Fundraising 2011/Translation/Recruitment

We've been experimenting with some new ways to recruit translators. Some details about the tests and results are below.

Campaign 1: 2011-09-15 [edit]

Goal: Recruit translators for French and Romanian
Time: 18:40–19:40 UTC (1 hour)
Targetting
- By language: French and Romanian
- By country (English wikis): Belgium, France, Moldova and Romania

Goal: Recruit translators for Danish, Finnish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk) and Swedish.
Time: 17:00–20:00 UTC (3 hours)
Targetting
- By language: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Swedish
- By country (English wikis): Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden

Goal: Recruit translators for Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Swedish and Welsh
Time: 15:00–21:00 UTC (6 hours)
Targetting
- By language: Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Swedish, Welsh
- By country: (see below)

Goal: Recruit translators for German, Dutch and Italian
Time: 17:00–21:00 UTC (4 hours)
Targetting
- By language: German, Dutch, Italian
- By country: Andorra, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, San Marino, South Afrika, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Vatican City

Goal: Recruit translators for Portuguese and Spanish
Time: 17:00–22:00 UTC (5 hours)
Targetting
- By language: Portuguese, Spanish
- By countries (English wikis): Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela

Goal: Recruit translators for: Cantonese, Chinese, Korean, Malay, Min Nan, Indonesian, Japanese and Tagalog
Time: 06:00–20:00 UTC (14 hours)
Targetting
- By language: Cantonese, Chinese, Korean, Malay, Min Nan, Indonesian, Japanese, Tagalog
- By country: China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

- Arabic, Estonian, Persian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish
Time: 12:00–23:59 UTC (12 hours)
- By language: Arabic, Estonian, Persian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish
- By country: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Oman, Poland, Palestine, Romania, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen