As a matter of principle, I wholeheartedly agree. But principles only take you so far, and cost a great deal. I don't see much wrong with the communities translating reports, rather than have the WMF spend my donated money on translators.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Виктория <[email protected]> wrote: > I second this on behalf of Russian-speaking users. > > Victoria > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Juergen Fenn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hallo Tilman, >> >> Am 13.04.2012 um 13:01 schrieb [email protected]: >> > >> > please find below the WMF report for March 2012, in plain text. >> >> Thanks for publishing the new report. >> >> > Since a few months, we have been publishing a separate "Highlights" >> > summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to >> > stay updated, by providing a translation: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2012 >> > Many thanks to those who translated last month's "Highlights" into >> > Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch and >> > (partially) Arabic. >> >> We have discussed this on the German Chapter's list recently. Most of >> those taking part in the discussion opined the Wikimedia Foundation provide >> translations of its documents into the most important languages. We touched >> upon the subject as WCA announced it will publish its reports in several >> languages. Translations should not be left to the community. It is not up >> to the community to get news from the Foundation, but it is rather up to >> the Foundation to get its message across to the community. Please note that >> only a minority of Wikipedians are able to understand your documents >> published in English. I would be quite grateful if we please could change >> this. >> >> Regards, >> Jürgen. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
