Hello everybody,
The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use, which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignuphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup]]. What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say, Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about that.
The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with translators, so please *sign up*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignupand help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late, so they weren't very widely translated. The appeals are:
- GorillaWarfare's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate – this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once or twice. :-) - Sengai's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see all fundraiser-related translations by going herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate. You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[Special:Translatehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate]] or at [[Translation requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests ]].
For now, live long and prosper. \V/
Great! Just one tiny bit of suggestion - after you submit, there is no indication that the submission is successful and the page remains unchanged. A bit unfriendly there. Who should I tell about this? Thanks! Best regards, [[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello everybody,
The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use, which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignuphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup]]. What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say, Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about that.
The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with translators, so please *sign up*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignupand help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late, so they weren't very widely translated. The appeals are:
- GorillaWarfare's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate –
this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once or twice. :-)
- Sengai's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't
have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see all fundraiser-related translations by going herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate. You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[Special:Translatehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate]] or at [[Translation requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests ]].
For now, live long and prosper. \V/
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Thanks, that is a good point! I have posted it as Bug 36959 [1].
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36959
2012/5/18 Benjamin Chen cnchenminqi@gmail.com
Great! Just one tiny bit of suggestion - after you submit, there is no indication that the submission is successful and the page remains unchanged. A bit unfriendly there. Who should I tell about this? Thanks! Best regards, [[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello everybody,
The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use, which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignuphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup]]. What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say, Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about that.
The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with translators, so please *sign up*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignupand help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late, so they weren't very widely translated. The appeals are:
- GorillaWarfare's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate –
this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once or twice. :-)
- Sengai's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't
have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see all fundraiser-related translations by going herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate. You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[ Special:Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate]] or at [[Translation requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests ]].
For now, live long and prosper. \V/
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Hello guys. I translated into Macedonian (mk) the updated updated Terms of use http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/mk long ago, but it does not show it on Foundation Wiki when you click on the banner that displays the notice (the banner itself does show in the correct language, though). What is the problem there? This has been the case for at least a couple of weeks now.
On 19 May 2012 04:29, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks, that is a good point! I have posted it as Bug 36959 [1].
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36959
2012/5/18 Benjamin Chen cnchenminqi@gmail.com
Great! Just one tiny bit of suggestion - after you submit, there is no indication that the submission is successful and the page remains unchanged. A bit unfriendly there. Who should I tell about this? Thanks! Best regards, [[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello everybody,
The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use, which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignuphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup]]. What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say, Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about that.
The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with translators, so please *sign up*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignupand help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late, so they weren't very widely translated. The appeals are:
- GorillaWarfare's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate –
this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once or twice. :-)
- Sengai's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't
have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see all fundraiser-related translations by going herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate. You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[ Special:Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate]] or at [[Translation requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests ]].
For now, live long and prosper. \V/
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
It looks like the status on that was set to published but it didn't actually get published. I'm doing it now. ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Bojan Jankuloski < bojan.jankuloski@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello guys. I translated into Macedonian (mk) the updated updated Terms of use http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/mk long ago, but it does not show it on Foundation Wiki when you click on the banner that displays the notice (the banner itself does show in the correct language, though). What is the problem there? This has been the case for at least a couple of weeks now.
On 19 May 2012 04:29, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks, that is a good point! I have posted it as Bug 36959 [1].
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36959
2012/5/18 Benjamin Chen cnchenminqi@gmail.com
Great! Just one tiny bit of suggestion - after you submit, there is no indication that the submission is successful and the page remains unchanged. A bit unfriendly there. Who should I tell about this? Thanks! Best regards, [[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello everybody,
The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use, which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignuphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup]]. What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say, Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about that.
The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with translators, so please *sign up*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignupand help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late, so they weren't very widely translated. The appeals are:
- GorillaWarfare's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate –
this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once or twice. :-)
- Sengai's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't
have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see all fundraiser-related translations by going herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate. You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[ Special:Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate]] or at [[Translation requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests ]].
For now, live long and prosper. \V/
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Thanks a lot! One other thing. The banner on mk.wiki leads to this page http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use%20(2012)/en?utm_source=TOU_...http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use%20%282012%29/en?utm_source=TOU_top, i.e. has the 'en' rather than the 'mk' prefix. Is this something that will change automatically, once you've published the translation, or will it need changing somewhere manually?
Cheers
On 20 May 2012 16:28, Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.org wrote:
It looks like the status on that was set to published but it didn't actually get published. I'm doing it now. ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Bojan Jankuloski < bojan.jankuloski@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello guys. I translated into Macedonian (mk) the updated updated Terms of use http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/mk long ago, but it does not show it on Foundation Wiki when you click on the banner that displays the notice (the banner itself does show in the correct language, though). What is the problem there? This has been the case for at least a couple of weeks now.
On 19 May 2012 04:29, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks, that is a good point! I have posted it as Bug 36959 [1].
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36959
2012/5/18 Benjamin Chen cnchenminqi@gmail.com
Great! Just one tiny bit of suggestion - after you submit, there is no indication that the submission is successful and the page remains unchanged. A bit unfriendly there. Who should I tell about this? Thanks! Best regards, [[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Jon Harald Søby jsoby@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello everybody,
The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use, which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignuphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup]]. What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say, Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about that.
The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with translators, so please *sign up*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignupand help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late, so they weren't very widely translated. The appeals are:
- GorillaWarfare's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate –
this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once or twice. :-)
- Sengai's appealhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't
have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see all fundraiser-related translations by going herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate. You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[ Special:Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate]] or at [[Translation requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests ]].
For now, live long and prosper. \V/
-- Jon Harald Søby Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
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On 20 May 2012 07:24, Bojan Jankuloski bojan.jankuloski@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot! One other thing. The banner on mk.wiki leads to this page http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use%20(2012)/en?utm_source=TOU_...http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use%20%282012%29/en?utm_source=TOU_top, i.e. has the 'en' rather than the 'mk' prefix. Is this something that will change automatically, once you've published the translation, or will it need changing somewhere manually?
Cheers
Hi Bojan,
Thanks for reporting this, that was another change that needed to be made through the Central Notice on Meta-Wiki ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NoticeTemplate/view?template=TOU_top&...), I've fixed that now so it should take you to the /mk sub-page. One of the issues that seems to be occurring is that some translators (perhaps the newer ones) are marking pages as published as I imagine they think that if they mark a page as published it will publish the page. I was discussing this with Niklas and Siebrand (the authors of the Translate extension), and am looking into possibly restricting who can mark a page as published, so that only Translation administrators (or Meta-Wiki admins?) will be able to mark the page as published, and when doing so they will be able to make sure that everything else is done - such as the correct link in the Central Notice.
Thehelpfulone
Thanks for doing that. It works nicely now.
I agree with this. The 'published' option creates confusion and should be the sole preserve of those implementing the translations. Even I have been confused about it on occasions, because there are places (such as on Meta) where you can clearly see that the translation appears as soon as you've done it (even partially). Of course, this is not the same as its implementation on other places, such as Foundation wiki, but newer translators who don't know all particulars can see that the translation has appeared on Meta and opt to set it as 'Published' - which it clearly is, locally - and be unaware that the "publish" refers to another place where it actually has not been published. To avoid all this, it is far wiser to have 'Ready' as the most advanced option available, and then the person implementing them can have a look and set them as published when they've been actually published in the required places.
Thanks for bringing up the issue. Much appreciated
On 20 May 2012 23:15, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 May 2012 07:24, Bojan Jankuloski bojan.jankuloski@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot! One other thing. The banner on mk.wiki leads to this page http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use%20(2012)/en?utm_source=TOU_...http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use%20%282012%29/en?utm_source=TOU_top, i.e. has the 'en' rather than the 'mk' prefix. Is this something that will change automatically, once you've published the translation, or will it need changing somewhere manually?
Cheers
Hi Bojan,
Thanks for reporting this, that was another change that needed to be made through the Central Notice on Meta-Wiki ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NoticeTemplate/view?template=TOU_top&...), I've fixed that now so it should take you to the /mk sub-page. One of the issues that seems to be occurring is that some translators (perhaps the newer ones) are marking pages as published as I imagine they think that if they mark a page as published it will publish the page. I was discussing this with Niklas and Siebrand (the authors of the Translate extension), and am looking into possibly restricting who can mark a page as published, so that only Translation administrators (or Meta-Wiki admins?) will be able to mark the page as published, and when doing so they will be able to make sure that everything else is done - such as the correct link in the Central Notice.
Thehelpfulone
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