Dear Florencia,

As a break to our routine translating activities, this is really a great and amusing contest. In fact, I am one of the finalists for English to Indonesian and Indonesian to English. Even though I am not the winner, I will certainly take part in the next contests.

Compared with the previous two contests, more translators participate in this third contest. Unfortunately, it appears that the number of voters is still limited (7 for English to Indonesian). Thus, I think it would be more interesting to provide non-members with rights to voting phase. By doing so, the number of voters will increase and the voting will be more representative.

Best Regards

Hipyan

Same here: not enough people voted in my language pair EN>AR and I am sure that I stood a real chance of winning that contest had the voting been open to all members.

I strongly agree with Alexandaer Onishko, If the right of voting gives to non-paying members, a large gate of falsification and non-real voting will be open, it will not be a real contest.

Why dont you include Punjabi English pair in future contests?

A few of us have submitted our feedbacks/opinions/suggestions regarding the Portuguese contest...without having received any acknowledgment or response whatsoever from Florencia, who apparently is the initiator of these contests...thus discouraging us from further participation, as much as we would like to...

Dear All,
It's great to participate and win.
One greatest challenge remains is to increase participation either for participating in the contest and attracts as many votes as possible.

I suggest several approach that can be improved in the future contests, based on 'stick and carrot' approach:

Participation:
1. Apply for all paying and non-paying members.
2. All paying member is automatically eligible for the contest.
3. All non-paying members is eligible for participation in the contest if: reached minimum membership years in proz.com as non-paying members, or reached minimum Kudoz points, LWA, completeness of profiles or other measurements now applicable and received for non-paying members.
- Paying and Non paying members will receive certain Kudoz points for participation.

Voting rights, basically almost the same:
1. Apply for all paying and non-paying members.
2. All paying member is automatically eligible for the contest.
3. All non-paying members is eligible for participation in the contest if: reached minimum membership years in proz.com as non-paying members, or reached minimum Kudoz points, LWA, completeness of profiles or other measurements now applicable and received for non-paying members.
- Paying and Non paying members will receive certain Kudoz points for voting a participant.
- Voters and participants of contest can obtain their 'hall of fame' too for their participation in Proz.com activities. Remember several online forums grant certain level of membership status for their active involvements in the forum such as 'Super Premium Users', "Premium Users" "Newbie" etc, which is automatically given based on numbers of postings, comments, Quick votes, etc that they make, and number of voting in contest can be also one aspect to be measured there. Looking at a web-system development this is quite a challenge if it is going to be implemented, but the principle of 'stick and carrot' should remains.

Thanks

I look forward to participating in the contest next time. In my opinion, only members should vote.

Ilana Cowan

Dear Florencia
Can we have a legal text next time? I really would love it,
may be a kind of contract?
Thank you!

I agree Gianfranco

But for me legal is fun :)!

Good idea, I mean the last one. I guess everyone would like to change subject, at least for the contest. Food for souls please, something that makes you feel good.

Sorry Angio, this is not what I meant. Your two messages came too fast. In fact I replied to Gianfranco. I clearly prefer "human" texts for contests.

Dear Henry,

it's a bit difficult to know the winner in the English>Arabic translation entry (I'm sure it's the same for other languages too), because all we saw was the text. Is there a way of attaching the name to text?

I want to know if the entry I voted for was the winning entry.

Thanks
Mona Helal

Two more winners in the Third ProZ.com Translation Contest:

Dear members,

Two drawings for another ProZ.com laptop case have just been held as previously announced in the contest forum.

I am happy to announced the two winners, one among those posters whose entries in certain language pairs were very few to enter the qualification round and another among those who actively participated in the last voting stage helping decide the winners!

I would like to congratulate the winners of those drawings, respectively, who are:

Dmitriy Kovalev, with ID number 27987 http://www.proz.com/profile/27987
who participated in the Russian>English language pair with only two finalists.

And...

Sussie Miles, with ID number 654432 http://www.proz.com/profile/654432
who voted in the final round to help decide the winners, and who also by chance participated in the English >Spanish language pair but did not to make it to the qualification stage.

Thanks you all for participating and supporting the contest!

Hope to see you all in the next one!

Kind regards,
Florencia

I, for one, fully agree with Gianfranco's comments!

Hi all, it was great to participate in the third translation contest. I submitted an entry for the Russian to Italian pair, unfortunately I couldn't access the internet at the moment when I had to decide whether to keep my entry public even though there were only two entries in this pair. I would like to ask if it's still possible to make my entry public; I would like to receive feedback from colleagues. Thanks a lot

Dear Katarina,

Please accept my apologies for the delay. I have read the Portuguse forum and my opinion as regards making the distinction between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portugese is this:
I really believe this is a delicate and difficult issue.
The same as with Portuguese, the Spanish in Argentina is not the same as the Spanish in Spain, or Mexico, or Colombia.
I think this distinction represents an additional issue that should be evaluated by the voters and also represents another challenge for the participants.
In my opinion the contest should reamain at the language level.

Thanks again for all your support and participation.

Kind regards,
Florencia

I also want to know about Malay translation contest. Please let me know about the text to be translated into Malay, so that I can ask my friend to translate and win some prize.

Thanks and regards.
Manohar Roshan

Je suis contente du résultat, car la traduction d'Elizabeth Ardans, par laquelle j'ai voté, m'a paru une des meilleures.

Dear Winners,

I have seen that you have experienced some kind of trouble while downloading your diploma.
The error message you get is because you need to use the Adobe Reader 8.1 version, the diploma is compatible with this last version only.
Here is the link to download the Adobe Reader 8.1:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Please apologize for any inconveniences that this might have caused you.

Kind regards,
Florencia

Dear Andrea,

The Third ProZ.com Translation Contest has finished.
In those language pairs where no winner has been chosen, it is simply because there weren't enough entries to enter competition.

I hope to see you in the next one!

Kind regards,
Florencia

Dear Andrea,

I see your point. For that reason, we are planning to open the Fourth Translation Contest for the English source text on Monday 30th next week (everybody will be notified bt email) at the very latest.
Having the source text displayed beforehand should help more members to submit their entries and make it to the qualification round by giving them more time. This could be relevant in language pairs with very few entries.

Thanks for your feedback.

Stay tuned!

Kind regards,
Florencia