For Welsh, the link from the 'donate' button in the sidebar now points to the banner still points to the Welsh version. But the link from the central banner still goes to the English landing page here http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/GB?utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_...
When this was last discussed (see Dec 5 postings), it was left with Joseph Seddon to fix the link from the central banner and the 'Read now' image. But unfortunately, he doesn't have the time to fix this now, so we will just have to wait until he does have the time (in a week or so, I believe) or someone else comes forward who can do it.
Have just checked yi - same situation.
Regards, Eleri
--- On Sat, 11/12/10, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
From: Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org Subject: Re: [Translators-l] Translation unuseless ? To: "Wikimedia Translators" translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, 11 December, 2010, 16:59
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Eleri James elerijms@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Can anybody confirm that any non-state language has managed to get a link from a banner to an own-language page operated by a Wikimedia chapter to work in practice? It would be nice to know that it does work in practice rather than just in theory.
Hasn't this worked for both you and Redaktor with WMUK/cy and WMUK/yi already?
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Eleri James elerijms@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
For Welsh, the link from the 'donate' button in the sidebar now points to the banner still points to the Welsh version. But the link from the central banner still goes to the English landing page here
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/GB?utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_...
When this was last discussed (see Dec 5 postings), it was left with Joseph Seddon to fix the link from the central banner and the 'Read now' image. But unfortunately, he doesn't have the time to fix this now, so we will just have to wait until he does have the time (in a week or so, I believe) or someone else comes forward who can do it.
Have just checked yi - same situation.
Oh, yeah. That's because they have their URL hardcoded and need to change it to catch the language information like we do.
When they do that, you'll get a link like this: < http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:LandingCheck?landing_page=WMFJA1... Which leads you to the proper page -- so it should definitely work in practice. :-)
Eleri James napisa:
For Welsh, the link from the 'donate' button in the sidebar now points to the banner still points to the Welsh version. But the link from the central banner still goes to the English landing page here http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/GB?utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_...
When this was last discussed (see Dec 5 postings), it was left with Joseph Seddon to fix the link from the central banner and the 'Read now' image. But unfortunately, he doesn't have the time to fix this now, so we will just have to wait until he does have the time (in a week or so, I believe) or someone else comes forward who can do it.
Have just checked yi - same situation.
Current state for Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian Wikipedias:
1. Banner leads to the page in German of Wikimedia chapter Germany 2. Link "Donate" in sidebar leads to the "GERMAN!" version of Jimmy's appeal 3. The new banner has German text.
These three points reduce translation of fundraiser texts for minority languages to absurdity! My translations appear *nowhere*.
Why is not linked to site
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Now/hsb
as in the last years?
That's a good survey of fundraiser.
Regards, Michael
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Michael Wolf milupo@sorbzilla.de wrote:
Current state for Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian Wikipedias:
- Banner leads to the page in German of Wikimedia chapter Germany
- Link "Donate" in sidebar leads to the "GERMAN!" version of Jimmy's appeal
- The new banner has German text.
Again, this is because Wikimedia Deutschland has fundraising powers in Germany, so you are getting WMDE's banners. (They're currently running an appeal from Pavel, which has banners that are just in German.)
If you want to see if you can translate those banners and pages into hsb and dsb, you'll have to ask WMDE, unfortunately.
These three points reduce translation of fundraiser texts for minority languages to absurdity! My translations appear *nowhere*.
I'm sorry it feels this way, but, again, your translations *are* published: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/hsb / http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/dsb
If you were not in Germany, you *would* see your translations and you would see what I see: http://hsb.wikipedia.org/?country=US / http://dsb.wikipedia.org/?country=US. If you were someone living in the part of Lusatia in Poland, or you were in the United States, you would see your translation.
Why is not linked to site
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Now/hsb
as in the last years?
That's last year's donation page, not this year's.
That's a good survey of fundraiser.
Regards, Michael
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Casey Brown napisa:
Again, this is because Wikimedia Deutschland has fundraising powers in Germany, so you are getting WMDE's banners. (They're currently running an appeal from Pavel, which has banners that are just in German.)
But the first banner about Jimmy's appeal was in the Sorbian languages.
If you want to see if you can translate those banners and pages into hsb and dsb, you'll have to ask WMDE, unfortunately.
hat's clear we have already spoken about this in earlier messages. I have already contacted Till Mletzko of WMDE and unfortunately it is so that the WMDE page can translated not befoe next year.
These three points reduce translation of fundraiser texts for minority languages to absurdity! My translations appear *nowhere*.
I'm sorry it feels this way, but, again, your translations *are* published:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/hsb / http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/dsb
Yes, of course, but some days ago these page were at least reachable by the Donate link of the sidebar. Now I get the German version of the text. Why it has been changed?
If you were not in Germany, you *would* see your translations and you would see what I see:http://hsb.wikipedia.org/?country=US / http://dsb.wikipedia.org/?country=US. If you were someone living in the part of Lusatia in Poland, or you were in the United States, you would see your translation.
That is absurd. The translations are for Sorbs and the majority of Sorbs lives in Germany. Isn't it e.g. possible to use http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA1/hsb adding a link to WMDE on this page? The translations would be "interposed" then. The translations woud appear *and* the legal affairs for fundraising in Germany would be considered by adding the link to the Wikimedia chapter.
Why is not linked to site
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Now/hsb
as in the last years?
But Ifind this site good. It presents donors a good survey about the Wikimedia fundraiser.
Regards,
Michael
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