[Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News #49 (2016)

[Johan Jönsson]

Sure. I'll take this on the list rather than as a private reply, as I
imagine it's a relevant reminder for everyone who translated Tech
News.

There's no automatic deploy window. I (or someone else, normally
User:Trizek or User:Quiddity if I'm unavailable for some reason) go
through this process:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Manual#Distribution – which
means it's not done exactly at the same time every week, but rather
when I (or whoever is distributing it) have time to sit down and take
care of it. As promised in the email I send out on Thursdays, I never
distribute Tech News before Monday afternoon UTC. I have a list of
deadlines here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors#The_deadlines

The Monday 15:00 UTC (Monday 14:00 UTC during daylight saving time)
deadline is when I solemnly promise all Tech News translators that
their translations will be included in the newsletter – Tech News is
never distributed to the wikis earlier than that. In reality, it will
usually be a few hours later, and occasionally closer to midnight UTC
if I have a very busy day and there's something I urgently need to
take care of (but I normally try to avoid that, for my own sake if
nothing else).

I tend to remove the deadline template the last thing I do before
distributing Tech News
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech/News/2016/48&diff=16108009&oldid=16103780).
If it's still there and you haven't seen the weekly thank you email on
this list, the newsletter shouldn't have been distributed yet.

I should probably incorporate at least the link to the deadlines in
the weekly announcement telling you there's a new issue ready for
translation. Thank you for asking this question.

//Johan Jönsson
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:31 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz
<psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:
> You're welcome. Also I just finished the Esperanto translation, but I don't
> know if there is a automatic deploy window by bots that I might have missed.
> Could you provide some hints on how it's treated?
>
>
> Le 05/12/2016 à 10:12, Johan Jönsson a écrit :
>
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it. (:
>
> //Johan Jönsson
> --
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:08 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz
> <psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you might use some combination of tvar and magicwords or templates
> for this kind of recurrent messages:
>
> The [[$version|new version]] of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
> MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some
> Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December
> ([[$calendar|calendar]]).
>
> Clearly you just have date which will change, and those date and their
> locale representation could be embedded in a tvar, if I'm not too
> optimistic.
>
> Thus the message would allways appear the same for translators, make a 100%
> match with previous translations, and so make translation a little bit
> faster and easier. :)
>
>
> Le 02/12/2016 à 18:03, Johan Jönsson a écrit :
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Johan Jönsson <jjonsson at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/49
>
> Direct translation link:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2016%2F49&action=page
>
> The text of the newsletter is now final. One new item has been added.
> There won't be any more changes; you can translate safely.
>
> Thank you, and have a good weekend!
>
> //Johan Jönsson
> --
>
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