Thanks for the reminder. I would say, after looking at it (and doing a some proofreading), that Swedish is ready to publish. All messages has been proofread by at least two persons, some messages up to four.

*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*

Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48

2013/11/20 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org

Hi all,

please help with these translations! Quite a few languages are still missing. See below for status and instructions. If no translations are available at the start, we may have to run the survey without that language.

Best, Lodewijk

For the following languages no translation has been made at all: (tier 1) Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Chinese (zh), Estonian, Hindi, Nepali, Norwegian (no), Penguinian, Serbian (Latin script, sr-el), Slovak, (tier 2) Chinese (zh-cn), Chinese (zh-hk), Chinese (zh-tw), Chinese (yue), American English (en-us), Galician, Kannada, Lower Sorbian, Malayalam, Northern Sotho, Norwegian (nn), Occitan, Scottish Gaelic, Silesian, Tamil, Telugu, Tswana, Upper Sorbian

For the following languages, some translations have been made - but more is needed: (tier 1) Chinese (zh-hans), Serbian (Cyrillic script, sr-ec), Luxembourgish, Polish, Tagalog, (tier 2) Asturian, Bengali, Breton, Marathi (other, no priority) Interlingua, Japanese, Persian, Zazaki

For the following languages are fully translated or only proofreading is necessary: (tier 1) Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian (tier 2) Esperanto, Welsh (other) Macedonian

2013/11/11 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org

...

Dear all,

please help translate the participant survey on https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate/tsint-wlmsurvey&am... . Translating should be quite easy, I'm doing it right now for Dutch. We are using the same software that is used for translating system messages for MediaWiki.

Could you all please make sure that every language gets translated? Please note that you need at least two people to translate: one to make the initial translation, and one to 'check' the translations. Please log in before translating.

We would like to aim for 7-10 days to get everything translated. After that, we want the participant survey to be sent out as soon as possible.

Feel free to spread the message around and ask any questions you have.

At this point, all languages can use help translating or proofreading translations.

Best, Lodewijk

---

Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

Dear all,

I was participating in WLM for the third time now, both as an uploader (for multiple countries) and as someone helping with the uploaded files, categorizing them on Commons, placing them into lists, and on one occasion helping the jury with the preselection of photos. I was never involved with any organizational team.

I still remember that in 2011 pretty soon after I started uploading photos, I got a barnstar from Lodewijk for 50 (or was it 100?) uploaded photos. I got also appreciacion messages from the organizing teams of two countries I uploaded photos for, and, if I remember correcly, a general appreciacion WLM message.

In 2012, I got an appreciacion message from one country. I am not sure about the general WLM message, I believe I did not get it.

I am sure in 2013 I got nothing, even though we are in the middle of November. Not that I personally need appreciacion messages (I try to maintain barnstar-free spaces in all projects I am an administrator, including Commons), but I guess if I uploaded 100+ or 200+ photos and did not get anything, then almost nobody got anything.

Since one of the WLM goals was to attract new users, giving appreciacion messages out is particularly important, especially for them.

I would then ask the organization committees, international as well as the national ones, somehow coordinate and do the following:

1) At least leave a nice bot message at the talk page of everybody who uploaded anything for WLM-2013; 2) Ideally, also bot-messages for specific countries (if every country does it we do not need the central one); 3) (This is much more difficult, but would be much more appreciated). Check who categorized images and did the routine maintenance on Commons, who placed the images into the lists and did other maintenance on the projects, and add to their talk pages non-templated messages on how the organizers appreciate their work.

If this is done, I would personally go to the Commons pages of the organizers and thank them there for their work. (I would also appreciate then having the lists because at this point I have no idea who the organizers are).

Though this does not belong to this topic, I would like to take the opportunity and thank all the organizers, national and international - they are still finalizing the results, but I think we already can conclude that they spent considerable time to make the contest happen. Thank you for your time and efforts, they are really appreciated by the wide Wikimedia community.

Cheers Yaroslav

Dear all,

thanks a lot again for all your help. We intend to accept translations until 1800 UTC, this Saturday (please don't go close to the deadline, we might be one hour early or later :) ). I understood from Platonides that he has to export the translations, so after it goes live, adding new translations is harder.

Please make sure everything is translated before Saturday! We hope to let the survey go live Saturday evening.

Something I forgot to ask: we also put together an invitation message to be posted on the talkpages of all participants. You can find it here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM_2013_thank_you/en and a reminder here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM_2013_survey_thank_you

This is only one short message, and it would also have to be translated :) Your help here would be greatly appreciated too!

Thanks for all the help! Under here the overview of translation status of the survey itself.

If you know people who like to translate in one of the missing languages, please forward!

Best, Lodewijk

For the following languages no translation has been made at all: (tier 1) Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Chinese (zh), Hindi, Nepali, Norwegian (no), Penguinian, Serbian (Latin script, sr-el), Slovak, (tier 2) Chinese (zh-cn), Chinese (zh-hk), Chinese (zh-tw), Chinese (yue), American English (en-us), Galician, Kannada, Lower Sorbian, Malayalam, Northern Sotho, Norwegian (nn), Occitan, Scottish Gaelic, Silesian, Tamil, Telugu, Tswana, Upper Sorbian

For the following languages, some translations have been made - but more is needed: (tier 1) Chinese (zh-hans), Estonian, Serbian (Cyrillic script, sr-ec), Luxembourgish, Polish, Tagalog, (tier 2) Asturian, Bengali, Breton, Marathi (other, no priority) Interlingua, Japanese, Persian, Yiddish, Zazaki

For the following languages are fully translated or only proofreading is necessary: (tier 1) Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian (tier 2) Esperanto, Welsh (other) Macedonian

2013/11/11 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org

...

Dear all,

please help translate the participant survey on https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate/tsint-wlmsurvey&am... . Translating should be quite easy, I'm doing it right now for Dutch. We are using the same software that is used for translating system messages for MediaWiki.

Could you all please make sure that every language gets translated? Please note that you need at least two people to translate: one to make the initial translation, and one to 'check' the translations. Please log in before translating.

We would like to aim for 7-10 days to get everything translated. After that, we want the participant survey to be sent out as soon as possible.

Feel free to spread the message around and ask any questions you have.

At this point, all languages can use help translating or proofreading translations.

Best, Lodewijk