Hoi,
In advance to a more general announcement, I am going to announce a new
project aimed to improve the localisation of MediaWiki. The details of this
project are published at
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Language_project . We are happy
that Hivos allowed us to make this project a reality..
There is a limited amount of money available, and the money available is
biased towards making MediaWiki as usable as possible in languages where it
is not really usable at the moment. We have up to 200 EURO available
(including our payment costs) for the localisation of one language. We will
offer you the choice to pay the money directly to you or when you work as a
group (for instance the Wikimedia Chapter India) you can ask us to pay it in
one go to your organisation. As a last option we have a program whereby you
can donate your money to our program "Donations, putting your money where
your mouth is". This program will pay for things like localisations in other
languages, paying for programmers to finish code that is not production
ready yet, adding features to Open Source programs like OmegaT or OmegaWiki.
If you have other suggestions for this scheme you can ask us to consider
this
In a thread on the Wikimedia India list, there was talk about the need of
Java programs to be used in MediaWiki. Finding money for a developer to
assess if these programs are safe to run in MediaWiki is something that I
would consider for a project in the "Donations, ... " project.
NB the money is to make MediaWiki useful. MediaWiki is however continuously
developed and localisation for your language is constantly needed. The best
we can achieve with money is to get localisation done for now. As MediaWiki
is what makes your Wikipedia or other project possible we urge you to help
us maintain MediaWiki as the best Wiki engine available.
Thanks,
GerardM
Stichting Open Progress
http://betawiki.org
http://www.hivos.nl/english
http://openprogress.org
http://openprogress.org/Donations%2C_putting_your_money_where_your_mouth_is