[Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News bulletin #15 (2014)

[Bohdan Melnychuk]

It wold be nice to notify in here about sudden unexpected changes :) --Base
07.04.2014 22:47, Aya Mahfouz написав(ла):
> Hello Everyone,
>
>   I have a small remark concerning the latest tech news. Bawolff 
> changed the frozen issue on Sunday to indicate that MediaWiki was not 
> deployed due to localization issues.
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech%2FNews%2F2014%2F15&diff=8080351&oldid=8071894
>
> Given that I'm usually late in doing my translations, I realized the 
> change just before I leave the page. But most of the translators, 
> mostly the guys who finalize their translations on Saturday, missed 
> the update.
>
> Would it be best for translators to bookmark the current issue to 
> track such sudden changes or is there a better solution?
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Siebrand Mazeland <siebrand at kitano.nl 
> <mailto:siebrand at kitano.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you, Philippe.
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr
>     <mailto:verdy_p at wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
>
>         This was my fault, nobody noticed it since end of 2013 in the
>         early translation !
>
>         https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ATech_news_nav%2Fnl&diff=6868910&oldid=6868410
>
>         It is fixed.
>
>         2014-04-07 18:19 GMT+02:00 Siebrand Mazeland
>         <siebrand at kitano.nl <mailto:siebrand at kitano.nl>>:
>
>             I see something strange on
>             https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/15/nl
>
>             This line is incorrect: "2014, *15. Wort *(maandag 07
>             april 2014)". In English it says "2014, *week 15* (Monday
>             07 April 2014)". In Dutch it should be the same as in
>             English ("week 15"). Where can this be corrected?
>
>             Cheers!
>
>
>             On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Philippe Verdy
>             <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr <mailto:verdy_p at wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
>
>                 In fact only 14: exclude German and Korean whose only
>                 translations are generic items recurring each week;
>                 and possibly Japanese as well that just adds 2
>                 effective items translated (in planned changes, bit
>                 none in effective changes).
>
>                 I wonder why German gets no translation since long;
>                 given the number of German Wikimedians.
>
>                 It's less surprising for Korean even if (South) Korea
>                 has excellent level of Internet coverage since long
>                 (but also its older and popular cooperative and social
>                 platforms, explaining why Wikimedia is not so
>                 successful there). But may be most Koreans don't feel
>                 the need to translate English (because many of them
>                 have excellent education levels and can easily read
>                 English; but educated Koreans may have chosen another
>                 secondary language than only English, such as Chinese,
>                 Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish or Arabic and
>                 would like to get translations from English to their
>                 primary Korean language).
>
>                 Or may be there are specific difficulties for
>                 translating technical English to Korean (we are
>                 speaking about tech news here, not general news, songs
>                 and poems). It's rare to find technical documents
>                 written in Korean on the Internet (much more than in
>                 Chinese or Japanese).
>
>
>                 2014-04-07 14:50 GMT+02:00 Tomasz W. Kozlowski
>                 <tomasz at twkozlowski.net <mailto:tomasz at twkozlowski.net>>:
>
>                     Vira Motorko wrote:
>
>                         How many languages this week? =)
>
>
>                     Sixteen! :-)
>
>                       Tomasz
>
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>             Siebrand Mazeland
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