[Translators-l] Translation request: Banners announcing the Wikipedia app on Android devices

Philippe Verdy verdy_p at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jul 2 07:57:36 UTC 2014


Someone (Bjankuloski06
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bjankuloski06>) introduced
Russian text in the French version !!!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=CNBanner:Wpapp2014Androidmobile_1-text1/fr&action=history

I corrected it. Please be careful and select the correct language before
translating !!!


2014-07-02 5:23 GMT+02:00 Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org>:

> Hi Seb35,
>
> translations are still welcome and needed in these languages (French,
> Italian, Russian, Dutch). There has been, or maybe still is, a weird
> technical issue with the first banner's translation group, e.g. the
> stats page at [1] was claiming until a few hours age this group has 0
> units (and 0 have been translated in any language, even though it has
> 3 units and translations already existed (e.g. [2]), being shown to
> millions of mobile readers over the last few days. The message you
> encountered looks like a different symptom of the same problem.
>
> It is looking OK now again though, are you able to enter French
> translations at [3] now?
>
> The issue is particularly strange because the translation group for
> the second banner did not show the same behavior (i.e. the stats at
> [4] continued to correctly show it as containing 3 messages, and
> recorded the existing translations correctly as well). That's even
> though both banners are completely identical except for the
> text,[5][6] and I didn't see anything in the logs that could have
> caused that difference. I strongly suspect it's a bug. Or is there
> another explanation? Any insights are welcome.
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Wpapp2014Androidmobile_1
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&action=proofread&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Wpapp2014Androidmobile_1&language=de&filter=translated
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Wpapp2014Androidmobile_1&language=fr&filter=%21translated&action=translate
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Wpapp2014Androidmobile_2
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/Wpapp2014Androidmobile_1
> [6]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/Wpapp2014Androidmobile_2
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I get the message "This message group is empty", is it too late to
> translate
> > or is it a misconfiguration?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~ Seb35
> >
> >
> > Le Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:24:23 +0200, Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org>
> a
> > écrit:
> >
> >> As many may already have seen, the new, fully revamped mobile
> >> Wikipedia app for Android was just released.[1] To bring it to the
> >> attention of mobile readers of Wikipedia, we are currently running
> >> banners (restricted to Android devices) which still need to be
> >> translated into the following languages:
> >>
> >> French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Dutch
> >>
> >> (Together with English and German, these correspond to the top 10
> >> languages - including variants - where the app is available in a
> >> localized version of sufficient quality, according to the developer
> >> team. The banners can be translated into other languages too, but they
> >> should only run in a language if the app is available in that
> >> language, too.)
> >>
> >> The text of the banners:
> >>
> >> "The new official Wikipedia app for Android:
> >> Faster speed, offline reading, and more."
> >> Translate at:
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Wpapp2014Androidmobile_1
> >>
> >> "32 million articles, 280+ languages, one app
> >> Download the new Wikipedia app now"
> >> Translate at:
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Wpapp2014Androidmobile_2
> >>
> >> Many thanks!
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/25/revamped-wikipedia-app-now-available-on-android/
>
>
>
> --
> Tilman Bayer
> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
> Wikimedia Foundation
> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
>
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