On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Send Translators-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Translators-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 2008 board election translations: start (Maria Fanucchi) > 2. Re: 2008 board election translations: start (Kong Soon Lim) > 3. Call for translation: WMF website housekeeping - Phase 3 > begins! (Aphaia) > 4. [Fwd: WMF wiki updates] (Cary Bass) > 5. Re: 2008 board election translations: start (Maria Fanucchi) > 6. Re: [Fwd: WMF wiki updates] (Casey Brown) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:00:54 -0300 > From: "Maria Fanucchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Translators-l] 2008 board election translations: start > To: "Wikimedia Translators" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > This is just a short announcement to say that the translation of the 2008 > board election pages can now start: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation > If you didn't volunteer when I was in recruitment mode weeks ago and would > like to do so, please e-mail me and I'll put you in contact with other > volunteers working in your language, if there are any. I would prefer no one > wing it entirely solo (two heads are better than one, and if someone is > absent for a while the other one can take over - you never know, after all). > Please don't hesitate to e-mail me if the translation system is confusing > and/or you find a bug. We think the current system is simple and easily > understandable at a glance (three colors, three stages), though, so > hopefully you will too, though we're open to suggestions. > Cheers and happy editing, > --Maria > [[User:Arria Belli]] > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/attachments/20080428/f1c9add7/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:39:26 +0800 (SGT) > From: Kong Soon Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Translators-l] 2008 board election translations: start > To: Wikimedia Translators <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Greetings and hi, > > I would like to volunteer to help in the translating works in Wikipedia. I > am able to translate both Malay (ms) and English (en) language. I'm not too > sure what should I do next. > > Anyway, thanks a lot for your help in advance and best regards, > > Lim Kong Soon > [[User:Diagramma Della Verita]] > > ----------------------------------------------------You can help Wikimedia > change the world! > > 24358 People have donated. Visit > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising for more details. > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Maria Fanucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Wikimedia Translators <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 28 April 2008 8:00:54 > Subject: [Translators-l] 2008 board election translations: start > > This is just a short announcement to say that the translation of the 2008 > board election pages can now > start: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation > If you didn't volunteer when I was in recruitment mode weeks ago and would > like to do so, please e-mail me and I'll put you in contact with other > volunteers working in your language, if there are any. I would prefer no one > wing it entirely solo (two heads are better than one, and if someone is > absent for a while the other one can take over - you never know, after all). > Please don't hesitate to e-mail me if the translation system is > confusing and/or you find a bug. We think the current system is simple > and easily understandable at a glance (three colors, three stages), > though, so hopefully you will too, though we're open to suggestions. > Cheers and happy editing, > --Maria > [[User:Arria Belli]] > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Search, browse and book your hotels and flights through Yahoo! Travel. > http://sg.travel.yahoo.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/attachments/20080428/be99924f/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:07:36 +0900 > From: Aphaia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Translators-l] Call for translation: WMF website > housekeeping - Phase 3 begins! > To: "Wikimedia Translators" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello, > Seasons greetings > > Transcom has begun a spring house keeping drive on Wikimedia > Foundation website [1]. We happily have seen many productive responses > and would like to thank you all who have offered hands. > > Now we would like to appreciate specially on that: > * we have now a complete set of soft redirect message. [2] > * we have many updated main page of WMF [2a], either completely > (including French) or partly (including Italian and Polish). > * also we see many requested translation on-going and close to > completion (including Spanish) > > We internally ended the phase 2, that is, determine outdated and > abandoned pages (from April 8). Without hearing any report there is > translation on-going but done outside of wiki, I made up two criteria > as proposals: > - if a page was last edited until August 2007 or earlier, it will be > blanked and turned into soft redirect without exception, unless it is > the Main Page (Main Page will be turned into a hard redirect to > English page) > - if a page was last edited in August 2007 or later, the content will > stay but with {{update needed)). > > I would like to discuss those criteria with you all, but it wouldn't > be a problem to turn the 2004 page into a redirect, so I think we will > be able to start the pages picked up from [[special:Oldpages]]. I > expect to see the consensus based conclusion within a week. > > Now, let us start the third phase. And as said, I'd love to start is > as soon as possible. > #3. Turning those outdated and abandoned pages into soft redirects. > Soft redirects will be template messages with a link to another > language version or more. We are thinking English versions, unless the > other language is recommended. We now have a template for this > purpose, that is, {{updeed needed}} [2]. > > Anyone who has wmf wiki account is welcome to help this out. We'll > upload the {{updeed needed}} to the site, if not yet. > > Cbrown1023 made a list of outdated pages [3], it will be a good start > to pick the page, specially you are interested in updating, rather > than turning them into redirect. For picking too old pages, it would > be easier to start from [[Special:Oldpage]]. > > The next and last phase will be: > #4. Final review (May 21) > There would be the pages which are not ready on April 8 but ongoing > or just said to be ready in days. If no work is done at all by this > date, those pages will also be turned into redirect. > > Workspace for translation of each page may be found through > [[meta:Translation requests]] (aka [[m:TR]]). [4] > > Questions and suggestions are welcome as always. You are welcome to > ask a question on this list, [[m:Meta talk:Babylon]] [5] or IRC > channel #wikimedia-translation. For general guidance about translation > on meta, [[m:Translation]] will be helpful. [6] > > Happy translation! > > > [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org > [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/update_needed/en > [2a] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Home > [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Cbrown1023/Updates#Translations > [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TR > [5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta_talk:Babylon > [6] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation > > -- > KIZU Naoko > http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) > Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:07:58 -0700 > From: Cary Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Translators-l] [Fwd: WMF wiki updates] > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have created [[MediaWiki:Blogtext]] and [[MediaWiki:Blog-url]] to the > WMF wiki. Shall I wait until [[MediaWiki:Blogtext]] is translated into > multiple languages before I add this to the places where Jay is asking > me to? > > Cary > > - -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: WMF wiki updates > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:02:14 -0700 > From: Jay Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: Wikimedia Foundation > To: Cary Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cary, when you get a chance please update the WMF wiki tool system. > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home > > We still need a 'Wikimedia blog' link on the left-hand menu under 'about > wikimedia' > > And at the very bottom of the page, in the bar with the 'A wikimedia > project' > logo, please also add a "Wikimedia blog" link between the "About Wikimedia > Foundation" and "Disclaimers" link. > > Thanks! > > - -- > Jay Walsh > Head of Communications > WikimediaFoundation.org > +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 > > - -- > Cary Bass > Volunteer Coordinator > > Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia > Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 > Fax: 415.882.0495 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkgWBG4ACgkQyQg4JSymDYkRpgCdFTSQdRcSrt2UMrdrodE7Wke9 > gCAAoMvwAmVPK4SJQm2ycBV4deK38KVP > =jZ9I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:01:41 -0300 > From: "Maria Fanucchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Translators-l] 2008 board election translations: start > To: "Wikimedia Translators" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thanks for your interest translating the board elections pages. :-) > Hmmm, it looks like no other Bahasa Melayu speakers have volunteered to > translate the board election pages, so you'll have to do the work alone > (though if you can find other translators willing to help, they'd be very > welcome as well, because even just proofreading speeds up the process of > publication considerably). The main translation page for the board elections > is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation > Please don't hesitate to write to me again if needed. > --Maria > [[User:Arria Belli]] > > On 4/28/08, Kong Soon Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings and hi, > > > > I would like to volunteer to help in the translating works in Wikipedia. I > > am able to translate both Malay (ms) and English (en) language. I'm not too > > sure what should I do next. > > > > Anyway, thanks a lot for your help in advance and best regards, > > > > Lim Kong Soon > > [[User:Diagramma Della Verita]] > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > You can help Wikimedia change the world! > > > > 24358 People have donated. Visit > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising for more details. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Maria Fanucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Wikimedia Translators <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, 28 April 2008 8:00:54 > > Subject: [Translators-l] 2008 board election translations: start > > > > This is just a short announcement to say that the translation of the 2008 > > board election pages can now start: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation > > If you didn't volunteer when I was in recruitment mode weeks ago and would > > like to do so, please e-mail me and I'll put you in contact with other > > volunteers working in your language, if there are any. I would prefer no > one > > wing it entirely solo (two heads are better than one, and if someone is > > absent for a while the other one can take over - you never know, after > all). > > Please don't hesitate to e-mail me if the translation system is confusing > > and/or you find a bug. We think the current system is simple and easily > > understandable at a glance (three colors, three stages), though, so > > hopefully you will too, though we're open to suggestions. > > Cheers and happy editing, > > --Maria > > [[User:Arria Belli]] > > > > ------------------------------ > > Tired of visiting multiple sites for showtimes? > > Yahoo! > Movies<http://sg.rd.yahoo.com/movies/*http://sg.movies.yahoo.com/Showtimes/cinemas/>is > all you need > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Translators-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/attachments/20080428/86c312ae/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:53:52 -0400 > From: "Casey Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Translators-l] [Fwd: WMF wiki updates] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Wikimedia Translators" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Nope, because we don't translate sidebar elements on the Wikimedia > Foundation wiki (we probably should.... but that's for another day ;-) > ). > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Cary Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I have created [[MediaWiki:Blogtext]] and [[MediaWiki:Blog-url]] to the > > WMF wiki. Shall I wait until [[MediaWiki:Blogtext]] is translated into > > multiple languages before I add this to the places where Jay is asking > > me to? > > > > Cary > > > > - -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: WMF wiki updates > > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:02:14 -0700 > > From: Jay Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Organization: Wikimedia Foundation > > To: Cary Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Cary, when you get a chance please update the WMF wiki tool system. > > > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home > > > > We still need a 'Wikimedia blog' link on the left-hand menu under 'about > > wikimedia' > > > > And at the very bottom of the page, in the bar with the 'A wikimedia > > project' > > logo, please also add a "Wikimedia blog" link between the "About Wikimedia > > Foundation" and "Disclaimers" link. > > > > Thanks! > > > > - -- > > Jay Walsh > > Head of Communications > > WikimediaFoundation.org > > +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 > > > > - -- > > Cary Bass > > Volunteer Coordinator > > > > Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia > > Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 > > Fax: 415.882.0495 > > > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkgWBG4ACgkQyQg4JSymDYkRpgCdFTSQdRcSrt2UMrdrodE7Wke9 > > gCAAoMvwAmVPK4SJQm2ycBV4deK38KVP > > =jZ9I > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Translators-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > > > > > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 > > --- > Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. 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