On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy
<minhhuywiki(a)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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Minata Hatsune <minatahatsune(a)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 Google
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.
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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