I fully agree this year's team does a good job and get best results, but in regard of internationalization and localizability, I'm saddened not to agree this year's one is the best managed. Some of my concerns I have explained on internal-l, and it caused confusions to some non English aspirant donors (some mailed their perplexions to otrs).
Those confusions have been caused by - strong anglocentric system messages like "First" and "Last" names - some translations were literal and couldn't kept the original intention. - removal of manual lang selector: if a donor is eventually in a foreign country with a national chapter, they have no way to get the landing page in their mother tongue. Not every foreign resident is fluent in the lang of their residence. I don't oppose the general observation this year's fundraising is well done, but it shouldn't be the same to ignore linguistic minority, nor to abandon of effort to keep our multiligualisation which we at the global Wikimedia community have pursued for this decade. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > The $5M over 15 days is very good news. > > I think it is fair to say that this appears to be the best managed > fundraiser to date. It has exhibited both high production values and > a high level of awareness about how to draw in the small-scale donors > that are the backbone of the annual fundraiser. In addition, the > communication with the community about the fundraiser seems to have > improved over previous years. > > So great work guys. Keep it up. > > -Robert Rohde > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Przykuta <przyk...@o2.pl> wrote: >> :] >> >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics >> >> and news >> >> http://pl.wikinews.org/wiki/Fundacja_Wikimedia_zebra%C5%82a_5_milion%C3%B3w_dolar%C3%B3w_w_ci%C4%85gu_2_tygodni >> >> We could expect >20M this year... ;) >> >> best regards >> >> przykuta >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
