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

• 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

Language	Transl.
French	14
Romanian	3
Breton	1
Dutch	2
Persian	2
Galician	1
German	1
Total	24

Campaign 2: 2011-09-21

• 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

Language	Transl.
Danish	2
Finnish	1
Norwegian (Bokmål)	2
Norwegian (Nynorsk)	0
Swedish	6
Arabic	1
German	1
Spanish	1
Yue Chinese	1
Total	15

Campaign 3: 2011-09-27

3a

• 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)

3b

• 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

Language	Transl.
Afrikaans	1
Danish	4
Dutch	7
Finnish	1
German	6
Norwegian (Bokmål)	4
Swedish	7
Albanian	1
Arabic	1
Czech	1
French	2
Italian	1
Romanian	1
Spanish	1
Vietnamese	1
Yue Chinese	1
Total	40

Campaign 4: 2011-09-28

• 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

Language	Transl.
Portuguese	9
Spanish	53
Arabic	1
Catalan	7
French	7
German	2
Italian	2
Total	81

Campaigns 5 and 6: 2011-09-29

Campaign 5

• 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

Campaign 6

• • 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

Language	Transl.
Arabic	34
Cantonese	4
Chinese	57
Estonian	2
Persian	27
Greek	10
Hebrew	13
Hungarian	2
Indonesian	21
Japanese	17
Korean	12
Malay	0
Min Nan	0
Polish	7
Romanian	4
Tagalog	3
Turkish	16
Albanian	2
Armenian	1
Azeri	1
Bengali	2
Bosnian	1
Bulgarian	6
Cantonese	5
Catalan	4
Crotian	4
Czech	3
Finnish	1
French	10
Calician	1
German	14
Hindi	3
Italian	2
Kölsch	1
Latin	1
Malayalam	1
Macedonian	1
Russian	7
Serbian	1
Serbo-Croatian	1
Spanish	1
Thai	2
Urdu	2
Vietnamese	8
Welsh	1
Ukrainian	10
Total	316