Meta:Requests for translation adminship/EricaAzzellini
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Hi. I am currently responsible for communications at GLAM WikiCon 2025 and kindly request translation adminship on Meta to facilitate timely updates of the page, ensuring diverse audiences receive accurate and up-to-date information about the event.
My home wiki is PT-WP, I am an active member of Wikimedia Brasil, and I participate in various organizational initiatives within the movement.
To demonstrate my familiarity and competence with the Translate extension, I have prepared a fully marked-up, translation-ready version of the GLAM Wiki 2025 FAQ page in my sandbox. In this example, I applied proper translation unit markers, used < translate > tags, and organized the content with hidden toggles, following official guidelines.
Beyond this conference-related content, I am also willing to assist with reviewing and maintaining other translation pages if granted the necessary permissions.
Thank you for considering my request. --EricaAzzellini (talk) 19:28, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for preparing an example! It shows that you still have to learn (see the documentation, which is now also linked when editing your sandbox):
- You shouldn’t add the translation markers yourself (unless you really know what you’re doing), the system will do it for you once the page is marked for translation.
- You made too much translatable. Complex wikitext like template calls or HTML-like elements shouldn’t be translatable, only their textual parameters.
- Headings should be separated by empty lines from the following text.
- The translation variables mostly look good, but you used the
<tvar|1>…</>syntax, which was deprecated four years ago in favor of<tvar name="1">…</tvar>. (There are probably still many pages on Meta that haven’t been updated, especially event-related ones, which haven’t been touched for years; but newly prepared pages should use the new syntax, which is more compatible with VisualEditor and the new wikitext parser.)
- These are relatively small things, so I’m hopeful you’ll learn them right in time for the WikiCon. (However, they make the translator and reader experience much worse, so you should get them right, even if you’re in a hurry.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:50, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, @Tacsipacsi. Thank you for your detailed feedback. I'm learning a lot with this exercise. I made some changes in my sandbox to improve it. Can you please check if everything is ok now? Thanks! EricaAzzellini (talk) 14:25, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, There are still minor issues to fix in your sandbox. ☺
- If you expect your page to be localizable in right-to-left languages (such as Arabic language), you should replace
rightkeyword as template parameter with{{dirend}}(which means “direction end of line”). - There is one remaining legacy
<tvar|telegram>syntax, and one typo (<tvar| name=). - Tvar names must be unique inside a translation unit (i.e. a paragraph). They don’t require to be unique inside the whole page. Especially as you use the same tvar content: “email2”, “email3” may suggests to translator those are different emails addresses.
- For link targets, it is recommended to use digits as tvar name, because the name does not help translators to provide a better translation. For external links, if you fear the translators do not recognize wikisyntax (because simple brackets are used in natural languages), you should use a tvar name which explains the content is a link target (e.g. “URL”, “link”, or “http”). “pretix” as a tvar name is not really helpful for translators.
- There is an internal link which would be better inside a tvar. (Also, Special:MyLanguage for talk pages is useless since we avoid marking talk pages for translation.)
- For many categories, at Meta-Wiki, we add
{{translations:}}suffix to categorize each translation in respective translation categories. - You should use
{{LabelT}}which uses page language, rather than{{Label}}which uses interface language.
- If you expect your page to be localizable in right-to-left languages (such as Arabic language), you should replace
- Regards, -- Pols12 (talk) 16:53, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, @Pols12. Thank you for the review! I made the requested changes to the page. I hope everything is in order now. Best, EricaAzzellini (talk) 12:20, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the edits! I just made some adjustments:
- I guess Hidden_begin template does not support “dirend” value: it probably only supports “right” or “left”. The template
{{dirend}}returns “right” for LTR languages, and “left” for RTL language. - Talk pages don’t need Special:MyLanguage, but we still can use tvar so the translation is much easy.
- I also used “URL” name for telegram URL. We can use the same tvar name several times in the page, even for different values, as soon as it is not in the same unit (paragraph). By the way, I replaced Wikivoyage link with an interwiki prefix (they don’t display as external links with arrow icon).
- I guess Hidden_begin template does not support “dirend” value: it probably only supports “right” or “left”. The template
- I gladly
Support your translation adminship. 🙂 -- Pols12 (talk) 16:52, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the edits! I just made some adjustments:
- Hi, @Pols12. Thank you for the review! I made the requested changes to the page. I hope everything is in order now. Best, EricaAzzellini (talk) 12:20, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, There are still minor issues to fix in your sandbox. ☺
- Hi, @Tacsipacsi. Thank you for your detailed feedback. I'm learning a lot with this exercise. I made some changes in my sandbox to improve it. Can you please check if everything is ok now? Thanks! EricaAzzellini (talk) 14:25, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 06:41, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support I always appreciate if people are open to feedback and improve their skills --Ameisenigel (talk) 21:01, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support – DreamRimmer ■ 12:45, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support --V0lkanic (talk) 21:31, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
Done --M/ (talk) 09:25, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
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