Hello,
I didn't wish to waste translators time by translating into a language we wouldn't use in this round of reaching out to Wikipedia communities. My apologies for any confusion as I was unaware that it would acutely prevent - as in stop you from saving - translations to any languages outside the list.
Philippe, I hope you can see by the sheer number of languages I did ask for that I had no intent to forbid any language! Thank you for sharing you concerns, I appreciate the education in the nuance of language. Sincerely.
I've removed the check from the box preventing translations.
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
Well it still does not help at all the small communities if all they can do is translate only from English and not some other major secondary language they know and use regularly. It's a fact that French is blocked with the yellow message when saving...
2017-04-13 17:44 GMT+02:00 Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org:
Hello,
I didn't wish to waste translators time by translating into a language we wouldn't use in this round of reaching out to Wikipedia communities. My apologies for any confusion as I was unaware that it would acutely prevent
- as in stop you from saving - translations to any languages outside the
list.
Philippe, I hope you can see by the sheer number of languages I did ask for that I had no intent to forbid any language! Thank you for sharing you concerns, I appreciate the education in the nuance of language. Sincerely.
I've removed the check from the box preventing translations.
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
Issue solved for French, Spanish and Portuguese. I see that Swedish and Ukrainian was also completed (notably because there are minority regional languages in Sweden and Ukraine).
Note that I have splitted some long tranlsation units. Its best to keep them short. Don't be too "lazy" by including everything in a single <translate></translate> section :
* long units discourage translators: you can perfectly split long paragraphs on sentences boundaries whose mening is self-contained and does not depend too much on the context of use (just don't break sentences in the middle). * and every list should be split with one unit per item.
This also allows better reuse of the translation memory and allows further updates with additional items if needed.
2017-04-13 20:10 GMT+02:00 Philippe Verdy verdy_p@wanadoo.fr:
Well it still does not help at all the small communities if all they can do is translate only from English and not some other major secondary language they know and use regularly. It's a fact that French is blocked with the yellow message when saving...
2017-04-13 17:44 GMT+02:00 Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org:
Hello,
I didn't wish to waste translators time by translating into a language we wouldn't use in this round of reaching out to Wikipedia communities. My apologies for any confusion as I was unaware that it would acutely prevent
- as in stop you from saving - translations to any languages outside the
list.
Philippe, I hope you can see by the sheer number of languages I did ask for that I had no intent to forbid any language! Thank you for sharing you concerns, I appreciate the education in the nuance of language. Sincerely.
I've removed the check from the box preventing translations.
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
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