[Translators-l] 2012 Editor Survey is about to launch

[Simon Shek]

I was a little bit confused with the language selector too.
They seems sorting in a random order at the first sight. (I found out they
are sorted with language code later.)

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> A couple of comments:
>
> 1. For the future, don't rely exclusively on capital letters for
> emphasis. Most alphabets don't have capital letters.
>
> 2. The language selectors are very, very uncomfortable. They are not
> alphabetically sorted and it's very hard to find the right language.
> You probably won't be able to change it for this time, but please
> consider this for the next time.
>
> 3. Finally, is it possible to update the Hebrew translation of the
> survey? I fixed some significant errors there :)
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> ‪“We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>
>
> 2012/10/29 Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org>:
> > The 2012 Editor Survey will start today on Wikipedia projects and
> > Commons. Many people have already helped with providing and reviewing
> > translations on Meta. But we can still use help for a last
> > double-check of the translated questionnaires as they appear in the
> > actual survey, to help ensure that survey participants won't encounter
> > issues when taking the survey in their own language:
> >
> > Arabic:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=AR
> >
> > German:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=DE
> >
> > Spanish:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=ES
> >
> > French:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=FR
> >
> > Hebrew:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=HE
> >
> > Italian:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=IT
> >
> > Japanese:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=JA
> >
> > Dutch:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=NL
> >
> > Polish:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=PL
> > (the Polish translation has not been fully reviewed yet and may launch
> > somewhat later than the rest)
> >
> > Russian:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=RU
> >
> > Swedish:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=SV
> >
> > Ukrainian:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=UK
> >
> > Chinese (Simplified):
> >
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=ZH-S
> >
> > Chinese (Traditional):
> >
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=ZH-T
> >
> >
> > English:
> https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_elCCS27RBSOaJ25&RecipientLanguage=EN
> >
> > We will monitor this thread throughout the survey for any issues that
> > might come up. But in case there are translation errors that survived
> > the review phase, feel free to correct them directly on Meta instead.
> > The translations are listed at
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012/Questions#NOTICE_ABOUT_TRANSLATIONS
> > . (For those not yet familiar with the Translate extension interface:
> > Go to the translation that you want to correct, then click "translated
> > version" on top. The downward arrow ("↓") links on the left allow to
> > edit the corresponding translation unit.)
> >
> > Notes:
> > * In this edition of the survey, the translations have been imported
> > from Meta by bot, rather than manually, so we expect much fewer issues
> > resulting from copy+paste errors.
> > * The Portuguese version will launch a bit later.
> > * The above links to qualtrics.com are just for testing, and survey
> > responses entered after following them will be discarded in the
> > evaluation of results. Of course you are welcome to participate as
> > editor in the actual survey once it has launched. You should be shown
> > a banner invitation when accessing Commons or one of the participating
> > Wikipedias on the first time after the launch, when being logged in.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
> > Wikimedia Foundation
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> >
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Simon Shek
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