[Commons-l] Commons Picture of the Year 2007 - please help translate!

[Brianna Laugher]

Hello,

The 2007 Commons POTY (Picture of the Year) competition will be held
in from 10 January to 24th. This is a call to translators to help
support this event.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Translations

This year we are using custom software created by user:Bryan on the
toolserver, because last year it was a small nightmare counting and
verifying votes via editing a wiki page. There are three main sets of
translation that we need:

* the software messages (about 30 sentences)
* informational pages on Commons about how the competition runs,
voting requirements and who to contact if there is a problem (minimum
3 pages, all pretty short)
* announcements that are sent to various mailing lists and village
pumps. (4 messages, quite short)

We especially need these languages:
Dutch
Polish
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Chinese
Swedish
Portuguese
Norwegian
Finnish

(French and Spanish are complete; German only needs the announcements
translated; Dutch, Russian and Swedish are partially complete.)

These are the languages of the top 15 Wikipedias - projects that have
over 100,000 articles.

We also need volunteers for *all* these languages who are interested
in being on the organising committee as "language contacts". See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Committee
for more info. It is a really simple commitment: you agree to help
anyone who speaks that language with any problems they have, in the
voting process. You also post the announcements to the various Village
Pumps and so on. You will still get to vote in the competition and you
DON'T have to actually translate anything (or vice versa), although
obviously it would be nice.

Even if you just translate one thing, it is a big help. The wiki way
is step by step :)

All you need to know is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Translations

thankyou! please forward to other people you know who might be able to help.

cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise


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