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[The Big Bin]

I think I sent them to Esa S. a couple of months ago when he was still in charge - nevermind, he'll certainly have got it and even if not, it was only a few very minor things. I must say that the German translations have gone way better over time. You should have seen them a year ago..!

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Per aspera ad astra

[Kraftwerk]

I´ve received a good text from a german Chamber of Commerce. Do you want me to send it to you or should i summarize it??




Blueberrycake Level Member of the WOT Community

[Kraftwerk]

the translation into german on the voting button is incorrect. It says "stimme". This is the translation for "vote", but it´s not the verb. to ask someone to vote is"stimme ab".

But as the poll itself is in english, it may should remain in english.

I´ve already contacted the support,but they didn´t react. So maybe i´m wrong. So i´ve decided to get more opinions.



Blueberrycake Level Member of the WOT Community

[c۞g]

As far as I am aware WOT translations are available because they link to [url=http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/ t=_self]Google AJAX Language API[/url] so all translations are done via Google and not because there are separate coded pages per language available.

[Kraftwerk]

But not the choosen languages. The poll is not translated by google, soi think the button is not translated by google also.


Blueberrycake Level Member of the WOT Community

[Timo]

I actually answered your support mail and said that I will pass the information to our translators. Our original plan was to update translations on January but it was delayed. It means that I haven't been able to ask their opinion in this particular translation.

Since I don't speak German I can't know which translation is grammatically the best. For this reason I left the current translation intact. Would someone confirm that "Stimme ab" is indeed the best translation for "Vote" in this situation?

[Kraftwerk]

Hi Timo.

I remember the mail. As you´ve written, you´ve planned to update translation till january. So i wasn´t sure if i might be wrong somehowso i tried to get another opinion with this posting.


Blueberrycake Level Member of the WOT Community

[aggro]

I'm fast getting to the point where I remove WOT from my browsers because of warnings and alerts that are flagrantly false and undeserved. When I check the ratings, comments, etc, I see a handful of posters who consistently rate good sites poorly, who are outvoted many times over by positive comments and votes, yet the miniscule minority rating prevails.

I can see some serious legal challenges in WOT's future if this imbalance continues.

[Master Marik]

Maybe WOT should allow rating URLs on forum posts so that you know not to click the URL if the site is shown to be bad.

[c۞g]

You could encourage the forum to incorporate WOT's widget or API so that all links show WOT's icon, even to those who do not have WOT installed.