On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's good to see an email appeal sent to editors to translate articles, > although a direct email appeal to generally add information to the relevant > Wikipedia might be better (we don't just want translators, we also want new > content!). > I'm just talking here as someone that volunteered in a first test of this feature. In that case I was asked whether I had edited Spanish Wikipedia (which I had) and then got a few recommendations for articles that could be translated from English to Spanish using the Content Translator. My edits to es.wiki are quite thematic, and the recommendations I got were very interesting to me, as an editor and as a reader. I guess a problem with this mailing (among others) is that the threshold should be more restrictive, for instances filtering out editors that never added whole sentences or paragraphs of text, avoiding the occasional editors of wrong data, images, etc, that might not know the language itself. About why focusing on translations (or, to be more precise, Content Translator), I think it is a campaign that makes sense. Most registered editors don't know about Content Translator and/or wouldn't have a clear idea of what articles to translate. In this sense, the email (that could be a message in Talk pages indeed) is very useful, even for someone like me who was well aware of Content Translator and had tried in some articles. Of course, this shouldn't stop other types of recommendations to edit away. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
