Hi there.
I have translated the guideline to Japanese. What I have noticed during the
translation is that while some sections like "Wikimedia terminology" are
useful in clarifying the variety of terms that causes confusion, the
"Formatting" section does not have much use outside of English. For
example, we do not separate sentences with spaces in Chinese, nor do we
care about serial commas in Japanese; quotation marks have lots of variety
across languages, as stated in [[w:en:Quotation mark]]. Therefore, in my
opinion, we should either state clearly that this document only applies to
English, or add guidelines for other languages.
However, I still appreciate the work on making the communications clear -
thank you very much for that.
Anthony
(Wikimedia user name: ネイ / transliteration: Ney)
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello amazing translators!
The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has over the past
several months gathered together information on communicating about the
Foundation and our work. We also made some improvements to that
information, based in part on feedback provided by some of you over the
years.
Earlier this week, I posted this information on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Communicating_
about_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
While we would, of course, welcome any translations - I am primarily
interested in your thoughts on how what is provided in these guidelines
will work across languages. It would also be helpful for us to know if
there are areas that would be helpful to develop specific translation
information or guidelines for.
We consider these guidelines to be a "living document" meaning that we
anticipate it receiving regular updates and improvements. So your feedback
will help us form the next round of updates. :)
Thank you in advance for any feedback you may have. You can either email
me directly, post them here, or on the talk page.
-greg
--
Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org
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