[Translators-l] FDC Elections Banner Translations

[James Alexander]

Yeah sadly, however I'll send out another mass notice for the main
translations page (I sent out one for elections early on a couple weeks ago
too).

James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:54 AM, 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. :)
>
> Good point, but it's currently not possible technically to send such a
> translation notifications for banner translations (only for page
> translations): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58187
>
> >
> > 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. 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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