[Licom-l] Translation

Sat Mar 21 20:41:30 UTC 2009

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Translation
>
> I need some confirmation on which parts we are ready to translate (and
> which pages are *not* going to need translation).  Also, I want to
> point out now that we should do the actual vote *interface* on
> betawiki so there's no confusion later down the line. :-)

I think most things look pretty good, though I plan to take another
read through all the pages this afternoon just in case.  I will note
that the vote header page will need more love, especially if we are
moving in the direction of Licensing_update/Introduction as a global
header (i.e. having it replace the similar text at
Licensing_update/vote-header) which seems to be the intent.  Assuming
we do that, we would still need a set of voting options to translate.

My list of pages that we should probably ultimately give a full
translation push are:

Licensing update
Licensing update/Introduction
Licensing update/Centralnotice
Licensing update/License comparison
Licensing update/Questions and Answers

Plus some version of Licensing update/vote-header, which may need to
be reduced to just a voting interface or otherwise handled
differently, per above.

If we intend to use it on the translated pages, we probably will want
to translate Template:LU as well.

Those pages will directly impact the vote itself.

Translating Licensing update/Timeline is probably optional and I would
lean against it.  It is interesting, but the timing details for
implementation would seem unlikely to significantly influence a
person's vote.  Plus there is a risk that some of the implementation
dates may continue to change.  More important is probably to fix the
dates for the vote and include them in one or more of the other
translated pages if they aren't there already.

I would additionally suggest we don't translate

Licensing update/Vote-specs
Licensing update/Translation
Licensing update/Committee

As these are largely internal, process oriented pages.  The committee
page, like the timeline, may be semi-interesting to the larger world,
but it probably doesn't necessarily need to exist in dozens of
languages.  I would note that other Wikimedia committee pages seem to
be mostly English only.

Are there any pages I overlooked?

-Robert Rohde