Wikipedia talk:Translation into English/French

Anyone Here?

There are quite a few articles that are completely translated and have not been removed. Is there a mod here to check this, or shall I start doing my part as a noob Wikipedian? If this is inappropriate/inappropriately placed please feel free to delete! If I don't get a response in a few days I'll start cleaning up the project page. Thanks! Tamarkot 04:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'm starting to clean up this page a bit now. Tamarkot 21:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rearrangement

I moved the articles from "Loose Ends" up to "Requested Articles", as they were relatively recent requests (November/December 2005). Some of the requested articles have been moved down to "Loose Ends", as there hasn't been any response from the translator; or no progress has been made since August 2005. Attention should be called to articles that haven't been touched for six months, non? Tamarkot 21:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Little Boy

I've looked at the English and French versions. It seems like the English version, although clearly adapted from the French is different in various ways. Is there still a reason to translate the :fr article or is that work finished? Modus Vivendi 17:33, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wser

Please don't replace the Wikipedia:Translators_available#French-to-English link or try to put your own translation link above it. Everybody gets a fair chance at translation and should follow the format presented. You can always put the template:User translator and template:User wikipedia/Pages needing translation into English templates on your own personal page, as well as adding yourself to the French Translators Available page. If people want translation to be done, they will normally submit it here. If you think your submission form is superior to the one presented here, please explain why in this talk section. --Cnadolski 21:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I Believe In You (single)

I removed the following request, as Leroyencyclopediabrown deleted the lyrics from the page himself, citing copyvio. Therefore, there's nothing left to translate. --Storkk 12:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I Believe In You (single)

Article: I Believe In You (single)
Worth doing because: The lyrics in the article is partly French. Needs translation so English Wikipedians can understand it.
Requested by: --Ed 14:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Status: I had a look at the article and I can't actually see anything that requires translating. If the person who requested the translation is referring to the song's French subtitle, it is simply a translation of the English title in any event. - Klingklang
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Daniel Barbier

There's an English-language stub article about the French astronomer Daniel Barbier. The article has a reference to what appears to be a biography in the french language. If possible I would like to request that the biography be used to expand the article. (In the process a French-language equivalent could also be generated, if there is interest.) Is this something I can request via this process? Thank you. — RJH (talk) 22:29, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Order of articles in "Recently Translated"

Based on the dates shown, I think some people are adding to the bottom of this list and others are adding to the top. I suggest inserting an instruction at the top telling people which to do, e.g. "Please add any new items to the bottom of this list." Is there a convention elsewhere in Wikipedia to list things in order of date or in reverse order of date? One or the other is fine as long as everybody does it the same way. --Coppertwig 19:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Procedure for removing articles from "Recently Translated" list

I'm a new user and maybe out of line here, but may I suggest that at the top of the "Recently Translated" list that instructions be added as to how/when to remove items from the list. E.g. "If a fluent English speaker (yourself or other) has checked over the article and it looks OK, and it's been here for (length of time -- 2 months?) or more, feel free to delete it from this list. If you check over the article you can leave a note (where?) with your opinion as to whether it needs more editing." --Coppertwig 19:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Helpful instructions for translators

I suggest adding to this project page some simple helpful instructions for translators, something like this: "You can create a 'sandbox' in which to work on your translation. For example if your username is Username and you're translating an article called Article you might decide to create the file 'User:Username/Article/Translation sandbox'. Just put double square brackets around that name on this page or your user page, and if you click on the resulting red link you can create the page. It will have a corresponding discussion page that you can use to list difficulties encountered during the translation. It's probably a good idea to put a link from this project page (under "Status") to your translation sandbox, so that others can collaborate especially if you stop working on it. You can create your sandbox in the Talk: namespace, but if you do that I don't think it has the helpful corresponding discussion page to go along with it. Don't create drafts in the mainspace, i.e. don't use names like "Article/Translation sandbox", but use ones starting with "User:" or "Talk:" or other namespace, so that they won't be visible as if they were finished articles before they're ready. See Wikipedia:Creating subpages --Coppertwig 02:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the liberté-->freedom translation happening?

Re tranlation of the month: I don't get it -- I clicked around a bit but can't find where the collaboration on transating liberté to freedom is supposed to be happening, or how I would know if I was duplicating someone else's work, or how I would know if the translation is already finished without reading both articles in their entirety. See my suggestion above re "helpful instructions for translators". It needs a prominent link to a translation sandbox with corresponding discussion page. And a "Status" section. --Coppertwig 02:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I leave y'all here for a few months, and this is what happens!

Kidding, mostly. Wow. This page is ridiculous. Ridiculously huge. But the number of finished translations is incredible! Also, new people have no way of getting to this page anymore, as the higher ups, as it were, have created a new page that redirects Wikipedia:Translation into English to Wikipedia:Translation. Huh. I'll start cleaning up and moving things over to the other page, I guess. When I snooze, I most assuredly lose, it seems. Sigh. Tamarkot 04:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Public Relations Committee (Jackson Pierre/ Jean Marie Joseph)

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