Thank you for your comments,. On 8/31/06, Ceila Sanchez <ceila.sanchez(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: Good question. Those messages are part of Boardvote interface which allows you (me not ;x) to vote for the candidates. However not everyone can vote, so those people will get one of those messages. May anyone who have voted through it want to add more details? ;) As for boardvote_entry. It will be replaced later. Since we are now completing the final list of candidates including some clarification about vote eligibility, and it will be released after an appointment of some new staff to the Election Committee is announced to the community. All should happen within a day. Thank you for your aids, Tom Chiu and Zuirdj. Would you please ask your sister projects' admins to update those messages on their wiki, if you have a time? To Anyfile. Good point. Currently I suggest the meta page can serve you in that purpose like "quick translations" page. Or is it the time we are better to consider a translation dedicated wiki, instead of meta as our platform? Will this wiki be opened or closed? And why? What kind of translations goes there? Only Wikimedia related or any translations including TotW? And why? ... There are many things we may want to consider. If you let us know your idea more closely, on the centralized place for translation, it would be nice. Cheers, -- Kizu Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *

Since I realized the update hasn't been taken down globally yet, to wikitech-l I mailed for asking developer's fafor. I am not sure what will happen in every detail. It might mean your local update will be overriden automatically and misfortunately. Or not. I beg your pardon, my lack of tech knowledge enough inform you what is expected. However I suppose a message in another language might be better than a message in your language but outdated. I might be wrong. Hopefully not - sorry for your all inconvinience. I made Japanese versions on meta. If you prefer to work on wiki and later move them to your project, please use meta page as your platform. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_UI_text_2006 On 8/31/06, Tom Ka Chun Chiu <tomchiukc(a)gmail.com> wrote: Exactly. In case of Chinese Wikipedia, please follow the procedure on the below 0. You may want to give a look to meta or give my previous post. 0.5 ... and want to make a translation somewhere, not directly (but of course you can be bold to edit directly those pages and the boldness is encouraged here on Wikimedia project ;p ) 1. Edit [[MediaWiki:boardvote_notqualified]] http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:boardvote_notqualified You may want to optimize the message (I added "Sorry" for Japanese people. Since they prefer such politeness, for instance) 2. Save ;) 3. Edit [[MediaWiki:boardvote_notloggedin]] http:zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:boardvote_notloggedin 4. Save again ;) 5. Your work for updating is done. Thank you! In a similar way, admins may update those files on their wikis. Thank you for your cooperations! -- Kizu Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *

My points about cordinating translation of board election notices was both giuridical and technical (actually the technical one was that iussed my attention). If the messages about the election should be the same in meaning on every project and on every languagge (since the election is only one election that is wide to all of the porjects and languages) there is no point why they should exist in different version (except of course for translation in different languages, but there is no point why there can be two different versions in the same language). More generically, who has the power to decide what should be written in these message? WHat should be happen if, for example, a date is mispelled? It has not much sense that the English version is checked by the Election officials and the others not (of course I do not want that the officials should know all the languages and check them all, but just that the message are posted somewhere on meta or on the foundation web site with the "officialized" transaltion). It would be strange that the same message is different in different project on the same language. But the origin of my previous message was mainly technical. You (Aphaia) have said in the first message of this thread Now my knowladge in this argument is embarassing. Are these messages part of the standard mediawiki package? Are they part of Messages.php (and trnaslation/customization) How does the update by the "special user" "MediaWiki default" work? Would it replace only the message that have never been edited? (if not an already trnaslated message would be replaced by the English version) Would it replace with the new English version or with the new version in the appropriate language? If this arise some technical question it would be interesting to add into this discussion the technical expert (I do not dare since I have never looked at the code, perhaps this iusse has already been set) Is there a way to have a file separated by language.php to deal with these company's message? AnyFile