[Translators-l] Editing Wikipedia will stop for 30 minutes on two days: please translate the announcement

[Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder]

I am not on any board of directors for any organization (and happy to keep
it that way).


On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:39 AM Barbara Page <barbarafpage at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got it. Thanks.
> Barbara Page , Barbara (WVS)
>
> ps James Heilman has asked me to translate med articles into Kreyol. Are
> you or any other female on the WikiMed Foundation board?
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
> ssnyder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Also:  The time is listed in one sentence with a link to a page that will
> convert UTC to your own timezone, plus a long list of timezones that are
> common for editors.  If you are translating to a language that is mostly
> spoken in one region, please feel free to skip the less relevant time
> zones, and to add specifically relevant ones.  Most German speakers don't
> need to know the Japanese timezone, and vice versa.  It's good to put the
> CEST time in the German translation, and the JST time in the Japanese
> translation.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:56 AM Barbara Page <barbarafpage at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> The kreyol translation is on your Wikimedia talk page.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Barbara Page
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
> ssnyder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Please translate:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2017
>
>
> You may remember that the Technology department did a major test in April
> 2016 to see how well they could recover from a major disaster.  During this
> test, it was not possible to edit Wikipedia or any of the other WMF wikis
> for about 30 minutes on two days.
>
> They are repeating this exercise this year.  This will affect editors and
> contributors around the world, at Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikivoyages,
> Commons, and other WMF sites.  Please translate the main announcement into
> as many languages as possible.  Last year, we had complete translations
> into about 40 languages, and partial translations into a couple of other
> languages.
>
> This should be a relatively quick translation job.  The main change from
> last year is the dates and times.  I have just checked (by creating part of
> the German translation), and about 60% of the sentences are identical to
> last year and stored in translation memory.
>
> (Also, if you read German, please review the parts of the German
> translation that I copied.  :-)
>
> If you have questions, you can reach me in e-mail or on wiki.[1]
>
> THANK YOU!
>
>
> [1]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Whatamidoing_(WMF)&action=edit&section=new
>
>
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> Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
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