An example is the French translation that I had completed 100% just a few minutes after receiving the notice for translation. Then it has been sent but one translation has been forgotten in the published page and in the notification sent to other user's pages or community pages, or emails. Now this missing translation displays a "clock" sumbol showing that it is desynchronized.
I don't know why it was forgotten, but it is clear that translations have been taken MUCH too soon, not waiting any reasonnable time, while we were still working to translate them just in the few hours after we received the mail informing us that a new translation should be performed.
In addition, once the notifications have been sent to user by the notifier bot, they are no longer updated on the Meta page. May be that's because I had translated all these very soon, but the translations were missing someone for reviewing and confirming it (the review was forgotten). For this reason, that string now shows only the English version when all the rest is translated.
There's something wrong in the agenda about these weeky notifications for software updates. In my opinion the transalted notifications should be given at least one more week before being sent to subscribers. And the landing page should still be updated (at least for having a more complete translation of the history that we navigate with links on top of pages.)
2013/6/5 Yusuke Matsubara whym@whym.org
Hi Guillaume,
Wouldn't make sense to give a bit more time for translation? In general, because the time zone difference can get in the way, the one-day deadline may not be really workable for people in some parts of the world.
Best, Yusuke
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings,
The latest tech newsletter is ready for translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/23
We will send it tomorrow, in order to give a little time for translation. The translations that are complete or mostly complete will be posted on the wikis in that language.
Note: These two templates appear on the page and need to be translated separately (if translations aren't already done): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Tech_header https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Tech_news_nav
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. I appreciate your help and feedback.
-- Guillaume Paumier
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