Yeah sadly, however I'll send out another mass notice for the main translations page (I sent out one for elections early on a couple weeks ago too).
James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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