Ah, I thought he was referring to the link on the centralnotice banners.
_______________________________ Philippe Beaudette Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone, please understand any misspellings or errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Casey Brown" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 7:51 pm Subject: [Translators-l] Where are we with the fundraiser? To: "Wikimedia Translators" <[email protected]> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Eleri James <[email protected]> wrote: > The latest version of the appeal banner links to the appeal letter, with > donation > messages which are on the Fundraising 2010/core messages for translation at > meta, rather than the Donate interface extension messages at > translatewiki.net. > I completed the translation of the new core messages (including the text of > the > latest site notice) 3 days ago, since it seemed urgent to translate something > which has already been put to use in the Fundraiser. Presumably the volunteers > who are able to publish these are just snowed under, but I want to request > publication anyway. It is really annoying to have the site message appear in > English. > I just opened up the Welsh Wikipedia and I see a Welsh banner ("Darllenwch: / Apêl bersonol gan / Jimmy Wales, sylfaenydd Wicipedia") that links me to a Welsh donation page: <http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/cy>. > When site notices were posted for all foundation wikis together, it used to be > that a link to the translation pages on meta was provided on the site notice. > The > site banner this year has no such link. Is this deliberate? Would you consider > putting a link up just for a few days, to encourage more translations? Good point! That wasn't deliberate actually, I think we all just forgot to update the local Meta-Wiki sitenotice to link to the fundraising translation pages. I added a note, just like last year: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=2215352> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Philippe Beaudette <[email protected]> wrote: > -- It was deliberate. The issue was this: each link that leads to anywhere > but the donation > pages from the banner results in an "abandon" rate, which means that people > got distracted > from taking the single path that we need them to: directly to the donation > page. Those > abandon rates are substantial... on the scale of hundreds of thousands of > link follows. I don't think Eleri is talking about links on *foundationwiki*, I think he's talking about ones on *metawiki*. He wanted a link in the Meta-Wiki sitenotice to the fundraising translation pages so that visitors from other wikis looking for the materials to translate them could find them more easily. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
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