Hey all,
The fundraising notice, after some tweaks and fixes, is now enabled on Meta, Commons, and all English-language projects. We're gearing up to enable it on other languages, but don't want to be throwing too much English text at people.
Translations for the notice are more centralized this year for a couple reasons:
* All projects will get the localized texts (including multilingual projects like Commons)
* Changes will update more quickly -- we had caching problems before where some people saw old text or no text days after it was changed. The new system updates within a few minutes.
Currently a meta admin is required to take the updates live, and a developer has to enable the notice for a particular site or language. I'm hoping to clean up that process over the coming days, though.
The headline text on the site notice is available for translation at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice
There are a lot of translations for the text that we'll switch in _later_ to go with the landing page under development:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Landing_page/Translations
but we need updates for the *current* text in a lot of languages.
Please test out the site notice as it appears on your wikis like this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/?sitenotice=yes http://zh.wikibooks.org/wiki/?sitenotice=yes etc
Let me know if your community's ready to turn it on as is.
We're also going to want to see updates for the donation forms. The old ones on http://wikimediafoundation.org still work, though we're trying to transition to new ones on http://donate.wikimedia.org/
There's a translation system for that new site which we can set up accounts for, but I'm not 100% sure how to go about all that yet. :) It's a learning experience.
We're also trying to get subtitled versions of the video with Jimmy up within the next few days. Subtitle files in .srt format are preferred; I can recode the videos from them and upload the new versions as they become available.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
On 24/10/2007, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
- All projects will get the localized texts (including multilingual
projects like Commons)
- Changes will update more quickly -- we had caching problems before
where some people saw old text or no text days after it was changed. The new system updates within a few minutes.
On Commons the English says 'Donate to Wikipedia!' although http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice indicates 'Wikimedia'. Since the Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-headlines says 'Wikimedia' I don't know where it gets Wikipedia from...???
cheers Brianna
Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 24/10/2007, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
- All projects will get the localized texts (including multilingual
projects like Commons)
- Changes will update more quickly -- we had caching problems before
where some people saw old text or no text days after it was changed. The new system updates within a few minutes.
On Commons the English says 'Donate to Wikipedia!' although http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice indicates 'Wikimedia'. Since the Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-headlines says 'Wikimedia' I don't know where it gets Wikipedia from...???
Bluh, I'll have to fiddle with it.
Maybe I'll just make it say Wikimedia everywhere. :)
-- brion
On 10/24/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 24/10/2007, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
- All projects will get the localized texts (including multilingual
projects like Commons)
- Changes will update more quickly -- we had caching problems before
where some people saw old text or no text days after it was changed. The new system updates within a few minutes.
On Commons the English says 'Donate to Wikipedia!' although http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice indicates 'Wikimedia'. Since the Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-headlines says 'Wikimedia' I don't know where it gets Wikipedia from...???
Bluh, I'll have to fiddle with it.
If you could fix it, I, as Wikiquoter and parttime Wikinewsie, will very appreciate you :)
Maybe I'll just make it say Wikimedia everywhere. :)
Sounds nice. or {{PROJECT}} or alike? /me however confesses she also sometimes confuses Wikimedia with Wikipedia ...
-- brion
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It is already Wikimedia :) Thanks, Brion!
On 10/25/07, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/24/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 24/10/2007, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
- All projects will get the localized texts (including multilingual
projects like Commons)
- Changes will update more quickly -- we had caching problems before
where some people saw old text or no text days after it was changed. The new system updates within a few minutes.
On Commons the English says 'Donate to Wikipedia!' although http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice indicates 'Wikimedia'. Since the Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-headlines says 'Wikimedia' I don't know where it gets Wikipedia from...???
Bluh, I'll have to fiddle with it.
If you could fix it, I, as Wikiquoter and parttime Wikinewsie, will very appreciate you :)
Maybe I'll just make it say Wikimedia everywhere. :)
Sounds nice. or {{PROJECT}} or alike? /me however confesses she also sometimes confuses Wikimedia with Wikipedia ...
-- brion
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Brion Vibber wrote:
We're also trying to get subtitled versions of the video with Jimmy up within the next few days. Subtitle files in .srt format are preferred; I can recode the videos from them and upload the new versions as they become available.
English, French, Italian, and Dutch subtitled versions are now online (for inline viewing). Thanks to all the translators!
I've run into some technical snags for the Arabic translation, which is also complete, but will hopefully get that resolved soonish.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Video_with_Jimmy_subtitles/T...
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
Looks great!
A little offtopic: Can we expect the Flash video player also on Commons?
Bryan
On 10/24/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Brion Vibber wrote:
We're also trying to get subtitled versions of the video with Jimmy up within the next few days. Subtitle files in .srt format are preferred; I can recode the videos from them and upload the new versions as they become available.
English, French, Italian, and Dutch subtitled versions are now online (for inline viewing). Thanks to all the translators!
I've run into some technical snags for the Arabic translation, which is also complete, but will hopefully get that resolved soonish.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Video_with_Jimmy_subtitles/T...
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
Looks great!
A little offtopic: Can we expect the Flash video player also on Commons?
Possibly some day, but there's no rush. Lots of kinks to work out and we'd need an infrastructure for automatic transcoding -- not to mention a firm decision about the ideological and legal implications of such. :)
- -- brion
Saluton
How can we get more localized images for progress bar ("people have donated")
like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-de.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-pt.png
There are also translations for af, bpy, bn, cs, gl, ja, la, nn, no, pms, pl, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, te, th, tl, tr, uk, vec, vi, vo, zh-yue, zh-hant, zh-classical on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice
2007/10/25, Александр Сигачёв alexander.sigachov@gmail.com:
Saluton
How can we get more localized images for progress bar ("people have donated")
like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-de.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-pt.png
There are also translations for af, bpy, bn, cs, gl, ja, la, nn, no, pms, pl, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, te, th, tl, tr, uk, vec, vi, vo, zh-yue, zh-hant, zh-classical on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice
and zh :)
-- Amike kaj kunlabore, Aleksander
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Александр Сигачёв wrote:
Saluton
How can we get more localized images for progress bar ("people have donated")
like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-de.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-pt.png
There are also translations for af, bpy, bn, cs, gl, ja, la, nn, no, pms, pl, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, te, th, tl, tr, uk, vec, vi, vo, zh-yue, zh-hant, zh-classical on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice
Once we fix the problem where it only works for Latin-1 text, we'll add the rest.
-- brion
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