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[Kenneth Nielsen <k.nielsen81@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24-02-2012 09:03, Andrej Znidarsic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think this is a good idea, which might motivate a certain amount of
> people. But on the other hand people might just go and translate very
> quickly with not much regards to quality in order to get 10 000 strings
> trophy faster. There needs to be some sort of balance.

Yes. Actually after writing the email I remembered something that Jono 
said about how the accomplishments should be formed. He has already 
elaborated some more on this in this blog post: 
http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/02/24/good-vs-bad-trophies/

I think this means that all the "higher numbers" are not good ideas.

> Additional achievements to consider:
>
> * Hard working translator (achieve and hold 5000 translation karma for a
> week)
> * Persistant translator - translate at least 5 messages a day for (7, 14
> and 30 days - gold, silver, bronze achievement)
> * Versatile translator - contribute to at least 10 different projects in
> Launchpad (besides Ubuntu)

The questions is if these also falls for the argument above. I think 
they might actually.


> * Upstreamer - your name/email address should be on at least one of the
> packages improted from upstream (gnome/kde/translation project)
> * Approved translator - become a member of Ubuntu/Launchpad translation
> group for your language
> * Curious translator - post a message to ubuntu-translator mailing list
> (not sure if it's traceable within ubuntu accomplishments)

These look nice. I'll try to form a wiki page with our suggestions to 
make the discussion easier.

Regards Kenneth

> Regards
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> Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
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> Dne 24. februar 2012 09:29 je Kenneth Nielsen <k.nielsen81@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:k.nielsen81@xxxxxxxxx>> napisal/-a:
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>     Hallo fellow translation coordinators
>
>     As you may have noticed, Jono Bacon is working on something that he
>     calls the Ubuntu accomplishment system. This is designed to be a way for
>     (new?) contributors to get little trophies when they make some sort of
>     contribution to Ubuntu. You can read/see video about the project and the
>     idea at Jono's blog[1] latest blog about this is[2].
>
>     While obviously a lot of people contribute without getting these kinds
>     of symbolic awards, I still thing it is a funny idea, especially because
>     it also helps people to discover the ways in which they can distribute.
>
>     I think we should try and make sure that translations has first class
>     support in this system right from the start. Jono has already asked for
>     help for coding the program and for creating new accomplishments, so I
>     think we should start out with an idea session where we discuss what
>     accomplishments we could have. These accomplishments need to be
>     conformable on launchpad, but I don't think we need to worry about
>     that now.
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>     Suggested accomplisments:
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>     * Make a translation suggestion
>     * Have a translation suggestion approved
>     * Approve a translation suggestion
>
>     Maybe also differentiate for documentation translations
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>     * Make a documentation translation suggestion
>     * Have a documentation translation suggestion approved
>     * Approve a documentation translation suggestion
>
>
>     I think that all of these three/six could (and should) have levels
>     attached to them, depending on the number, if that is ok by the idea of
>     the system. So we make different accomplishments for 1 (beginner), 100
>     (intermediate), 1000 (advanced) and 10000 (translations hero (or
>     something to that effect)).
>
>     Besides those we could also think about:
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>     * File a l10n or i18n related bug
>     * Triage a l10n or i18n related bug
>     * Fix a l10n or i18n related bug
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>     (we can probably piggyback the general bugs accomplishments for that)
>
>     and depending on whether these accomplishments should be achievable by
>     everyone
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>     * Form a translations team
>     * Coordinate/head a translations team (for 6 or 12 months)
>
>     What do you guys thinks, other suggestions?
>
>     Regards Kenneth
>
>     [1] http://www.jonobacon.org/blog/
>     [2]
>     http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/__02/21/ubuntu-accomplishments-__demo/
>     <http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/02/21/ubuntu-accomplishments-demo/>
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