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

[Barbara Page]

I have a large block of time today to finish the translation. Can you give
me quick link again.Thanks so much.
Your Fan,
Barbara Page

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Johan Jönsson <jjonsson at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:50 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.
>
> I'll probably deliver this message in ~24 hours, just so you know what
> the deadline is.
>
> //Johan Jönsson
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>
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