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

mathieu stumpf guntz psychoslave at culture-libre.org
Mon Dec 5 11:54:35 UTC 2016


Ok, thank you for the exhaustiveness of the answer.


Le 05/12/2016 à 11:00, Johan Jönsson a écrit :
> 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
> --
>
>
> 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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