Err, guys - Eleri would be a she. :)
Arwel Parry On 20 Nov 2010, at 01:57, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
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