[Translators-l] Help us translate a global community survey for Wikimedia
mathieu stumpf guntz
psychoslave at culture-libre.org
Fri Dec 9 10:50:03 UTC 2016
Could you please provide a link to the corresponding transaltion
document next to the translation progress rate? Thank you in advance.
Le 09/12/2016 à 08:02, Edward Galvez a écrit :
> Dear translators,
>
> Here is our progress so far with the translations. Thank you SO MUCH
> to those of you who have already been helping - you know who you are :)
>
> If you are interested in helping with the rest of these, please let
> me know!
>
> Arabic, 100% (done!)
> French, 53.99%
> German, 37.10%
> Italian, 82.44%
> Japanese, 2.98%
> Polish, 29.22%
> Portuguese, 1.91%
> Russian, 0.00%
> Simplified Chinese, 2.98%
> Spanish, 73.44%
> Dutch, 2.55%
> Farsi, 0.00%
> Hebrew, 0.00%
> Korean, 0.00%
> Swedish, 0.00%
> Turkish, 0.00%
> Ukranian, 6.67%
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Edward Galvez <egalvez at wikimedia.org
> <mailto:egalvez at wikimedia.org>> wrote:
>
> Dear Translators,
>
> My name is Edward Galvez and I work at the Wikimedia Foundation,
> supporting surveys for the movement. The Foundation will be
> running a rather large survey in early January called Community
> Engagement Insights. In order for it to be easily accessible to as
> many editors as possible in the entire Wikimedia movement we need
> help to translate the survey into as many languages as we can.
>
> The purpose of the survey is to know how well we are supporting
> the work of Wikimedians and how we can change or improve things in
> the future. The opinions that are shared through the survey will
> directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia
> Foundation. You can find more information about the survey on meta.[1]
>
> We need some help translating the survey from English into the
> following 10 key languages: Arabic, French, German, Italian,
> Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and
> Russian. Translations in additional languages as also welcome, as
> long as the survey can be fully translated in those languages.
>
> We will be using a Google spreadsheet to perform the translations.
> This is a logistical decision, as moving translations from
> Meta-wiki to Qualtrics (the platform of choice to hold the survey)
> is very complicated.
>
> I know that it is customary to perform outreach through the
> community on Meta when it comes to translations, however, given
> the size and possible impact of the survey, I am trying to
> minimize pre-exposure of the questions to avoid survey bias. For
> that reason, I’m directly reaching out to WMF staff, affiliates
> and highly trusted community members like you instead.
>
> Keep in mind that you don’t have to carry all the burden of the
> translation alone should you decide to help; this can be spread
> among several translators working together on the same language.
> We may also hold online sessions where groups can translate
> together (I will be helping to translate in Spanish and
> Portuguese). If you’re willing to assist, I would kindly ask for
> your help in obtaining the best data we can by not sharing with
> other users any of the questions on the survey, unless with
> another trusted community member willing to co-translate with you.
>
> If you are interested in helping and have some free time over the
> next two weeks, please respond to me directly to let me know which
> language you can help translate and I will follow up with more
> information. Our deadline for the translations to be completed is
> December 9th.
>
>
> I look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Thank you everyone!
> Edward
>
> [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_Insights
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_Insights>
>
>
>
> --
> Edward Galvez
> Evaluation Strategist (Survey Specialist), and
> Affiliations Committee Liaison
> Learning & Evaluation
> Community Engagement
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
>
>
> --
> Edward Galvez
> Evaluation Strategist (Survey Specialist), and
> Affiliations Committee Liaison
> Learning & Evaluation
> Community Engagement
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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