[Translators-l] Translators-l Digest, Vol 69, Issue 2

Fri Apr 15 06:54:44 UTC 2011

I've a doubt in editor's survey translation.

If I complete it, how long will it be shown in my language Wiki projects?

Tamil Wikipedian.

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2011/4/9 <translators-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org>

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> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:06:00 -0700
> From: Mani Pande <mpande at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Translators-l] test the editor survey
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> Hello everyone,
>
> As most of you are aware we are in the process of launching the editor
> survey shortly. We are very excited as the survey has been programmed,
> and is currently available in 22 languages. Thanks for making this
> possible. We would not have had the survey in 22 languages without the
> help of all the editors who volunteered their time to translate the survey.
>
> The survey is available in the following languages: English, Chinese
> (traditional, Hong Kong), Chinese (simplified), Serbian, Russian,
> Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Macedonian, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian,
> Hebrew, French, Finnish, Spanish, German, Danish, Welsh, Catalan,
> Bulgarian and Arabic.
>
> Before we launch the survey, we would like to test the non-English
> surveys. I am hoping that some of you would be willing to test the
> survey in your native language. I want to test the survey for  language
> and timing. It will be akin to taking the survey like a respondent, but
> responses from the test will not be saved. We are only looking for your
> feedback to make the survey better. You can click on the following link
> to test the survey:
>
> http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=52769&lang=en
>
> I am hoping to test the survey on two important criteria:
> 1. Timing: Please take the survey without any interruptions, and give us
> an estimate of how long it took to complete the survey. In English, it
> takes about 20 minutes to complete the survey.
> 2. Language: Are the questions easy to understand? I would like to make
> sure that the questions are valid in the local cultural context. Is the
> translation (survey and interface) broken in any way?
>
> We will close the test on April 13, Wednesday at 12.00 PM (PST). Please
> send your feedback to me at mpande at wikimedia.org till Wednesday.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mani
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> From: Linar Khalitov <rubin.happy at gmail.com>
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> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: [Translators-l] test the editor survey
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> There's a huge problem with it: right-to-left directionality is
> applied to every paragraph and not to the whole page. This completely
> ruins the presentation for Arabic and Hebrew. Just look how the radio
> buttons are aligned to understand how bad it is.
>
> There are several smaller problems, but this problem absolutely must
> be fixed. In HTML it's very easy to do and i hope that LimeSurvey
> doesn't make it a lot harder.
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni ? ?????? ????????? ??????????
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> "We're living in pieces,
> ?I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
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>
>
> 2011/4/9 Mani Pande <mpande at wikimedia.org>:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > As most of you are aware we are in the process of launching the editor
> > survey shortly. We are very excited as the survey has been programmed,
> and
> > is currently available in 22 languages. Thanks for making this possible.
> We
> > would not have had the survey in 22 languages without the help of all the
> > editors who volunteered their time to translate the survey.
> >
> > The survey is available in the following languages: English, Chinese
> > (traditional, Hong Kong), Chinese (simplified), Serbian, Russian,
> > Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Macedonian, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian,
> Hebrew,
> > French, Finnish, Spanish, German, Danish, Welsh, Catalan, Bulgarian and
> > Arabic.
> >
> > Before we launch the survey, we would like to test the non-English
> surveys.
> > I am hoping that some of you would be willing to test the survey in your
> > native language. I want to test the survey for? language and timing. It
> will
> > be akin to taking the survey like a respondent, but responses from the
> test
> > will not be saved. We are only looking for your feedback to make the
> survey
> > better. You can click on the following link to test the survey:
> >
> > http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=52769&lang=en
> >
> > I am hoping to test the survey on two important criteria:
> > 1. Timing: Please take the survey without any interruptions, and give us
> an
> > estimate of how long it took to complete the survey. In English, it takes
> > about 20 minutes to complete the survey.
> > 2. Language: Are the questions easy to understand? I would like to make
> sure
> > that the questions are valid in the local cultural context. Is the
> > translation (survey and interface) broken in any way?
> >
> > We will close the test on April 13, Wednesday at 12.00 PM (PST). Please
> send
> > your feedback to me at mpande at wikimedia.org till Wednesday.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Mani
> >
> >
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