> Is it the case that the translation ready strings with the word > "media" are not accompanied by comments which would aid the translator > to select the best specific word from a candidate list?
It's not really about translation. It's about English as well. In translation it's usually clear how to translate this word without a lot of context explanation, and in the languages that I know, it's translated as "media" transliterated to that alphabet. The problem is that "media" is (or at least appears to me to be) a technical engineering term that is not understood well by all users of Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites, whereas "pictures", "videos" and "sound recording" are unambiguous and don't need any explanation. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-10-22 17:42 GMT+03:00 sankarshan <foss.mailingli...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > Every time I translate messages that have > > the word "media" in them, I think that a lot of users will not actually > > understand them, and that if I would stand next to them, I'd have to > > explain what that is. > > Is it the case that the translation ready strings with the word > "media" are not accompanied by comments which would aid the translator > to select the best specific word from a candidate list? > > > -- > sankarshan mukhopadhyay > <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
