Subtitle of the message subject: HELP
We need help for translation of the major pages related to fundraising. You can help.
Here is the page where translation needed are listed
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007#Pages_to_be_translated
Please help translate the pages mentionned in bold. This is urgent.
Also, please distribute this message around in your projects, in the various languages, and on the pumps.
Thanks
Ant
On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Subtitle of the message subject: HELP
We need help for translation of the major pages related to fundraising. You can help.
Here is the page where translation needed are listed
Please help translate the pages mentionned in bold. This is urgent.
Also, please distribute this message around in your projects, in the various languages, and on the pumps.
There's a saying popular in many American offices: "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
In other words: there was plenty of time to prepare for this fundraiser, indeed there was a message two months ago about this upcoming event. It is utterly arrogant and disrespectful towards the volunteers to put up a fundraising notice from one day to the other and then afterwards beg for translators claiming urgency. I don't think anybody here has a problem lending a hand when things are tough and circumstances are outside of your control. But this isn't one of those cases. I expect that there will be some sort of apology for this mess once it's cleaned up.
And yes, of course, I am willing to help. Not because I like the methods used here but because there's a higher issue at hand: the foundation does need money.
Sebastian
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Subtitle of the message subject: HELP
We need help for translation of the major pages related to fundraising. You can help.
Here is the page where translation needed are listed
Please help translate the pages mentionned in bold. This is urgent.
Also, please distribute this message around in your projects, in the various languages, and on the pumps.
There's a saying popular in many American offices: "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
In other words: there was plenty of time to prepare for this fundraiser, indeed there was a message two months ago about this upcoming event. It is utterly arrogant and disrespectful towards the volunteers to put up a fundraising notice from one day to the other and then afterwards beg for translators claiming urgency. I don't think anybody here has a problem lending a hand when things are tough and circumstances are outside of your control. But this isn't one of those cases. I expect that there will be some sort of apology for this mess once it's cleaned up.
I agree that even though the request for translators is as old as the rest of the preparations for the fundraiser. It is unconscionable and disingenuous for those who have failed to step up to the plate for these two months to claim that they did not know that this translation needed to be done. An apology is really deserved to those volunteers who have worked on this for the last two months. Sabine has background as a translator, but she can't be expected to do them all.
Ec
On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Subtitle of the message subject: HELP
We need help for translation of the major pages related to fundraising. You can help.
Here is the page where translation needed are listed
Please help translate the pages mentionned in bold. This is urgent.
Also, please distribute this message around in your projects, in the various languages, and on the pumps.
Thanks
Ant
Regarding my last e-mail: I apologize for the tone, that wasn't quite right. It represented my state of mind at the moment I wrote that but didn't take into account (1) the nature of this list, (2) that Florence personally isn't really who's shouldering the blame here. When I wrote "you" or "your", this was meant as an impersonal "you" regarding the foundation, not Florence specifically. While I doubt that I'm the only one who's feeling that sort of frustration, it's not an excuse for my unwise choice of words.
Sebastian
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Subtitle of the message subject: HELP
We need help for translation of the major pages related to fundraising. You can help.
Here is the page where translation needed are listed
Please help translate the pages mentionned in bold. This is urgent.
Also, please distribute this message around in your projects, in the various languages, and on the pumps.
Thanks
Ant
Regarding my last e-mail: I apologize for the tone, that wasn't quite right. It represented my state of mind at the moment I wrote that but didn't take into account (1) the nature of this list, (2) that Florence personally isn't really who's shouldering the blame here. When I wrote "you" or "your", this was meant as an impersonal "you" regarding the foundation, not Florence specifically. While I doubt that I'm the only one who's feeling that sort of frustration, it's not an excuse for my unwise choice of words.
Sebastian
Thanks. Apology accepted.
ant
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