Project:VisualEditor/2015 Translathon

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the VISUALEDITOR TRANSLATION SPRINT, online and at WIKIMANIA MEXICO CITY.

The translathon is now over. Thanks to all the participants! Your barnstars will be delivered ASAP. We also decided to give more prizes than announced. Congratulations to:

I'll contact you soon via email about receiving your prize. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 19:54, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Help translate interface message and documentation pages for VisualEditor into your language

Join the sprint

When: During Wikimania's week in July - Wednesday 15 to Sunday 19 included (CDT).
Where

Online! Not in Mexico City? It doesn't matter. You can participate wherever you are.
In Workplace 1 - Don Américo on July 16th at 4:00 p.m (CDT) at the conference venue. Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Liaisons for VisualEditor if you need help getting started with translations or would just like to spend time with other fellow translators!

What

This is an invitation to start or improve translations for VisualEditor-related messages into your language.

Interface messages live at translatewiki.net. Please see to learn how to get started here. Please note: unified login won't work here, so you'll need to create a new, free account here if you don't have one yet. We strongly recommend doing so before the translathon begins, because the account needs to be manually approved.
Documentation pages are available at mediawiki.org. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Translation_example if you're not familiar with Extension:Translate.

Resources (work in progress)

Here is the list of the pages you can work on, ordered by priority (#1 = top priority):

Interface messages on translatewiki.net
User guide on MediaWiki
VE portal on MediaWiki
Introduction to TemplateData
Help about TemplateData
VE FAQ
VE as the main editor
Special characters
Citation tool
Citoid/Enabling Citoid on your wiki

How: Participate

Sign up in the Participants section below so that your contributions can be checked: you'll earn an "Interlingual Barnstar"! Top translators will also be mentioned in the next issue of the VisualEditor global newsletter, and the 3 most active ones may get a prize from the Wikimedia Store (a short-sleeve shirt, or other items for the same value). New translations (that is, those for messages available in the "Untranslated" tab of the translation program) and updated translations (those for messages available in the "Outdated" tab) will be counted.
Click on any of the links above and start translating by clicking on the Translate to... dropdown link on the top right of the page. If you have created your account on translatewiki.net recently, let us know: we may need to validate it.
Please don't start early! Messages and pages are being updated and added and may change drastically before the translathon starts, and translations before then will not be counted towards the prize. :)

Need help?

See how to get started and the FAQ page on this wiki.
Check the TranslationCentral on mediawiki.org for details.
Look for Elitre or Trizek on IRC (#wikimania, #mediawiki-visualeditor, #mediawiki-i18n ...).
If you're in Mexico City, come and visit the Community Liaison table in the Community Engagement Department booth in the Community Village from Friday to Sunday.

Participants

add language(s) you're translating to (in alphabetical order) and your name here! If you use a different username on translatewiki.net and mediawiki.org, please list both of them.

Albanian - User:techlik
Arabic - User:tarawneh
Armenian - User:Vahe Gharakhanyan
Assamese - Dibya Dutta (দিব্য দত্ত on Mediawiki.org)
Asturian - User:Xuacu
Azerbaijani - User:Cekli829
Bahasa Melayu - User:Karmadunya9- (karmadunya90 on Mediawiki.org)
Basque - User: Sator (User:Xabier Cañas on Mediawiki.org)
Belarusan (Taraškievica) - Renessaince
Bengali - Aftabuzzaman, Hasive
Brazilian Portuguese - User:Rodrigo Padula, User:TheEduGobi (Eduardogobi on Mediawiki.org) & User:TheGabrielZaum (GSZaum on Mediawiki.org)
Breton - Ash Crow (talk)
Catalan - User:F3RaN & User:Kippelboy & User:Arnaugir, User:Fitoschido
Central Kurdish - Pirehelokan (talk) 20:13, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Doteli - User:Janak Bhatta, Ramesh Singh Bohara
Dutch - Siebrand, Ad Huikeshoven
Esperanto - Kvardek du desde Mexico
Finnish - user:Stryn & User:McSalama
French - User: Wladek92 & Ash Crow (talk) & Harmonia Amanda & hpetit
Galician - User:Toliño
Georgian - user:David1010
German - Sebastian Wallroth (talk)
Gujarati - Dhaval (ધવલ) (talk)
Greek - User:Stam.nikos, Dead3y3 (talk)
Hebrew - User: Gregra
Hindi - User:Param Mudgal & User:Sid4translate, user:संजीव कुमार, user:आशीष भटनागर
Hungarian - Kis Hajnalka
Indonesian - User:Jadinegara, User:Kenrick95
Italian - User:Fringio
Japanese -- User:Takot - will be at Wikimania Mexico hackathon!
Javanese - User:Jadinegara
Kannada - User:pavanaja
Lithuanian - User:Arturkozlov
Luxembourgish -User:Robby
Maithili - User:Tulsi Bhagat, User:बिप्लब आनन्द Bijay Chaurasia, User:njha61@ translatewiki
Marathi - User:Sau6402 & User:Sid4translate
Nepali - User:बिप्लब आनन्द, User:Tulsi Bhagat Bijay Chaurasia
Norwegian bokmål - User:Kingu
Oriya - User:Jnanaranjan Sahu (Jnanaranjan sahu on Mediawiki.org])
Persian - user:MRG90, user:الناز, Darafsh
Piemontèis - User:Dragonòt
Polish - User:Notwist, Tar Lócesilion
Portuguese - User:Vitorvicentevalente, User:MokaAkashiyaPT
Punjabi - Satdeep Gill
Ripuarian - Purodha Blissenbach (talk)
Russian - User:Putnik
Sakha - User:HalanTul
Scots (for my sins) - User:Foxj
Simplified Chinese - User:Imyzc
Sinhala - User:පසිඳු_කාවින්ද & User:Dprabhath
Slovenian - User:Pinky sl
Slovak - User:Kusavica
Spanish - Wilfredor, User:Fitoschido, MadriCR, Ryo567, Miguel-1.mx, User:rafael.minuesa
Swedish - User:Warrakkk
Tagalog - User:Jewel457
Tamil - User:Info-farmer
Traditional Chinese - User:Cwlin0416, User:TaqPol
Turkish - User:Incelemeelemani, user:rapsar
Ukrainian - User:Piramidion, user:Ата
Urdu - User:Muhammad Shuaib (user:محمد شعیب on mediawiki.org]]
Vietnamese - User:Anh88 @ translatewiki 06:05, July 16, 2015 (UTC)
Yiddish - User:פוילישער@ translatewiki ; User:Redaktor @ mediawiki

Statistics

Summary

For interface messages at translatewiki.net, we estimate the initiative affected 42 languages: the average progress in translations was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular,

Sakha went from 12.2% to 94.2%;

Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%;

Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%;

Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%.

Also, while 1.7% of the messages was marked as outdated before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% after (-0,9%).

For documentation messages at mediawiki.org, we estimate the initiative affected 24 languages: the average progress in translations was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). Notable achievements for

Armenian, which went from 1% to 99%;

Swedish, from 21% to 99%;

and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%.

Outdated translations were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% after (-3,6%).

Graphs (interface messages only)

Note that no impact was expected on the new users' count, while having reviewers and reviews for existing translations wasn't even a goal for this initiative.

Links

Credits

Community Liaisons would like to thank the staff at translatewiki.net, User:Siebrand in particular, for their support! Translators are welcome at his Wikimania session, Wikimedia Translation Sprint scheduled for Friday 17th at 2:30pm in Room G.