(Apologies for possibly breaking the thread — I've just re–enabled mail delivery from this list.)
Hi Philippe, thank you for your comments and ideas; I really appreciate your taking the time to post your thoughts on how to make Tech News better.
As far as I know, Tech News is the first global weekly newsletter that is being regularly translated into around 5-6 languages, so we're learning from our mistakes and really blazing the trail here[1].
Back to the topic, I would agree with Niklas: since we're trying not to change things that are repeated in every issue if not absolutely required to (though I myself have changed a couple of <tvar> recently), it should be possible for you to use existing translations from the translation memory. Using templates would, in my opinion, only complicate the matters and make it harder for us to send the issue to local talk pages and village pumps (but I think Guillaume would know more about this).
For now, we changed the publication time to Saturday evening, UTC time, for reasons stated by Guillaume. /This particular/ issue was published around 8 PM UTC (10 PM Geneva time) — do you think it'll be helpful if we tried to publish the issues a bit earlier, for instance at around 8 PM Geneva time (6 PM UTC)?
We still aim to have the issue posted globally in 24 hours after following the publication, so this probably wouldn't change much, but still — if that'll help you, then I guess we can think it over.
== References == * [1] There is of course, Wikimedia Highlights and there was Wikimedia Quatro before that, but the former is a monthly, and the latter was a, well, quarterly...
-- Tomasz