On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 25.09.2015 21:59, Purodha Blissenbach wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> There will be a new beta feature that ... >>> >>> under the heading 'Changes this week' is a contradiction. Either it >>> is there since this week, or it will be there in the future but not >>> this week. >>> > > Hi, > I wrote the "new beta feature" line with the future tense, to match the > recurring "The new version of MediaWiki will be on [...]" item above. This > seemed logical to me, because when the message is delivered on Monday the > feature will not yet be available, but will become available during the week > (Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday) as the deployments roll out to each group of > wikis. I think that is the intended use of that section, but possibly I've > misunderstood? > Hmmm, I've now looked through the last few issues, and I see a slight mix of > present and future tense in the "Changes this week" section (e.g #34 says > "You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category"), > but mostly present tense. I agree this is worth clarifying/standardizing in > future issues. > HTH, Quiddity
I've previously mainly been using "now" but changed everything under "changes this week" to the future tense because there has been some confusion: when it's delivered on the Monday, editors have gone looking for a certain feature or change they have been promised in the present tense, only to find it hasn't been deployed yet and won't be until e.g. Thursday. //Johan Jönsson -- _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
