[Translators-l] How should I translate "the Board"?

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

So, should we launch something to make possibly confusing terms more 
distinctive, or at least some recommendation about how should preferably 
name each of them in official documentation? Well, having a page 
defining Endowment Advisory Board roles and composition on Meta would 
also seems interesting to my mind. :)

As anyone suggestion about actionable items about that?


Le 27/01/2017 à 14:09, Alice Wiegand a écrit :
> So, there is also a) the Advisory Board 
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board> and b) the 
> Endowment Advisory Board as described in 
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Establishment_of_Endowment 
>
> In the same resolution you after all find a mixed use of Board of 
> Directors and Board of Trustees which I wasn't aware of when we voted 
> (and which I find very confusing by myself).
>
> Alice.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:01 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz 
> <psychoslave at culture-libre.org <mailto:psychoslave at culture-libre.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>     The text also refer to an "Executive Director", so I looked if
>     there was an "Executive Board" to make sure "Board" couldn't be
>     ambiguous. As far as I found, there was an "Executive committee"
>     now "considered disbanded
>     <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_committees#Executive_committee>".
>
>     So, am I right thinking that there is no other "board" or
>     "committee" with which the term "Board" and its translations might
>     create confusion?
>
>
>     Le 26/01/2017 à 12:22, Ilario Valdelli a écrit :
>>     "Consiglio direttivo" for languages connected with the latin.
>>
>>     In this case the translation is not a simple translation of
>>     wording but has a legal value and replicates the organizational
>>     aspects.
>>
>>     "Consiglio direttivo" or "Conseil de direction" or "Consejo
>>     directivo" is the body that gives the strategies and the
>>     direction to the executive body.
>>
>>     This is the choise we did in Switzerland to translate it in
>>     Italian and in French.
>>
>>     Personally I would appreciate a lot to translate "Board of
>>     Trustee" with "Consiglio di fondazione", but "Consiglio
>>     direttivo" clarifies better the role (in several foundations the
>>     decisional aspects are in charge of an executive director and of
>>     his cabinet).
>>
>>     Kind regards
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:08 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz
>>     <psychoslave at culture-libre.org
>>     <mailto:psychoslave at culture-libre.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm working on this:
>>
>>         https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-2017_Wikimedia_movement_strategy_process&language=eo&filter=%21translated&action=translate
>>         <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=agg-2017_Wikimedia_movement_strategy_process&language=eo&filter=%21translated&action=translate>
>>
>>         where "Board" is a recurring term.
>>
>>         I guess that it is referring to the board of trustees
>>         <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_trustees>. Am I wrong?
>>
>>         If not, in the previous link, translations are rather parse
>>         in their meaning (as far as I can say):
>>
>>           * Kuratorium
>>           * Consejo directivo
>>           * Zuzendaritza Batzordea
>>           * Comité des sages
>>           * Rada Powiernicza
>>           * Conselho Diretivo
>>
>>         I translated "trustees" it in Esperanto to "kuratoro" (you
>>         find the same roots in the German translation), and "board of
>>         trustees" as "kuratoraro" (group of "kuratoro"), but "board"
>>         alone as "estraro" (group of leader/boss/chief).
>>
>>         Any comment is welcome.
>>
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