[Translators-l] translation of hashtags on SMshare

[Sam Chapman]

On 11/16/10 4:48 PM, vassia atanassova wrote:
> I was wondering the same, but I decided to translate Wikipedia and 
> separate the hashtag.
> See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/SMshare/bg
> Regards,
> Vassia
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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Eleri James <elerijms at yahoo.co.uk 
> <mailto:elerijms at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Dear anyone who knows the answer,
>
>     I have a question on the SMshare section of the translation of the
>     2010 fundraiser. It is at
>     http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/SMshare. There is
>     a hashtag which is part of a sentence there - "I just donated
>     to #Wikipedia."  Apparently we shouldn't translate the hashtag.
>     What happens if Wikipedia is spelt differently in your language,
>     or is written in a non-Roman script?
>
>     Yours sincerely,
>     Eleri James
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Vassia is correct. The hashtag is universal for social media.


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