Before the foundraising, I propose to update the foundation wiki, http://wikimediafoudation.org. I tried to update some pages like "Main page", "Our Projects" and other pages I could update with assistance of some editors and traslators. Until now, besides En, main page was updated in four languages pages (DE, FR, JA, PL). Here I am grateful for our friend translators.
But we need much more assistance, more translators.
Here is the current situation of major pages: Home - De En Es Fi Fr It Ja Ko Pl Pt Zh About Wikimedia - En Fi Fr It Ja Ko Zh- Our Projects - En Fr It Ja Nl Pt Zh Fundraising - Ar Bg Cs De En Es Fi Fr He It Ja Ko Nl Pl Pt Sv Zh
And of course other language translations are welcome.
Now there are language barriers and lack of information for us, most of pages on the wmf site remain still not updated. And I expect many visitors of the wmf site, not only donors but also genuine visitors enjoy browsing the wmf site. In my personal view, it were sad only one page is avalable in tongues I can understand ...
Some of them was not edited since last September and I feel strongly they need to be renewed: it is a bit clumsy "the latest news" ended in the last September. And I found almost every page should be a bit outdated (it is a self-criticism rather than blame. I am an wmf site editor and left pages too for a long time).
I recommend and ask you to check the main page in your language(s) of the wmf site. Particularly the language which has their own donation page. It would be nicer and more frinedly, if we can provide the visitors at least three other pages: Main Page, About and Our Projects. (Any suggestions?)
If you would like to join us, please consider to give a look on meta, Translation requests/WMF. URL is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF#Home
The close inforamtion of update are available on that page. If you have a question, please ask it on its talk, #wikimedia or my talk.
Your assistance will be appliciated. See you again on meta. ;-)
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:36:01 +0900, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
But we need much more assistance, more translators.
Here is the current situation of major pages: Home - De En Es Fi Fr It Ja Ko Pl Pt Zh About Wikimedia - En Fi Fr It Ja Ko Zh- Our Projects - En Fr It Ja Nl Pt Zh Fundraising - Ar Bg Cs De En Es Fi Fr He It Ja Ko Nl Pl Pt Sv Zh
It's looking better already. Sweet. It would also be nice to have a brief "News" page with translations into a few languages, as you noted.
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:46:01 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
It's looking better already. Sweet.
Indeed. Some recent efforts of translators make it much more sweetend. Just now I update Es "Home" and "About" on the WMF site thanks for Seli-Haldan, the Spanish Wikipedian Proofedit by another Spanish speaking Wikipedian will be appriciated.
And I appriciate too many translators who engaged "Wikimedia needs your help". I hope to see their names again on the list of Wikimedia Quarto vol.2' translators ;-)
It would also be nice to have a brief "News" page with translations into a few languages, as you noted.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/summary/en is my first atempt. Any your improvement will be appliciated.
Also I created a translation request page about project related matters in the German Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Übersetzungswünsche and as an experiment turn a Wikinews related article to a redirect to German project (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%C3%9Cbersetzungsw%C3%BCnsche).
If you prefer to work on your local wiki, it could be a way to promote translations on your wiki.
Cheers,
translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org