Re after some delay: Casey Brown <lists <at> caseybrown.org> writes: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tgr<gtisza <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It is a waste of translators' time to translate the SecurePoll admin > > interface to dozens of languages, which is what most of the voting-related > > translation requests (including this one) are about. Only a handful of > > people have access to that interface, and it is quite unlikely that any one > > of them doesn't understand English. It would be nice if the voter and admin > > interface of SecurePolls could be split into separate translation groups. > > > > Usually I'd agree with you, except that we're translating the > MediaWiki extension on betawiki so that it can be used on all > MediaWiki installations. I'm sure there's a Hungarian wiki (for > example the Hungarian chapter) out there that might want to use this > extension, and just imagine how happy they'd be when they realize it's > already been translated by a nice person!
Translator time is a very scarce resource, in Hungarian about half of the requests are never done, and I doubt it's very different for the other smaller languages. So it is not a good idea to mix in maybe-useful-but-unimportant requests; if we have to choose whether the admin interface or one more candidate summary should display in the local language, the latter is far more preferable. _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
