[Translators-l] Translation credit

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Several times during the fundraiser i updated the translations
manually with corrections made by other people and then i just
mentioned their usernames in the edit summary. This should be good
enough as far as credit goes.

For a fuller solution i propose moving all the translation efforts to
translatewiki.net , which offers convenient tools for automatic
translation updates, and to the best of my knowledge, they take care
of credit, too.

2011/1/20 KIZU Naoko <aphaia at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I guess we don't have a written form policy of credit or even common
> one. My recommendation for wmf editors who publish the translation
> from meta to wmf site
> is using [[meta:special:Import]] for moving the files to wmf site
> which enables us
> to preserve the original history, but sometimes it takes a time and I
> understand not always it hasn't be kept.
>
> Another solution, I believe once Wing suggested too, might be putting
> the translators' credit on the page in a much more visible way, not
> only relying history page alone, but it has not been taken into
> serious consideration to implement ... yet.
>
> What do you guys think the latter solution?
> Is anyone (preferably a MW developer) interested in?
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Benny <bknliem at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, forgive me for asking this, but what's the policy for crediting a translation? For example, the Indonesian landing page is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA026/id  With a little research we can find that the source is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:2010/JimmyLetterK/id, but when you look at it's history, there's no link to the actual translation page, i.e. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Jimmy_appeal_2/id, thus it seems that Klyman is the one who did the translation. I suppose he should've at least mention where the translation was taken from. Or is there another rationalization?
>>
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>> Regards,
>> benny
>>
>> --- On Thu, 12/16/10, Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [Translators-l] Reminder on the urgent Jimmy
>> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 9:33 PM
>>
>> Just a gentle reminder:  we have an appeal from Jimmy up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Translation .  This one will be pushed out to all wikis, so we really need it localized as much as possible, please... any help you can give is gratefully appreciated.
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