[Translators-l] Fwd: CentralNotice translation request

Paul Selitskas p.selitskas at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 16:41:27 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski
<odder.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello translators,
> here's a small translation request for Wiki Loves Monuments'
> CentralNotice campaign -- please help if you can!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Hi all,
> as you know, we'll be using the CentralNotice system again this year
> to call people to participate in the competition.
>
> [For those of you that don't know the technical details of
> CentralNotice: we'll be geolocating our banners to visitors and users
> only from the participating countries (35/36 at the moment). The
> banners will be displayed on all Wikimedia projects in the language of
> the user (or rather his/her browser), and will direct them to an
> external Wiki Loves Monuments website for their country (hence the
> geolocation) -- for example, users from Argentina will receive a
> banner in Spanish (mostly), linking to the Argentinian website:
> <http://wikilovesmonuments.com.ar/>.]
>
> Just like last year, we need a catchy phrase to interest people in the
> contest. Due to a lack of better ideas ;-) the current slogan is the
> last year's: "Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help
> Wikipedia and win!". This slogan is translated into 17 of the 33
> languages used in the participating countries; we still miss the
> following ones:
>
> * Afrikaans;
> * American English -- not sure if the US guys are going to keep the
> phrase "monument"? :-)
> * Belarusian (both in the normative ortography and the Taraškievica);
> * Czech;
> * Hebrew;
> * Hindi (not sure if it's going to be used in India?);
> * Interlingua;
> * Luxembourgish;
> * Malayalam;
> * Russian;
> * Serbian;
> * Swahili;
> * Tagalog;
> * Tamil;
> * Ukrainian.
>
> There are also several other languages or dialect/variants I might
> have missed (Romantsh, Canadian English, Austrian German, Swiss High
> German, German-formal address, and several languages used in South
> Africa and India come to my mind first), so if you find one and can
> translate into it, please do so!
>
> The slogans can be find at
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/CentralNotice#Main_banner>,
> and that's where the translation should appear also. And let's set
> 23:59:59 (UTC) as the deadline, because we need to move the
> translations onto Meta in time :-))
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Tomasz W. Kozłowski
> a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
>
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Done for Belarusian (actually it was done already right through meta
editprotected request). But remember, that be-tarask code must be used
instead of be-x-old.

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З павагай,
Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas
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p.selitskas at gmail.com, +375257408304
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