Hoi, Siebrand send this e-mail to the contributors to translatewiki.net. As localisation is an integral part to our success, I forward this to you. Those who already contribute to our localisation I thank and those who are capable of supporting MediaWiki by helping in the localisation effort I urge to lend a hand.

In the end this is a rally intended to help us provide a better service to our readers and editors. Thanks, GerardM

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Translatewiki.net staff translatewiki@xs4all.nl Date: 2009/8/9 Subject: Translatewiki newsletter - A new translation rally has begun To: gerard.meijssen

Hello, dear translatewiki.net user.

This is our e-mail newsletter for August 2009. It intends to keep you updated on translatewiki.net's developments, and is also aimed at reminding you to visit http://translatewiki.net at least once every month to update the language(s) you have been contributing to in the past, so that the localisations will stay up to date. Because our shortage of staff time, it has been 6 months since we have sent out our last newsletter. We hope to make it worth your while :) Translation Rally: Contribute 500 MediaWiki translations and share in 1,000 Euro!

In the last week of 2008 we had our first translation rallyhttp://wiki/Translating:Language_project/500claim. All translators that would contribute more than 500 translations to MediaWiki would share the 1,000 Euro bounty. To our astonishment 35 users managed to reach this milestone.

Sponsored by Stichting Open Progress http://openprogress.org, with a grant from Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mainpage's "International Projects" fund, we are able to have another translation rallyhttp://wiki/Project:Rally-2009-08with about the same conditions. The Translation Rally has already started and will run until 18 August 2009 24:00 UTC. See the project page for details. Other News

Niklas Laxström http://wiki/User:Nike (aka Nikerabbit), founder of translatewiki.net, has entered into the Google Summer of Code 2009http://code.google.com/soc/program and has already been making many improvements http://wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2009/schedule to the MediaWiki Translate extension. We are very much looking forward to no longer having to open new tabs to edit messages, for example. Translatewiki.net staff remains being most committed to the site's translators.

We welcome feedback about this newsletter. Please let us know by sending a reply to this mail. We will try to accommodate your wishes.

Siebrand Mazeland Translatewiki.net staff ------------------------------

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