Re: [WikiNL-l] Ambassadors needed for Wikimedia's first press release

Voor het ambassadeurschap heb ik me maar weer aangeboden. De vertaling moet
nog wel gebeuren.

Andre Engels


On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Daniel Mayer wrote:

> Unfortunately Jimbo doesn't speak every language that Wikipedia is in. What is
> needed, are people who are fluent in both English and another language to act
> as intermediaries between Jimbo and foreign language (to Jimbo) press
> services.
>
> It would be very unfortunate and embarrassing for all involved if Jimbo
> answered his phone and couldn't understand the reporter at the other end and
> they could not understand him. So please help by placing your name at
> http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia's_first_press_release#Ambassadors_needed
>
> We are also still looking for more translators. Polish, Swedish, Danish, and
> Dutch are specifically mentioned and linked to in the press release, but so
> far nobody has volunteered to translate the press release into those
> languages. I think that doing so would be a great service to especially those
> Wikipedia versions. Of course, this press release is mainly about the whole
> project, so all versions are encouraged to translate the press release and
> distribute it when the time comes.