[Mediawiki-i18n] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Requesting mail man translation facility in translate wiki

[Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)]

Hi Jeremy and Mahitgar,

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy at tuxmachine.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 21:12, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
> mahitgar at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Sorry if I am putting my request at wrong place ,Please forward the same
> to
> > right people if you happen to know them on my behalf .I here with
> earnestly
> > request to make mailman wikimedia mailing list/mailman  localisation
> > translation facility avaialable at translatewiki.net
>
Although I would like this, too, it's not in my hands entirely. We need the
developer community of the products we support to stand behind this,
because we will demand that they will follow up on the translator
questions. Otherwise we would be just any localisation platform. We pride
ourselves to be the platform that cares about translators and real quality.
See https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:New_project for details. I
would suggest that you get in touch with the developers and or translators
and discuss how they like their current solutions, and if they're open to
changing those.

> > While currently location based one or two mailing lists are available but
> > most of Marathi language wikipedians prefer to receive mailing list
> messages
> > and mailing list moderation in Marathi language.So we will be start using
> > wikimedia mailing list only after localisation for marathi wikipedians.
> >
> > .Presently we are convincing diverting and training lot of wikipedians
> from
> > our wikipedia to work on translation of media wiki and mediawiki
> > translations.One is our available pool of editors is already small and
> many
> > people from translation background find it difficult to cope up with
> > different different environments.
>
See http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Internationalization (kinda recent)
> and http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Managing+Translations (ancient)
>
OTRS might be another Wikimedia tool that could benefit from localisation.
As said: we're not diving in supporting projects without backup from the
developer community of those projects.

Cheers!

-- 
Siebrand Mazeland
translatewiki.net staff

M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
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