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

Bojan Jankuloski bojan.jankuloski at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 12:20:57 UTC 2014


I do apologize, it was a mistake. The text is Macedonian and it was
supposed to go into the /mk translation. Sorry for that.

On 2 July 2014 09:57, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> 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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