I see, I am impressed by the WMF's efforts for translaton work of this election. However, I think there should be a public announcement for translators who signed in Special:TranslatorSignUp, or maybe it has been mentioned in a public site but I have missed. :)
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy (< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trần_Nguyễn_Minh_Huy>) Supporter, Vietnames Wikimedia Projects 2015-05-02 21:37 GMT+07:00 James Alexander <[email protected]>: > Just to clarify: The reason they wanted it as translated as possible is to > make it easier for more, non English speaking, communities to participate > in the election in their native language and understand what's happening. > > James Alexander > Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur > > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:33 AM, James Alexander <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Minata Hatsune <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I am a translator working on Vietnamese language. I was surprised to see >>> the translation in the two links above is done correctly (although I've >>> edited a bit for more understandable). It's not like someone has used >>> Google Translate or other machine translation tools. >>> >>> The translator is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varnent. I am >>> curious whether he also understands this language? Despite his personal >>> page did not show it. I also have the same questions with the Vietnamese >>> translation of Call for candidates >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_for_candidates/vi>. >>> It was done by a staff of WMF (Azariv), and I don't think he could >>> understand a strange language such as Vietnamese. I am active in many >>> Wikimedia projects in Vietnamese, but had never seen him before. >>> >> >> Hi Minata, >> >> The board had as one of it's goals this year to have as much translated >> as possible for the board and FDC Elections (especially the board >> elections) because of that they asked me to pay for some professional >> translations for some targeted languages (mostly popular languages in >> different areas of the world, my boss Philippe picked them earlier for the >> strategy consultation a couple months ago) and Vietnamese was one of them. >> >> To be honest I've found community members make the best translations >> (especially given that some words are Wikimedia specific) but given the >> large amount of text and the short time schedule the elections have we >> wanted to ensure we'd get some translations in on time and allow community >> members to do the quick fixes that make it more understandable and that >> much better. Both Alex (Azariv) and Varnent were plugging those paid >> translations in. >> >> James Alexander >> Community Advocacy >> Wikimedia Foundation >> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > >
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