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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor email response
You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to Spanish on Meta. A new page, Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor email response is available for translation. Please translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2012-08-15.
I just want to thank you for volunteering and to say how appreciative I am of the work translator do, in particular with the fundraiser. It is nothing short of vital.
Our first big test of the year is going to be dedicated to the Spanish language and so over the coming days you'll receive a number of translation requests. For the moment the goal is insuring that all donor communications are fully translated. These quick steps will help get you started:
- Click on the "translate to Spanish" link above
- Double click the message you want to translate
- Type your translation, click save and repeat.
The Fundraising team are also looking for local testers and proofreaders in the spanish language to help us throughout the year.
If you would be interested in helping us please email me (jseddon at wikimedia.org), post on my meta talk page [1] or post on the talk page of the fundraiser translation hub [2]. Feel free to post any questions, comments or feedback about the new translation extension on the same talk page as well [2].
You should receive one more notification after this. I will try and keep the notification traffic down as best I can.
Thank you!
Meta translation administrators, 11:25, 1 August 2012 (UTC)Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor information pages
You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to Spanish on Meta. A new page, Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor information pages is available for translation. Please translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2012-08-15.
Just sending the second page in preparation for the Spanish fundraising test
As always if you have any questions, comments or feedback please email me (jseddon at wikimedia.org), post on my meta talk page [1] or post on the talk page of the fundraiser translation hub [2].
Thank you!
Meta translation administrators, 11:28, 1 August 2012 (UTC)Help Project newsletter : Issue 3
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Welcome to the (slightly delayed) third issue of the Help Project newsletter. The past month has once again been a busy one for my fellowship. The full results and conclusions from the extensive user survey on help pages are now available, and make interesting reading. These do confirm a number of our suspicions about Wikipedia help, and suggest that the current plan for the remainder of the fellowship is a sound approach. Also last month I was fortunate enough to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, where I gave a presentation about help pages and the aforementioned survey results. You can find the slides from this on Commons. Wikimania was also a great opportunity for many discussions with staff and community members, and these brought up some interesting ideas which I hope to follow up on. One of the things much discussed was the planned tutorial pages. I've been working on a new design for them which can be seen at User:The wub/sandbox/1, please let me know what you think (especially if you spot any bugs!). Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Page Triage newsletter
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).
The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.
I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:04, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 August 2012
- News and notes: FDC portal launched
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
- Featured content: Casliber's words take root
- Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
Translation notification: Mobile Projects/WLM App Fact Sheet
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The priority of this page is medium. The deadline for translating this page is 2012-08-13.
Thank you!
Meta translation administrators, 10:35, 8 August 2012 (UTC)New Pages newsletter
Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:39, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 August 2012
- Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
- Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration
- Featured content: On the road again
- Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit
- WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution
- Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship
Deleted EyePACS Page
Hello,
The article I created today titled "EyePACS" was deleted because of a speedy deletion. I was wondering if you could userfy the page or email a copy of the page to me. The page was cited for copyright violation, but I own the webpage that the copyright "infringement" was referring to. Thanks for your help.
SanJimKat (talk) 03:22, 18 August 2012 (UTC)SanJimKat
Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Ways to give
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The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2012-08-21.
Thank you!
Meta translation administrators, 01:37, 20 August 2012 (UTC)Translation notification: Research:Wikipedia Editor Survey August 2012/Questions
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Meta translation administrators, 10:15, 20 August 2012 (UTC)Translation notification: Research:Wikipedia Editor Survey August 2012/Questions
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The priority of this page is high.
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Meta translation administrators, 10:20, 20 August 2012 (UTC)Translation notification: Research:Wikipedia Editor Survey August 2012/Questions
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The priority of this page is high.
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Meta translation administrators, 10:20, 20 August 2012 (UTC)The Signpost: 20 August 2012
- In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
- Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
- Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension
- WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea
PC Software, etc
Hi THO, just directing your attention to this section of the current discussion of PC. It seems likely that the devs cannot have PC ready to go on the schedule we originally set, and I'd like to see what you, DQ, Blade, and James Forrester think about possible ways to work with that restriction. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 15:26, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 August 2012
- News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
- Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?
- Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
- WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who