Biographies of living people translation request

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Board elections candidacy period time change

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding  
submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not  
seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month.  Because of the  
potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and  
active election, the election committee has determined that:

	-  Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59 (UTC)
	-  The period for questioning candidates begins immediately.   
Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized  
by the community.  The Committee hopes that the community will work to  
actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning.
	- The dates of election will not change.  The election will begin on  
28 July and end on 10 August.

Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the  
schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did  
not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be  
interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.

For the committee,
Philippe

(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the  
Wikimedia Foundation)

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Re: Board elections candidacy period time change

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Philippe
Beaudette<pbeaudette <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:
>        -  Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59 (UTC)
>        -  The period for questioning candidates begins immediately.
> Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized
> by the community.  The Committee hopes that the community will work to
> actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning.
>        - The dates of election will not change.  The election will begin on
> 28 July and end on 10 August.
>

I believe all of the translations mentioning these dates have been
updated by Markus Schulze, please check to make sure your language is
updated.

You could also look to see if any other pages need to be started or
completed, here's the main translation page:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation>

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New request: Fundraising Survey

Hey translators,

There's a new translation request, a survey by the Foundation about
fundraising to past donors and possible donors.  The request isn't too
long and is pretty important.

The languages we need it in are: cs, da, de, en (source), es, fr, it,
ja, nl, pl.  (These languages represent the countries with the highest
total donations to Wikimedia Foundation in 2008.)

The translations are needed by July 29, or as close to this date as
possible.  We can't go live until all the translations are in place
(it's not easy to add them after launch).

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2009/Survey/Translations

If you have any questions about the request, feel free to ask on this
mailing list or the request's talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2009/Survey/Translations

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Fwd: Updates to secure poll

Hmm, seems that this never got through (we tried to send it out on Monday).

There's only a few new messages and Tim says these should be the only
important, new ones.  For most languages, this means only translating
2-6 strings!

-- Casey

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From: Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette <at> wikimedia.org>
Date: July 20, 2009 11:10:14 AM CDT
To: translators-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Updates to secure poll

Greetings,

You may have noticed that there are some new status messages to be
translated for SecurePoll.  These will be critical to the election for
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.  When you have a moment,
would you mind checking translation status at
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?task=untranslated&group=ext-securepoll
and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation ?
Your support is so greatly appreciated.

____________________
Philippe Beaudette

pbeaudette <at> wikimedia.org

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: Fwd: Updates to secure poll

It is a waste of translators' time to translate the SecurePoll admin
interface to dozens of languages, which is what most of the voting-related
translation requests (including this one) are about. Only a handful of
people have access to that interface, and it is quite unlikely that any one
of them doesn't understand English. It would be nice if the voter and admin
interface of SecurePolls could be split into separate translation groups.

Casey Brown-5 wrote:
> 
> Hmm, seems that this never got through (we tried to send it out on
> Monday).
> 
> There's only a few new messages and Tim says these should be the only
> important, new ones.  For most languages, this means only translating
> 2-6 strings!
> 
> -- Casey
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette <at> wikimedia.org>
> Date: July 20, 2009 11:10:14 AM CDT
> To: translators-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Updates to secure poll
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> You may have noticed that there are some new status messages to be
> translated for SecurePoll.  These will be critical to the election for
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.  When you have a moment,
> would you mind checking translation status at
> http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?task=untranslated&group=ext-securepoll
> and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation ?
> Your support is so greatly appreciated.
> 
> ____________________
> Philippe Beaudette
> 
> pbeaudette <at> wikimedia.org
> 
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!
> 
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
> 
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[Board elections] Deadline approaching

Hey translators,

The Board elections are expected to start on June 28th, so we're
almost at our deadline for translations.  Most of the languages are
close to completion, so if you could get in those final translations
it would be great.  The page that seems to need the most work is the
"Candidates" page, which should be relatively stable from now.
Although we'll try to keep the pages updated with any changes, it
would be good if you kept an eye on the English version in case new
candidates are added or ineligible ones are removed.

Remember that the work that you do will probably be reused for the
next election and it will be viewed by all the eligible community
members, so all translation help is very much appreciated!

Here's the main translation table with statuses/links to all the
pages: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation>

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this mailing list or
the main elections talk page:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2009>

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Re: Fwd: Updates to secure poll

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tgr<gtisza <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is a waste of translators' time to translate the SecurePoll admin
> interface to dozens of languages, which is what most of the voting-related
> translation requests (including this one) are about. Only a handful of
> people have access to that interface, and it is quite unlikely that any one
> of them doesn't understand English. It would be nice if the voter and admin
> interface of SecurePolls could be split into separate translation groups.
>

Usually I'd agree with you, except that we're translating the
MediaWiki extension on betawiki so that it can be used on all
MediaWiki installations.  I'm sure there's a Hungarian wiki (for
example the Hungarian chapter) out there that might want to use this
extension, and just imagine how happy they'd be when they realize it's
already been translated by a nice person!

That being said, we might want to provide this option.  I'm CCing
Siebrand so he can tell us if this is an option.

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[Board elections] More "vote interface" messages

Hey guys,

Sorry but there were a few more more messages added that we need.  (I
know the day before the election started is not a good time to get new
requests, but there was nothing we could do.)

I tried as best as I could to reuse text/translations from previous
years, but somethings I couldn't find and others need a review.  I got
through quite a few languages, but it's 4:00 AM here so I'm going to
stop for now, if you guys could help that would be great.

The new text is "Vote interface (meta)" on the table:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation>

Here's how you can re-use other translations for these:

* title = the same as the bolded text on the main elections page (the
rules) or the header for the navigation bar

* jump text = the same as we used for the licensing update
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Header_and_jump_text>,
I already put these on all the languages we had translations for

* candidate text = can just be removed if your language doesn't
transliterate latin names, otherwise just copy from the "Candidates"
translation (make sure you have all the candidates on there though!)

* introduction = the same as used last year with board vote
<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/BoardVote/BoardVote.i18n.php?revision=51414&view=markup>,
but with a few small tweaks: we need to remove the HTML and replace it
with wiki-markup, change all 2008s to 2009s, and update "we are voting
for one person" to say "we are voting for three people"

I hope this helps you guys and sorry again for the fact that new
messages are being added so close to the deadline.

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