2011/1/27 Jesse (Pathoschild) pathosch...@gmail.com:
These messages are available to all wikis
(including non-Wikimedia wikis), instead of just one wiki.
That means contributing as a volunteer to a variety of websites with
different principles. Wikimedia is a non profit and it is dedicated to
On 28 January 2011 14:12, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/1/27 Jesse (Pathoschild) pathosch...@gmail.com:
These messages are available to all wikis
(including non-Wikimedia wikis), instead of just one wiki.
That means contributing as a volunteer to a variety of websites with
Hoi,
When you contribute at translatewiki.net, you contribute to the localisation
of Open Source / Free software. When YOU only want to contribute to
Wikipedia, please do not localise MediaWiki because it does not give us all
the best solution.
Your notion of Wikimedia and its contributions are
2011/1/27 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
One very powerful reason why you should not localise locally is because
there is no way that you will know locally when a message gets changed. The
consequence is that the quality of locally localised messages do not get the
same quality
2011/1/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are
happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the use of our
project. When the CIA wants to use LocalisationUpdate and its people help
localise at translatewiki.net we could not be
Hoi,
When messages get changed in the code repository system by people who
contribute to the development of MediaWiki, it is done in a Wikimedia
Foundation project. When messages change, it is detected at
translatewiki.net and consequently action is taken to signal the need for
action. This is
Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/1/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are
happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the
Hoi,
Sorry but there are a few people who have the power and who do the work.
When an organisation does contribute at translatewiki.net, that is exactly
what they do. When you want to contribute you are welcome, not because you
are a Wikipedian but because you contribute to the localisation of
An'n 28.01.2011 16:11, hett Arlen Beiler schreven:
Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki.
That seems sensible! *eyeroll*
If you look in the archives of this mailing list, you'll notice that the
Translatewiki guys asked Wikimedia to host the wiki more than once. They
would
On 28 January 2011 15:08, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's imagine a group with non-democratic values provides translators
to Translatewiki.
You really don't understand that for any purpose bit, do you?
If you don't want to contribute to a project (Wikimedia,) whose works
On 28 January 2011 15:49, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 15:08, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's imagine a group with non-democratic values provides translators
to Translatewiki.
You really don't understand that for any purpose bit, do you?
If you don't
2011/1/28 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com:
Strainu wrote:
These messages can be improved by introducing internal links and references
to
wiki* policies.
Why do you hate Wiktionary? ;-)
MZMcBride
Nice one :) Actually I could go on for ages on why wiktionary is bad
, but that would be
Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia
users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message
used on their project into their own language.
It is no longer possible now, because Translatewiki exists, and there
is a powerful Translatewiki lobby within
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia
users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message
used on their project into their own language.
You still are. It's called the
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
(...)
So users are requested to either
* Let awkward translations go on being displayed on their language
version of Wikipedia
* Or open an account on a non-Wikimedia project, which means providing
non-Wikimedia managers
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia
users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message
used on their project into their own language.
It is no longer possible now, because
2011/1/27 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia
users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message
used on their project into their own language.
It is no longer possible now,
As Chad said, it's still possible
The free encyclopedia that anyone can translate?
I find Translatewiki.net very user-unfriendly.
WMF could use more than one site for the translations.
For example, I would prefer to use Transifex :
http://www.transifex.net/
--
Fajro
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Hoi,
Yes you can localise at your own Wiki. It is even recommended for several
messages, particularly those messages that are specific to messages about
policies and what not particular to your wiki. Such specific texts are
explicitly what we do not want at translatewiki.net because at
2011/1/27 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
2011/1/27 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia
users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message
used on their project into their own language.
It is no
On 28/01/2011, at 7:22, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
That's one of the reasons I proposed the implementation of an open-id
provider using the Wikimedia login (i.e. being able to login to
translatewiki and other websites using your wikipedia password)
+1. yes please!
Wittylama.com/blog
Strainu wrote:
These messages can be improved by introducing internal links and references to
wiki* policies.
Why do you hate Wiktionary? ;-)
MZMcBride
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