[Foundation-l] Asturian page for Donations is in Spanish

Damian Finol damian at igluve.org
Tue Sep 26 23:04:03 UTC 2006


Titoxd at Wikimedia wrote:
> No, that could be Asturian (I don't know it, so I cannot confirm that)...
> albeit the rest of page is in perfect Spanish, which I do speak natively.
> Reading the page in more detail, only the tagline is translated, as well as
> a few other words, such as "ye" after "La Fundación Wikimedia", but entire
> sections of text are not. 
> 
> However, I do believe that the reason could be that the translators were
> translating the Spanish page to Asturian, as you suggested. This diff does
> suggest that:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donativos&diff=next&oldid=1
> 3719. Considering, though, that the translation edit was made only today, I
> guess that we can cut them some slack... ;) 
> 
> Titoxd.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Titoxd at Wikimedia wrote:
>> Yep, that's clearly Spanish. Unfortunately, I don't know Asturian to be
> able
>> to translate it appropriately...
>>
>> Titoxd.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Leonard
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:05 AM
>> To: foundation-l at wikimedia.org
>> Subject: [Foundation-l] Asturian page for Donations is in Spanish
>>
>> OTRS just got a notice about this - the Asturian page linked from the
>> Donations page (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donativos) has
>> identical text to the Spanish page
>> (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donaciones), and my untrained eye
>> says that the text is in Spanish.
>>
>> - Andrew
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> Hello,
> 
> Yes, it's in spanish, albeit a weird spanish 'Formes de donar' instead 
> of 'Formas de donar' and "Imaxina un mundu nel cual cada persona tien 
> accesu gratuitu a la suma de too'l conocimientu humanu. Eso ye lo que 
> tratamos de facer."
> 
> Maybe they are using the Spanish Donation page because it's easier to 
> translate from spanish to asturian.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ing. Damian Finol
> Maracaibo -Venezuela
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Greetings,

Yea that's what I meant when I said it was mostly spanish, aor weird 
looking spanish (which I assumed was asturian).
I also speak spanish natively.

Damian



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