[Translators-l] New system for notifying translators, and two new requests

[Philippe Beaudette]

It looks like the status on that was set to published but it didn't
actually get published.  I'm doing it now.
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Philippe Beaudette
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Bojan Jankuloski <
bojan.jankuloski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello guys. I translated into Macedonian (mk) the updated updated Terms
> of use <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/mk> long ago, but it
> does not show it on Foundation Wiki when you click on the banner that
> displays the notice (the banner itself does show in the correct language,
> though). What is the problem there? This has been the case for at least a
> couple of weeks now.
>
>
> On 19 May 2012 04:29, Jon Harald Søby <jsoby at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that is a good point! I have posted it as Bug 36959 [1].
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36959
>>
>>
>> 2012/5/18 Benjamin Chen <cnchenminqi at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Great!
>>> Just one tiny bit of suggestion - after you submit, there is no
>>> indication that the submission is successful and the page remains
>>> unchanged. A bit unfriendly there. Who should I tell about this? Thanks!
>>> Best regards,
>>> [[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Jon Harald Søby <jsoby at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> The folks in the i18n team has made a great new tool for us to use,
>>>> which is live on Meta right now: [[Special:TranslatorSignup<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup>]].
>>>> What it does is that it lets you be notified when there are new pages for
>>>> translations. You sign up on that page, specifying what languages you are
>>>> willing to translate into, how you would like to be notified (e-mail, Meta
>>>> talk page or talk page on another wiki), and how often you would like to be
>>>> notified. This will make it much easier to target people by language, so
>>>> when we have something that only needs to be translated into, say,
>>>> Romanian, only people who speak Romanian will get the notification about
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> The thing we need for it now is to populate the database with
>>>> translators, so please *sign up*<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup>and help us test it! (Feedback is, as always, very welcome.)
>>>>
>>>> This also brings me to the next part – I have put up two "new" appeals
>>>> for translations for the next fundraiser. They are not actually new, as
>>>> they were both used in the previous fundraiser, but were put up a bit late,
>>>> so they weren't very widely translated.
>>>> The appeals are:
>>>>
>>>>    - GorillaWarfare's appeal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FGorillaWarfare+appeal&taction=translate> –
>>>>    this was the most widely translated one of the two, so it may already be
>>>>    done in your language. But if it is, it doesn't harm to proofread it once
>>>>    or twice. :-)
>>>>    - Sengai's appeal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FSengai+appeal&taction=translate>– this one was only requested for Indian languages last time, so it doesn't
>>>>    have very many translations. Now it is being requested for all languages
>>>>    though, so your help with this is much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Another new tool we have is the ability to group translatable pages
>>>> together, just like the message groups in Translatewiki. So you can now see
>>>> all fundraiser-related translations by going here<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-Fundraising_2012&taction=translate>.
>>>> You can see an overview of all translation requests at [[
>>>> Special:Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate>]]
>>>> or at [[Translation requests<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests>
>>>> ]].
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For now, live long and prosper. \V/
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jon Harald Søby
>>>> Community Fellow
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>
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