Thanks for bringing up translation. I intended to bring this up in a separate note. We decided to take on translated 'summaries' this year fairly late into the production process. It seemed like we could handle this as a parallel process without slowing down the main production. That turned out to be more or less true as the small translation group we worked with (based in southern California) was able to tackle translation and layout design (not creating the design, but basically filling in the blanks). For this first effort with our annual report we wanted to outsource the translation. The most significant reason for this was the financials section. We wanted to have a company that had specialist experience in translating US financial terminology and data. We have to do this with great caution due to tax and financial regulations in the US. A miscommunication of our finance data could cause real problems, and we didn't want to put a volunteer in the position of making those tough calls. The languages chosen were a balance between our geographic priorities (Brazil, Middle East, India) and our widest base of donors and contributors from other countries. It's imperfect, as always - we want to do more in the future, but we needed to get started. These choices are by no means part of a permanent pattern for WMF in terms of translation. Now that we have a better understanding of the process we're hoping to expand it for next year - but more importantly finding ways to get volunteers involved. And yes, I think a community proof-read is another next step for next year. We were trying to strike a balance between speed and quality/detail. But we'll try more next year (and we're collecting notes and practices for the production team right now - so this is all timely and relevant!). jay On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: Just a quick note that the final proof has not been sent to the printer yet; last-minute corrections to the printed version are still possible today. I had set up an Etherpad to collect these at http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ar201011fixes - at the moment, it only contains the "Janvier" typo and one concerning the Arabic name for Wikimedia Israel. Were you aware of other examples? Corrections to the wiki versions will continue to be most welcome - it's part of their raison d'être. -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB