[Translators-l] FDC Elections Banner Translations

Minata Hatsune minatahatsune at gmail.com
Sat May 2 14:20:31 UTC 2015


I am a translator working on Vietnamese language. I was surprised to see
the translation in the two links above is done correctly (although I've
edited a bit for more understandable). It's not like someone has used
Google Translate or other machine translation tools.

The translator is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varnent. I am
curious whether he also understands this language? Despite his personal
page did not show it. I also have the same questions with the Vietnamese
translation of Call for candidates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_for_candidates/vi>.
It was done by a staff of WMF (Azariv), and I don't think he could
understand a strange language such as Vietnamese. I am active in many
Wikimedia projects in Vietnamese, but had never seen him before.

2015-05-02 20:05 GMT+07:00 James Alexander <jalexander tại wikimedia.org>:

> Hey all,
>
> If you have time I'd really appreciate some quick translations on the
> banners that will run for the FDC Election tomorrow (2, the committee is
> testing different language to see which works better). You can find them at
> the 2 links below. Unfortunately the translation system is a little buggy
> at the moment and the normal way to publish the translations (using the
> state dropdown) doesn't work. I spent a good portion of the night trying to
> find an alternative and for now I have one and will be keeping an eye on
> the languages coming in and publishing them through the API. I'm going to
> try and roll it out a bit slowly (starting at 00:00 UTC when the election
> starts) but eventually we'll need to turn it on for everyone given the
> short election (1 week) and so the more we can get in advance the better.
>
> Banner translation links:
>
>    -
>    https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Election2015_FDC_voting_startsB&filter=
>       - The Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee advises on
>       how millions of WMF funds are spent.
>       - Click here to participate in the election of its members.
>       -
>    https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Election2015_FDC_voting_starts&filter=
>    - Votes are now being accepted for the Wikimedia Foundation Funds
>       Dissemination Committee election.
>       - Click here to read about the candidates and vote.
>
>
> James Alexander
> Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation
> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>
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