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

[Damian Finol]

Aphaia wrote:
> Just fact-checking.
> After I read this inquiry, I moved the latest version on meta to the
> foundation website. Of course, I am not sure if it is the best
> version, as non-Spanish speaker, however, it seemed more Asturian ...
> 
> And anyway, translation isn't going on the foundation website, but on
> meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMFnews
> For fundraising pages,
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Fundraising_pages
> 
> As Titoxd supposed, the first two versions of "Asturian"-oriented are
> indeed Spanish. A native Spanish edited those versions, supposedly
> from the reason of closer familiarity between Spanish and Asturian.
> Later a ast-3/es-n editor made correction, and that version was what I
> moved to, and what you see on the website.
> 
> Has any editor recommendation for fixing that? He or she can start his
> work immediately at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Fundraising_pages/Donativos
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On 9/27/06, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at gmail.com> 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-----
>> From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Damian Finol
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:44 PM
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Asturian page for Donations is in Spanish
>>
>> 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,
Our suspiscions where indeed correct ;),

Thank you for everything Aphaia, keep up the good work! :D.

Damian