[Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: Two translation requests of special interest to chapters

[Casey Brown]

We could really use some help from the Brazilians with this! The deadlines
are quickly approaching and Potuguese is one of our priority languages that
needs a lot of help.

Casey

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Casey Brown
Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011
Subject: Two translation requests of special interest to chapters
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
<internal-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, chapters at wikimedia.ch
Cc: Mani Pande <mpande at wikimedia.org>, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaudette at wikimedia.org>


Hey chapters! :-)

There are two projects undergoing translation going on right now that
I think a lot of you would be really interested in: the personal image
hiding filter vote ("image filter referendum") and the mobile readers
survey.

------ Image filter referendum ------

As you hopefully all know already, the image filter referendum is a
global referendum of Wikimedians focused on the development and usage
of an opt-in personal image hiding feature. That basically means that
it's a way for people to hide what types of images they personally
don't want to see right away -- if an image fits into one of the
categories of images they don't want to see, it will be initially
hidden from view. If after reading the caption they decide they want
to see the image, they can easily do that. If they don't, then they're
happy that they didn't have a random penis show up in their face (or
something of that nature). This is something that a lot of outreach
and GLAM-focused people have been wanting for a while now, and I'm
pretty sure we've actually discussed these issues on the list.

The main introduction information/rules, the FAQ, and a number of
other pages were published the other day, so we could really use your
help in getting them translated. As this will be an important global
referendum, we need to make sure that everyone understands the
situation and what they're actually voting for.

Our main language priorities by number of visitors are en, ja, es, pt,
fr, ru, it, vi, ar, nl, zh, tr, fa, ko, th. So we could use help from
Wikimedia España/Argentina/Chile, Wikimedia Portugal, Wikimedia
France, Wikimedia RU, Wikimedia Italia, and Wikimedia Nederland.

The deadline is 8 August 2011 and the translation status table is
here: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFR/T>

------ Mobile Readers Survey 2011 ------

I'm sure you guys all remember the Editors Survey from a little while
ago. Well, the Global Development Department is running another
survey, this time focusing on mobile readers rather than editors. This
is another survey that will help us understand a lot more about the
people who use mobile services and how our mobile sites can be
improved.  Mobile web access continues to grow, and it's important
that we learn more about the mobile situation in different areas so we
can increase our reach and get a few steps closer to our mission.

This translation request is a little different from other requests in
that instead of accepting any language, we will only be able to
support a small number of languages. (These languages were chosen
based on existing mobile page views and strategic priorities.) The
languages this survey will be run in are en, ja, es, de, fr, ru, pt,
tr, ar, zh. So we could use some help from Wikimedia
Argentina/España/Chile, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia France,
Wikimedia RU, Wikimedia Portugal, and Wikimedia Taiwan/Hong
Kong/Macau.

The deadline for this request is 10 August 2011 and the workspace is
on Meta-Wiki: <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Mobile_Readers_Survey_2011/Translation
>

------ That's it ------

Well, that's the end of my spiel. :-) If you have any time, please
help with these translation requests. Feel free to poke me or the list
with any questions you might have.

Thanks in advance!
Casey

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Casey Brown
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