[Translators-l] ** Re: [Fundraiser 2008] Translations begin!

[urduwala]

hi there,

i like to join with urdu language experties.

regds

urduwala


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aphaia" <aphaia at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Translators-l] [Fundraiser 2008] Translations begin!


> Ikuko, you are welcome :)
>
> There are translation teams in several languages (see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_teams you may find other
> teams like Arabic, Chinese ...) but there are not all of many
> languages which are empowered by multiple translators. There are many
> languages without such pages but still collaborating.
>
> If you feel working alone in your language, you could try to
> communicate other translators
>
> * via IRC [1]
> * via skype [2]
> * via Babylon noticeboard [3]
>
> And of course on this mailing list.
>
> [1]irc://chat.freenode.net/wikimedia-translation
> [2]http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?skypename=bastique&topic=WMF%202008%20Fundraiser%20Translations%20Channel%20-%20Translations%20expected%20to%20begin%20soon%20(source%20materials%20by%20TONIGHT%20PDT!)&blob=uTvg-ZH_VfjTEWi9uTHwhlweP9tWqqr2h6TtMsbltGgb4SYd8VlEqLG-0_pTZnWc6azkXy9DAb1I2x3zToWa8hMqPFijcsTqu5yb-RoJBJroDI9d03HcRaOxw8AysUiqSzubWl0-dXSbakkuSyeMVWjArZEDDbOoVc9ijXYrAb-sFlkGLg2OfIZnxogXRZTpZ01CVsFIuzZyQsQ7qMxbj_A1wg
> [3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Babylon
>
> Happy translation!
> -- 
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Ikuko Kawasaki
> <ikuko.kawasaki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Aphaia,
>>
>> Thanks for having me in the team!!
>>
>> Ikuko
>>
>> On 10/23/08, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ikuko and Casey,
>>> welcome to the team, Ikuko. I am grad to see you here :)
>>>
>>> Casey is right in his explanation. I would like to add there would be
>>> other Japanese translators if lucky. Some of them may be listed at
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_teams/ja
>>>
>>> One another tip: if you are working on wiki directly you would like to
>>> warn other users using  {{inuse}} [1] which let the other know someone
>>> is editing the page and avoid edit conflict.
>>>
>>> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Inuse
>>>
>>> Happy editing :)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Ikuko Kawasaki
>>> > <ikuko.kawasaki at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi, Casey.
>>> >>
>>> >> This is my first time to work on Wikimedia, and I have a question for
>>> >> you...
>>> >>
>>> >> Am I the only one who is working on translating this message into
>>> >> Japanese, or are there a group of volunteers who are translating this
>>> >> message into the same language at that same time?
>>> >>
>>> >> Does this make sense?  I am a bit confused with what I am supposed to
>>> >> do.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you!
>>> >> Ikuko
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Hey Ikuko!
>>> >
>>> > Short answer: it can be either.  Normally, one person looks at the 
>>> > page
>>> > and
>>> > translates it (or as much as they can).  Then we find some other
>>> > Japanese
>>> > speakers to copyedit the translation.  However, if you have another 
>>> > user
>>> > who
>>> > also speaks Japanese, you guys can work on translating it together.
>>> >
>>> > Basically, you can start now (by clicking the "missing" link next to
>>> > "ja")
>>> > and more people might come along to help you later. :-)  Does that 
>>> > make
>>> > sense?
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Casey Brown
>>> > Cbrown1023
>>> >
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