Translation would be a dream, of course. And in every thing we do we try to establish a means for creating a translated version. For a complex design document like this, translation is never going to be easy.
The Outreach team's bookshelf project is exploring this challenge in detail, and in the next few months I hope we can collaboratively develop a production strategy for multi-lingual documents. If so, there's a chance that we might use that approach for the subsequent annual report. It's a very difficult undertaking, and not one that would easily unfold economically or in the same look and feel style that we're aiming for in the report. Certainly something to consider. -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:26 AM, Seb35 wrote: > As Liam said: Beautiful document. To enhance it for the non-English > speakers, is it possible to translate it? I began (for the French > language) but it would be a waste of time if it cannot be published in > French, or at least indicated on [1] there is a (eventually > unofficial) French version. There is also a lot of page layout which > must be adapted (are the sources of the PDF available? in a > Scribus/InDesign/other format). > > Sébastien/Seb35 > > [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report > >> From: Jay Walsh <[email protected]> >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:09:45 -0800 >> Subject: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report >> Hi all, >> >> In the next day or so Rand and the fundraising team will be sending out an >> email to all of our donors (about 230,000 - thanks to a tremendous >> fundraiser) recapping the campaign sharing our 2nd annual report, which you >> can also read here: >> >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report >> >> As with our previous year's report, we make an effort to describe the year's >> activities, our major accomplishments, our financial successes, and where >> we're heading in the coming year/years. This is a crucial tool for our >> fundraisers and for building strong relationships with our major >> stakeholders, and of course to let our chapters and our vast community of >> volunteers get a snapshot of our work. It's primarily intended to work as a >> print document, and one that quickly presents top-line data and key >> information, as well as a basic structured narrative about the Foundation >> and our volunteer community's work. >> >> You'll note that our report is out later than last year, and this isn't a >> pattern we'll duplicate :) We did spend more time on design and narrative >> this year, with the intention of bringing more depth to the story, >> especially in features like the center-spread anatomy of an article. We >> also wanted to put more of a forward-facing direction on the report. >> Optimally our report will always come out 2-3 months after the close of >> fiscal, as soon as our audited statements are complete. >> >> There's still more good work to be done, but it's a big leap from last year. >> This year's designers David Peters and Rhonda Rubenstein did a great job >> (collectively known as 'ExBrook design' here in SF http://www.exbrook.com/). >> Lane Hartwell's ccbysa photos feature prominently - she's been shooting our >> staff portraits for the last two years >> (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photography_by_Lane_Hartwell). >> >> We'll be starting work on the next edition in a few months. About 1500 >> copies will be printed here in the next week or so. We'll be sure to bring >> copies to the chapter meeting and of course Wikimania. We can ship some >> copies out as well if there's interest (but in limited quantities only, it's >> a pricy shipment after 10 locations :) >> >> Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! >> >> -- >> Jay Walsh >> Head of Communications >> WikimediaFoundation.org >> blog.wikimedia.org >> +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
