on <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Translate_extension> and make sure that Meta actually uses the Translate extension (currently only a fraction of the wiki uses it and it's a huge mess, worsened by the murder of [[TR]]).
Nemo
You are right, moving over pages that need it is something the committee should be involved in. Forgot to include that in the previous e-mail.
The thought here is to have several volunteers who are capable of handling all things related to page translation with the Translate extension, who can help Foundation staffers, Wikimania volunteers, chapters and whoever need it when they have pages that need translation. It would only make sense that all committee members are translation admins, and all translation admins are committee members. Maybe it should just be called "translation administrators group" or something, that is something that can be discussed. Either way, the purpose is to assist people who are putting up translations, as well as translators having questions.
I 100 % agree about transitioning pages to the Translate extension, though I don't think it's a huge mess. The way it is implemented on Meta can be improved, but a think "huge mess" is a bit of an overstatement.
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