Talk:Translation requests/WMF/Staff

pronunciation[edit]

Note: We now have a specific page devoted to keeping track of pronunciations: Translation requests/WMF/Staff/Pronunciation.

I would like to know how WMF staffs prefer to be pronounced their names, because, in Japanese texts where roman alphabet is not used, foreign words (many of them are proper nouns) should be written in Katakana reflecting the original pronounciation as far as possible.

So, I would like to know,

whether we may pronounce these names as American English; and
whether my pronunciation is correct.

--NJT 13:46, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Name	pronunciated as	First name	Last name	checked
Sue Gardner	American English	Sue is a common English name. [suː]	Gardner is a common English name. [gɑːrdnər]
Erik Möller	German or English	Erik as Eric of Eric Clapton [ɛrik]	oe as ea in heard, ller as in storyteller [ˈmœlɐ]	self-checked
Brion Vibber	American English	Brion like Brian [braiən]	Vibber [vibər]
Mike Godwin	American English	Mike is a common English name. [maik]	Godwin as in Godwin Austen or god and win. [gɑdwin]
Véronique Kessler	Français	Ver as in verify, rhymes with leek [ve.ʁɔ.nik]	Ke as in kettle, s as in six, ler as in teller [ˈkɛslər]
Cary Bass	American English	C as in care, ary as in Mary [kɛəri]	B as in box, rhymes with mass [bæs]	self-checked
Erica Ortega	American English	Eric as Eric, "a" is weak vowel schwa [ɛrikə]	Ortega [ɔrtegə]
Cheryl Owens	American English	Cheryl as Cheryl Lynn where Ch at the beginning is like sh in she, not ch in cheer [ʃeril]	Owens as Owensboro, KY; i.e. O as oa in boat, wen as in went, s as in closing. [ouwenz]
Kul Wadhwa	American English	u as in put? [kul] or but? [kʌl]	wa as wo in won, dh as in dharma, wa as wo in won. [wɑdwɑ]
Jay Walsh	American English	Jay as letter J [ʤei]	Wal as in Walmart, sh as in she. [wɔlʃ]	self-checked
Rob Halsell	American English	Rob is a common English name. [rɑb]	Hal as hall, sell as sell [hɔːlsel]
Oleta McHenry	American English	Ol as in Olivia, le as lea in lead, ta as in tank [ɔliːtə]	McHenry as McHenry, MD. [məkenriː]
Mary Lou Secoquian	English/Philippino		[sə.'ko.kee.ən] or [sə.'ko.kwee.ən]
International Staff - would be called according to their tongues.
Mark Bergsma	American English	Mark as mark [mɑːrk]	Berg as in iceberg, s as in closing, a is weak vowel schwa [bəːrgzmə]
Delphine Ménard	Français	[delfiːn] - pronounced like "delfin" in Spanish, Del as in "Dell", phi as in "fee", and a short n (the last e is mute)	the last d is mute. [mɛnɑːʁ]	self-checked
Tim Starling	American English	Tim is a common English name. [tim]	Star as star, ling as in darling [stɑːliŋ] (or [stɑːrliŋ] in rhotic accents)	self-checked
Frank Schulenburg	Deutsch

Note: I meant common English names as ones to be found in handy dictionaries.

労作ありがとうございます。 Cary は「キャリー」(eg. マライア・キャリー)か「ケアリー」か悩ましいところですね。細かいことですがTimはオージーなのでどちらかというと British のほうが近いのではないかと思います。Kul さんは「クル」または「クール」ではないでしょうか。Cool と同じ音、と説明されてますので。Mark はオランダ人です。なのでシュワーにする必要ないのじゃないかな。とはいえあとで foundation-l かどこかに流して本人にチェックしてもらうほうが早いような気はしますね。というわけで購読されているのでしたらお願いします。そうでなければ私のほうであとでみなさんに声をかけておきます。--Aphaia 13:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation-l は購読していますが、携帯でつまみ読みしているだけなので、よろしければ声をかけていただけますでしょうか（もしかして、すでにしていただいのでしょうか）。

