[Translators-l] Request for quick translation: Privacy Policy Change Banner

[Jon Harald Søby]

The {{#time:}} ParserFunction:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23time

Tell translators in the description to fill in whatever code from that list
is correct in their language. So for English it'll be "j F Y", for
Norwegian "j. F Y", for Farsi "xij xiF xiY" (I think). And then in the code
it'll be just {{#time:j F Y|2014-06-06}}, and you tell translators to keep
the date the same, but change the codes if necessary.


2014-05-06 19:43 GMT+02:00 James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org>:

> The  {{formatnum:6}} makes sense, I can add that in, (as I said earlier
> I'm happy for people to change it for their own numerical system, but that
> would certainly be easier). I don't know about a good way to call the
> formate date function sadly :-/ I tried to pick the 'most' universal option
> but it certainly isn't perfect and I completely agree with you that a
> format date format would be useful.
>
> James Alexander
> Legal and Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation
> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> Doesn't MediaWiki offer for all Wikimedia wikis the necessary support for
>> formating dates according to user preferences or local wiki defaults for
>> signatures?
>> If so, the number 6 you want will be inappropriate in Arabic and in many
>> date formats for South Asian languages using other digits.
>> MediaWiki offers {{formatnum:6}} for this purpose, it is easy to infer
>> where it is in the translation if you intend to change it. However June is
>> also the 6th month of the year (same day number) and you may wonder which
>> field is the day part if you don't know if the date uses "d;m;y" or "m:d;y"
>> formatting order (some languages don"t really have names for Gregorian
>> dates, but append a speific suffix to numbers to indicate if this is a
>> year, month or day, such as Chinese).
>>
>> A very small script will generate the formated dates that are then easy
>> to update in translations, even if you don't want to use templates for that
>> (because templates are wiki-dependant and their name vary).
>> But things would be even easier if all wikis had a parserfunction for
>> formatting dates given a matching language code (if the format is unknown
>> for that language, just use the ISO 8601 format yyy-mm-dd which is not
>> ambiguous in all existing languages, even if it is not the most usual
>> format for that language.
>> I just hope that one day we'll have a parser function like
>> {{formatdate:2014-06-06|ymd|language-code}} that will format the date using
>> the 3 fields (not padded with zero if not needed, but not rounded to 2
>> digits with the appropriate order, suffixes and separators, and possibly
>> their names; all in the appropriate script)
>>
>> CLDR data has this info and there's even a demo in the Unicode CLDR
>> website.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-06 2:07 GMT+02:00 James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org>:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The Legal team will be announcing later this week (currently planned for
>>> Wednesday) the start of a 30 day notice period that the privacy policy will
>>> be changing. This is the privacy policy that was discussed over a multi
>>> month period on wiki ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy )
>>> and was recently approved by the board. You can find the banner text to
>>> translate (using the translate extension) at
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-PPChangeNotice2014&filter=.
>>>
>>> If possible (transliteration is fine) we want to keep the day part of
>>> the date ( 6 ) as a number so that, if the announcement date gets pushed
>>> back for some reason or another, we can adjust the official starting date
>>> without affecting the translations much.
>>>
>>> Michelle is still finishing the blog post itself but the plan is to have
>>> it available for translation as well so that over the course of the month
>>> we can get it up in as many translations as possible.
>>>
>>> If you'd prefer you can also send me the translation off list and I'm
>>> happy to insert it. The current text is:
>>> Our Privacy Policy is changing on 6 June 2014.
>>> To learn more, click here.
>>>
>>> We also have the 'close' text (shown you hover over the close button)
>>> saying: Close
>>>
>>> James Alexander
>>> Legal and Community Advocacy
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>>
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