[Wikimedia-l] Translations of WMF documents [was: Re: Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2012 [was: Re: Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 43]]

[Martijn Hoekstra]

As a matter of principle, I wholeheartedly agree. But principles only
take you so far, and cost a great deal. I don't see much wrong with
the communities translating reports, rather than have the WMF spend my
donated money on translators.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Виктория <mstislavl1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I second this on behalf of Russian-speaking users.
>
> Victoria
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hallo Tilman,
>>
>> Am 13.04.2012 um 13:01 schrieb wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org:
>> >
>> > please find below the WMF report for March 2012, in plain text.
>>
>> Thanks for publishing the new report.
>>
>> > Since a few months, we have been publishing a separate "Highlights"
>> > summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to
>> > stay updated, by providing a translation:
>> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2012
>> > Many thanks to those who translated last month's "Highlights" into
>> > Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch and
>> > (partially) Arabic.
>>
>> We have discussed this on the German Chapter's list recently. Most of
>> those taking part in the discussion opined the Wikimedia Foundation provide
>> translations of its documents into the most important languages. We touched
>> upon the subject as WCA announced it will publish its reports in several
>> languages. Translations should not be left to the community. It is not up
>> to the community to get news from the Foundation, but it is rather up to
>> the Foundation to get its message across to the community. Please note that
>> only a minority of Wikipedians are able to understand your documents
>> published in English. I would be quite grateful if we please could change
>> this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jürgen.
>>
>>
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