日本語は（対中国語を除き）翻字ではなく音写で単語を取り入れるので、読みが重要だと理解しています（中国語や朝鮮語でも事情は類似と思います）。Michelをマイケルともミシェルとも読んであまり気にしない翻字文化の欧米の方には理解されにくいかもしれませんが、音写に非常に手間がかかると（原綴のまま組む専門誌などはともかく）報道記事としても採用されにくくなりそうです。--NJT 14:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ご報告遅れましたが、internal-l でお願いをしておきました。2月4日からWMF入りするVeroniqueさん以外にはお知らせがいっていると思います。なるべく早めにとはお願いしておきました。

ところでそのやりとりのなかで「それぞれ本人に自分の名前を読みあげた音声ファイルをつくってもらったらどうか」という意見が出ました。NJTさんはいかがお考えですか。--Aphaia 15:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resignation?[edit]

Have three staff who Aphaia deleted at 09:31, 1 February 2008, already resigned? If so, I'll remove them from Translation requests/WMF/Current staff/ja.--Bletilla 11:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Basically yes, it was planned that they would leave though. See this post for more information, specifically:

The St Petersburg office will shut down Thursday, January 31, and at that point, we will say goodbye to Barbara Brown (office manager), Sandy Ordonez (head of communications) and Vishal Patel (business development). Our accountant Oleta McHenry will be with us until the end of March, and Rob Halsell will remain as server tech out of Tampa. I want to convey the organization's deep gratitude to the entire staff who worked for us in St. Petersburg: Barbara, Sandy, Vishal, Oleta, Rob, Cary and Brion. It was not an easy year: thank you for sticking it out. We owe you, and we know it :-)

Cbrown1023 talk 12:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2008-08 update[edit]

Need to be updated / reopened. --Aphaia 19:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese have been amended. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:46, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but the translation request is closed now because we are expecting 2 new staff members to be added to the page on 4 August 2008. So, I'll wait to publish it until we get those updates as well (after 4 August). Cbrown1023 talk 14:05, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks OhamaUnited, it is ready to update, admitedly. On the other hand, Cbrown1023 is right. Rebecca Handler and Tomasz Finc start from August 4. If you would like to add them now (and comment them out for a while), it's more than fine to me. I commented out Rebecca who was added already to zh-hans page with a wrong date, because she hasn't started yet. If you add two those people to the page, so we will be able to start quickly in that date. Thought? --Aphaia 15:04, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a great idea. :-) Should we add them to the source too (but not the foundationwiki copy)? Cbrown1023 talk 15:33, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I need Tomasz Finc's official staff position title before I can translate, eh? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:09, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"software developer". Cbrown1023 talk 02:32, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, OhanaUnited thanks a lot! I uploaded two pages. Another new employee joined the office, named Patti, could you please add her to the page too? Thanks! --Aphaia 06:36, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. And it's time to get rid of the "This is a closed translation request." OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:47, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would have to differ, I'm sorry. The idea of the "closed" vs. "open" is to hopefully stop the back-and-forth from occuring and to have a clear source that is not updated so frequently. Cbrown1023 talk 19:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can't I just get a foundation account to avoid these back-and-forth messaging? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:50, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Accounts usually aren't granted for translation updates (see requirements on WMFACCOUNT). --Az1568 19:02, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it doesn't matter either way now because that page is backlogged since March. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of "working out of a office"[edit]

Hi, I trying to translate this page to German, but I cannot understand the meaning of "working out of somewhere" at the first sentence. Is it, that you work together somewhere (here: in the office) or that you work outside this place, or is there a different meaning. The first two cases don't convince me. Regards, Godai2 07:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for translating. :-) It means that they work in the San Francisco office (the first thing you said: "that you work together somewhere (here: in the office)"). Cbrown1023 talk 13:40, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]