Thank you Joseph. Your answer cleared my head, and now translations updated.
--Takashi On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey takashi. > > 1) Tomorrow I plan to update the ways to give request. Its quite a job > integrating the translations and the original idea was that I wanted to > avoid translators having to worry about formatting but to be honest probably > just made the situation worse. In fact I am almost 100% certain I did. The > main reason for that attempt is that sometimes translators try to > transliterate or translate links or addresses when they shouldn't be and in > fact this reason in part applies to point 2 you raise. > > 2) Yeah that particular change was probably unnecesary and I have just > reverted that one. > > 3) I noticed that. For the time being its been easy enough to simply update > the number when I am moving the translations. The number was revised upwards > and didn't update all the numbers everywhere (too many numbers. Ill update > the number for future translations but so far its been a minor issue to > rectify :) > > Thanks :) > > Seddon > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Takashi OTA > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi lists, >> >> I'm working on the fundraising 2012 messages into Japanese. >> >> 1: >> In [[Fundraising_2012/Translation/Ways_to_give/12]], >> the source message seems as: >> >> * Follow the on-screen directions from that point on. You can find >> more information on $waystogiveurl PayPal's page$ways2giveclose. >> >> Should these $waystogiveurl and $ways2giveclose be used as brackets, >> like composing [[PayPal's page]]? >> >> 2: >> In [[Fundraising_2012/Translation/Donor_information_pages/2f]], >> βIn the meantime, please look at the following URL for other options >> that may be available to you at this time:[[Ways to Give/en|other ways >> to give]].β >> >> has changed into >> >> β In the meantime, please look at the following URL for other options >> that may be available to you at this time: '''Ways to give'''.β >> >> recently (link removed). Will '''Ways to give''' not be linked when >> released? >> Some languages (including Japanese) do not have colons and a notation >> to place noun (clause) after that. So I considered to incorporate >> '''Ways to give''' >> into the sentence before, if it is not a link (or even it is). >> I would like to know why this change has been made, and where the actual >> "the following URL" will be. >> >> 3: >> In [[Landing Page and Banner messages]], the message 4b says "150 staffs", >> while the message "140 employees". The fact may be in between 140 and >> 150 or so :) >> but readers may regard it inconsistent, if both are read. >> >> Bests, >> >> --OTA Takashi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Translators-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > > > > > -- > -- > > Joseph Seddon > > Fundraiser Translation Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
