Hey all,

The fundraising notice, after some tweaks and fixes, is now enabled on Meta, Commons, and all English-language projects. We're gearing up to enable it on other languages, but don't want to be throwing too much English text at people.

Translations for the notice are more centralized this year for a couple reasons:

* All projects will get the localized texts (including multilingual projects like Commons)

* Changes will update more quickly -- we had caching problems before where some people saw old text or no text days after it was changed. The new system updates within a few minutes.

Currently a meta admin is required to take the updates live, and a developer has to enable the notice for a particular site or language. I'm hoping to clean up that process over the coming days, though.

The headline text on the site notice is available for translation at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice

There are a lot of translations for the text that we'll switch in _later_ to go with the landing page under development:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Landing_page/Translations

but we need updates for the *current* text in a lot of languages.

Please test out the site notice as it appears on your wikis like this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/?sitenotice=yes http://zh.wikibooks.org/wiki/?sitenotice=yes etc

Let me know if your community's ready to turn it on as is.

We're also going to want to see updates for the donation forms. The old ones on http://wikimediafoundation.org still work, though we're trying to transition to new ones on http://donate.wikimedia.org/

There's a translation system for that new site which we can set up accounts for, but I'm not 100% sure how to go about all that yet. :) It's a learning experience.

We're also trying to get subtitled versions of the video with Jimmy up within the next few days. Subtitle files in .srt format are preferred; I can recode the videos from them and upload the new versions as they become available.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)