No, on a wikis ... because wikimania is about all wikimedia projects :-) At least that is my idea ... and since wikimania is about community: aren't all projects a huge wikimedia family? So why should anybody have problems in helping their family to go ahead well? Ciao, Sabine effe iets anders schrieb:

On 3/5/07, Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote: Setting a note in the sitenotice it is not an easy thing. Actually I do not know if there is a sitenotice that can be set globally on all project. Sitenotice change should be asked to the community of each project and requires an administrator to do the change (I think that a steward can also do that, but this can rise nasty objection - do you remember the discussion for the sitenotice during the fundraising?) For the moment what I suggest is to announce on the translation list, on pgae about translation on meta and on as much as possible Village pump pages (or how they are called on the various project), In my opinion it could be request to add a note on the sitenotice to ask people to read the Request_For_Partecipation or to register to Wikimania, but not to put a not to ask to translate a page. And if any request is made, it is important that this is approved in every required place and agreement for that reached. (this to avoid the very common discussion) AnyFIle

On 3/5/07, Any File <anysomefile(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well, I think, technically it is feasible, at least I think the last fundraising sitenotice was set globally by Brion (and then subject to [overriding] translation by individual projects). Whether it is appropriate is another question. Michael

Hello, thank you for your all feedbacks. On 3/6/07, christophe.henner(a)wikimedia.fr <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> wrote: ... and also for your posting to the local community. Personally I think CfP is better to be translated, if the program committee is going to accept the speakers who have difficulties to write up their submission in English, but it seems not the trend. Considering your inputs, we are better to concentrate other translations and post a brief note to the local pages and lists? For tracking purpose, Wikimania website has a "distribution" subpage for each important document. For CfP, the page is [[Call for participation/distrubution]]. If you helped to disseminate the news already, please consider to list your distributions on that page! http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/distribution The boilerplate in English would be helpful (from the page above). ==Wikimania 2007== Hi! I'm sorry I don't know your language but [[Wikimania]] team would like you to present your local Wikipedia projects at the international Wikimania conference in Taipei! Have a look at the [[wm2007:Call for Participation]]! And it would be much nicer in your own language :) Cheers, -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *