[Translators-l] FDC Elections Banner Translations

[Bojan Jankuloski]

Hello,
Macedonian (mk) is done. Thanks for the notification!

Bojan

On 2 May 2015 at 16:54, Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy <minhhuywiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see, I am impressed by the WMF's efforts for translaton work of this
> election. However, I think there should be a public announcement for
> translators who signed in Special:TranslatorSignUp, or maybe it has been
> mentioned in a public site but I have missed. :)
>
> Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy (<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trần_Nguyễn_Minh_Huy>)
> Supporter, Vietnames Wikimedia Projects
>
> 2015-05-02 21:37 GMT+07:00 James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> Just to clarify: The reason they wanted it as translated as possible is
>> to make it easier for more, non English speaking, communities to
>> participate in the election in their native language and understand what's
>> happening.
>>
>> James Alexander
>> Community Advocacy
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>
>> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:33 AM, James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Minata Hatsune <minatahatsune at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am a translator working on Vietnamese language. I was surprised to
>>>> see the translation in the two links above is done correctly (although I've
>>>> edited a bit for more understandable). It's not like someone has used
>>>> Google Translate or other machine translation tools.
>>>>
>>>> The translator is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varnent. I am
>>>> curious whether he also understands this language? Despite his personal
>>>> page did not show it. I also have the same questions with the Vietnamese
>>>> translation of Call for candidates
>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_for_candidates/vi>.
>>>> It was done by a staff of WMF (Azariv), and I don't think he could
>>>> understand a strange language such as Vietnamese. I am active in many
>>>> Wikimedia projects in Vietnamese, but had never seen him before.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Minata,
>>>
>>> The board had as one of it's goals this year to have as much translated
>>> as possible for the board and FDC Elections (especially the board
>>> elections) because of that they asked me to pay for some professional
>>> translations for some targeted languages (mostly popular languages in
>>> different areas of the world, my boss Philippe picked them earlier for the
>>> strategy consultation a couple months ago) and Vietnamese was one of them.
>>>
>>> To be honest I've found community members make the best translations
>>> (especially given that some words are Wikimedia specific) but given the
>>> large amount of text and the short time schedule the elections have we
>>> wanted to ensure we'd get some translations in on time and allow community
>>> members to do the quick fixes that make it more understandable and that
>>> much better. Both Alex (Azariv) and Varnent were plugging those paid
>>> translations in.
>>>
>>> James Alexander
>>> Community Advocacy
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>>
>>
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