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

Barbara Page barbarafpage at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 18:56:52 UTC 2017


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
>
> --
> Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
> Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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