Hi all, as you know, we'll be using the CentralNotice system again this year to call people to participate in the competition.
[For those of you that don't know the technical details of CentralNotice: we'll be geolocating our banners to visitors and users only from the participating countries (35/36 at the moment). The banners will be displayed on all Wikimedia projects in the language of the user (or rather his/her browser), and will direct them to an external Wiki Loves Monuments website for their country (hence the geolocation) -- for example, users from Argentina will receive a banner in Spanish (mostly), linking to the Argentinian website: http://wikilovesmonuments.com.ar/.]
Just like last year, we need a catchy phrase to interest people in the contest. Due to a lack of better ideas ;-) the current slogan is the last year's: "Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!". This slogan is translated into 17 of the 33 languages used in the participating countries; we still miss the following ones:
* Afrikaans; * American English -- not sure if the US guys are going to keep the phrase "monument"? :-) * Belarusian (both in the normative ortography and the Taraškievica); * Czech; * Hebrew; * Hindi (not sure if it's going to be used in India?); * Interlingua; * Luxembourgish; * Malayalam; * Russian; * Serbian; * Swahili; * Tagalog; * Tamil; * Ukrainian.
There are also several other languages or dialect/variants I might have missed (Romantsh, Canadian English, Austrian German, Swiss High German, German-formal address, and several languages used in South Africa and India come to my mind first), so if you find one and can translate into it, please do so!
The slogans can be find at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/CentralNotice#Main_banner, and that's where the translation should appear also. And let's set 23:59:59 (UTC) as the deadline, because we need to move the translations onto Meta in time :-))
Thanks,
Added (I used rather polish interpretation then english). Also please copy MediaWiki talk:Centralnotice-wlm 2012-text/ukhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Centralnotice-wlm_2012-text/ukto MediaWiki:Centralnotice-wlm 2012-text/ukhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-wlm_2012-text/uk
2012/8/22 Tomasz W. Kozłowski odder.wiki@gmail.com
Hi all, as you know, we'll be using the CentralNotice system again this year to call people to participate in the competition.
[For those of you that don't know the technical details of CentralNotice: we'll be geolocating our banners to visitors and users only from the participating countries (35/36 at the moment). The banners will be displayed on all Wikimedia projects in the language of the user (or rather his/her browser), and will direct them to an external Wiki Loves Monuments website for their country (hence the geolocation) -- for example, users from Argentina will receive a banner in Spanish (mostly), linking to the Argentinian website: http://wikilovesmonuments.com.ar/.]
Just like last year, we need a catchy phrase to interest people in the contest. Due to a lack of better ideas ;-) the current slogan is the last year's: "Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!". This slogan is translated into 17 of the 33 languages used in the participating countries; we still miss the following ones:
- Afrikaans;
- American English -- not sure if the US guys are going to keep the
phrase "monument"? :-)
- Belarusian (both in the normative ortography and the Taraškievica);
- Czech;
- Hebrew;
- Hindi (not sure if it's going to be used in India?);
- Interlingua;
- Luxembourgish;
- Malayalam;
- Russian;
- Serbian;
- Swahili;
- Tagalog;
- Tamil;
- Ukrainian.
There are also several other languages or dialect/variants I might have missed (Romantsh, Canadian English, Austrian German, Swiss High German, German-formal address, and several languages used in South Africa and India come to my mind first), so if you find one and can translate into it, please do so!
The slogans can be find at < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/CentralN...
,
and that's where the translation should appear also. And let's set 23:59:59 (UTC) as the deadline, because we need to move the translations onto Meta in time :-))
Thanks,
Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Thank Andrij ;-)
I'll make a Meta admin move the translation into the MediaWiki: namespace.
Hi there, it's been over a week already since my original request, and you did absolutely amazing with providing translations of the slogan into the missing language--thank you, I appreciate your help!
There are only five languages left that are missing translations: # Hindi; # Interlingua; # Malayalam; # Tagalog; # Tamil.
If there are people from India reading this mail, and also speakers of Tagalog, please take a minute to translate this short sentence into your language--and I will take care of moving the translation to Meta.
You can post the translation at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/CentralNotice#Main_banner.
Thanks, Tomasz
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