[Translators-l] Translators-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 8

Sat May 31 18:15:15 UTC 2008

I will post the announcement on Persian Wikipedia.

Hojjat (aka Huji)

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>   1. FlaggedRevs availability announcement (Erik Moeller)
>   2. Re: FlaggedRevs availability announcement (Pedro Sanchez)
>   3. Re: FlaggedRevs availability announcement (Luiz Augusto)
>   4. Re: FlaggedRevs availability announcement (Luiz Augusto)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:14:50 -0700
> From: "Erik Moeller" <erik at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> All -
>
> I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> places.
>
> Announcement follows.
>
> Thanks for any & all help,
> Erik
>
>
> Subject: Important: New edit patrolling features available
>
> As of today, the "FlaggedRevs" extension is available to any wiki
> community that wishes to use it. FlaggedRevs is a tool for patrolling
> changes, identifying high quality article versions, and changing the
> default version shown to unregistered users. It's highly configurable.
> As such, we're making it available in two configurations:
>
> 1) A minimally intrusive "patrolling" configuration;
> 2) Custom configurations per your request.
>
> == Who needs this feature and where can I see it? ==
>
> Larger wiki communities will probably benefit more from the use of
> this feature than smaller ones. If you have problems keeping vandalism
> in check, and/or want to experiment with new ways to identify high
> quality content, you should look into this functionality.
>
> You can see an English language demo installation of the feature at:
> http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
>
> The feature is in production use on the German Wikipedia:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/
>
> The German Wikipedia uses a custom configuration where the most recent
> vandalism-patrolled version, if any, is shown to unregistered users.
> You can track the progress of their use of the patrolling feature
> here:
>
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english<http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Eaka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english>
>
> == Patrolling Configuration ==
>
> In the Patrolling Configuration, any user who has been registered for
> more than 21 days and has made at least 150 edits will be
> automatically given the permission to patrol changes for vandalism.
> Only changes made by users who are not permitted to patrol changes
> need to be patrolled.
>
> In addition, sysops will be given the permission to flag versions of
> "featured articles" in accordance with existing nomination processes.
> (In other words, this gives you the ability to identify specific
> _versions_ of an article as "featured", rather than the article as a
> whole.) Finally, sysops will be permitted to define on a per-page
> basis that changes need to be patrolled before being visible to
> unregistered readers. This is an alternative to semi-protection; it
> doesn't make sense to use both on a given page.
>
> The use of these features is subject to policies that your wiki
> community will need to develop. They should be used carefully until
> such a policy is in place.
>
> To activate the patrolling configuration,
>
> 1) File a request on http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ of type
> "enhancement", component "site request". You may need to create a
> BugZilla account to do this.
>
> 2) Title your request "Enable FlaggedRevs Patrolling Configuration on
> (my project name)".
>
> 3) Post a link to your BugZilla request to your project's "Village
> pump" and mailing list, if available.
>
> If there are no objections on the BugZilla page, the request will be
> considered valid after 7 days. (It may still take a while longer to
> process it.)
>
> == Custom Configurations ==
>
> The FlaggedRevs extension is highly flexible in its configuration. We
> are willing to accommodate custom requests. Since some configurations
> of FlaggedRevs could be considered highly disruptive, the requirements
> are somewhat higher.
>
> 1) Read about the configuration options at:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
> and experiment with the live demo at:
> http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
>
> 2) Create a page in the "Project:" namespace (e.g. "Wikipedia:",
> "Wikibooks:") of your wiki community describing the configuration you
> want to use.
>
> 3) Create a BugZilla request as above, titled "Enable FlaggedRevs
> custom configuration on (my project name)" pointing to the proposal
> page you have created. Provide an English translation of all relevant
> information if possible - or we may not be able to help you.
>
> 4) Post a link to your proposal and to the BugZilla request to the
> various relevant channels of your wiki community, e.g. "village pump",
> mailing list.
>
> If there are no objections within 14 days, your request will be
> considered valid. If there are objections, please try building
> consensus. If necessary, you can also resort to a poll (a very large
> majority, at least two thirds, is generally necessary).
>
> Note that custom configurations will take longer to process, and might
> sit in the technical support queue for several weeks.
>
> Our developers will _only_ look at the information attached to the
> BugZilla request, so please make sure that everything relevant is at
> least linked from there.
>
> == Translators needed ==
>
> The user interface of the FlaggedRevs extension needs to be translated
> into as many languages as possible. The extension can be localized
> using http://translatewiki.net/ - please follow the instructions there
> to become a translator.
>
> == User interface developers needed ==
>
> If you are a PHP developer with JavaScript/CSS experience, your help
> in improving the user interface experience (by improving the CSS or
> adding AJAX features) would be appreciated. Just check out a fresh
> copy of the MediaWiki code and the FlaggedRevs code and get started:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion
> http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
>
> If you need committer access to our version control system, please
> e-mail <commitaccess at wikimedia dot org>, attaching your SSH key and
> desired username as per the above link.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:37:40 -0500
> From: "Pedro Sanchez" <pdsanchez at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
>        <9ac45b70805301637v6d79d489uebaca9b5ffb0d888 at mail.gmail.com>
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> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > All -
> >
> > I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> > previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> > mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> > English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> > foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> > lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> > places.
> >
>
> I'm translating the interface at betawiki into spanish, I expect to
> finish today or tomorrow morning. Is it still time for that?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:14:46 -0300
> From: "Luiz Augusto" <lugusto at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
>        <6ab3ffc80805301914ie654f68n311d2ea55df0cc8b at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > > All -
> > >
> > > I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> > > previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> > > mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> > > English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> > > foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> > > lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> > > places.
> > >
> >
> > I'm translating the interface at betawiki into spanish, I expect to
> > finish today or tomorrow morning. Is it still time for that?
> >
>
> UI already fully translated into Portuguese (done by me and Malafaya @
> betawiki)
>
> Announcement going to be translated by me yesterday and spammed on all
> Portuguese Wikimedia projects (Village pumps) or at 2:00 AM (UTC) or at
> 16:00 from 4 July
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:21:01 -0300
> From: "Luiz Augusto" <lugusto at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> er... replace yesterday by tomorrow from my previous message O_o
>
> /me going to bed
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >> > All -
> >> >
> >> > I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> >> > previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> >> > mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> >> > English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> >> > foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> >> > lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> >> > places.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm translating the interface at betawiki into spanish, I expect to
> >> finish today or tomorrow morning. Is it still time for that?
> >>
> >
> > UI already fully translated into Portuguese (done by me and Malafaya @
> > betawiki)
> >
> > Announcement going to be translated by me yesterday and spammed on all
> > Portuguese Wikimedia projects (Village pumps) or at 2:00 AM (UTC) or at
> > 16:00 from 4 July
> >
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