Hi Aphaia san, sorry for the late reply.
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Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007
Hi Hsiang-Tai, thank you for your mail.
On 10/7/06, Hsiang-Tai Chien <htchien1225(a)yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
Hi Aphaia san,
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Hm, google doesn't prefer we communicating in our own
languages ;( # hence garbled parts removed
What I wrote in the previous mail is: "hajimemashite kandesu douzo
yoroshiku". :)
I have read
your posts in both Wikimedia-l and Wikimania-l and I'm
glad that you (and others in
Transcom) would like to help on translation issues. Yes I agree it
would be good if there is at least one person can coordinate on
translation and we do see the needs for this kind of person
because we
already have some queries from Italy to say they
also would
like to help on translation and interpreting between EN and IT.
Great!
We are better now to set up "translators & coordinators" page?
Yes, we can have that page on the WM07 website. WM07 website is not been
created and I believe the page for translators will be set up soon.
Now the
questions.
When I send the reply I thought the communication in the
organization
for Wikimania between the Foundation and us is
mainly in
English, but
I think now we should also consider other
languages as
well. For now I and ROC (meta:User:R.O.C, zh:wp:User:R.O.C)
will be charge in communications.
It means you two will care for translation in general as coordinators?
If someone would like to discuss about translation, he or she
is recommended to mail both of you? Communications are a bit
broader idea than mere press contact a/o translation coordination.
Yes, Thodoranian had appointed me to be the coordinators for translations
last week, so if anyone wish to discuss about translation, he/she can e-mail
to me directly.
Francis Huang, who is in the list I provided earlier, will be the local
press contact person. For international press contact, people can contact
the Taipei team through me. This is because not all members in the Taipei
team are familiar with foreign languages and I can help to translate the
messages to the members.
One relevant question; I am a bit curious why names of
people
who helped past Wikimanias' translation into Chinese didn't
appear on your list. Are there any inconvinience for their
involvement? (One possible answer I can guess is they are
now blocked from editing; one editor I recall is in the Mainland).
The blocking is one of the reasons. However, now the blocking is been lifted
so I guess some of them might be able to help. We will welcome anyone who
wish to help to join us.
Thanks again
for your help and, we still wish to know if
there's any
speaker from Japan you can suggest.
Ahem, I am afraid I misunderstood the request; I supposed you
or the programm team (I can be included though) first think
who Wikimania
2007 would like to have and then I assign the list we are
going to contact. Would you like me to suggest names?
Yes, the program should be discussed first, and we welcome you to join the
program team. I believe someone in the program team will contact you before
the meeting is going to be hold.
I think perhaps we will do better works if we are
working
collaborative. Would you like me to invite Japanese project
editors to submit their ideas? (Perhaps via wikija-l)
That would be great. I think you can provide your ideas once the related
WM07 pages are been set up.
Last question: the dates of the conference are fixed
already?
Hacking days conference for WM07 is been set from 8/1 to 8/2, and the WM07
conference is been set from 8/3 to 8/5.
Best regards,
H.T.
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