2008/10/22 Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com:
- The slogan "Wikipedia is a non-profit" sounds weird to me.
Technically, Wikipedia is not "'a" non-profit (which in my English as a second language view of the world, means organisations) . However, Wikipedia is non-profi, ie. the project is not meant for profit.
I think the texts all would benefit from some polish. The core goal here is to communicate very simply that it's a project run by non-profit organization as opposed to a Facebook or Google. The opposite impression is very common when we talk to potential donors. We call this an "educational appeal" where we hope to establish a basis of understanding of our endeavor as a charitable one.
"Wikipedia is a non-profit project" is a bit long, but perhaps preferable. Any other suggestions?
We might want to "localize" the slogans rather than just "translate them".
I'm all in favor of translators applying some level of judgment here as long as the underlying intention is communicated clearly.
- While I understand the necessity and the advantages of pushing
Wikipedia over the other projects in terms of "return on investment", I really think it would make sense to find a slightly different wording/message for the notices on other projects.
We've had some internal conversations about this. Presumably, if you are on Wikibooks or Wikimedia Commons, you know that you are on a different project. So we're looking into a {{sitename}} type variable to have more project-specific messaging at least in the sitenotice. I can't promise that we will have this immediately at launch time.
- Has it been at all thought about to "translate" the currency in the
progress bar? I am thinking that "dollars" sounds a bit too American maybe and that in these times of financial crisis, it might make sense for some countries/languages to have a local currency progress bar.
Unfortunately that's not entirely trivial to do as it means rendering the thermometer in many different variants. Definitely worth doing but we can probably not make it a priority.
Otherwise, I find the mock-ups clear, slick and to the point.
Thanks :-)