On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. :)
Good point, but it's currently not possible technically to send such a translation notifications for banner translations (only for page translations): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58187 > > 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. 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
