I very much hope so.

But right now... what we need is to review the articles so as to avoid keeping obvious and stupid mistakes in the biographies before translation.

And to make sure the English versions are ok, because I suspect most people would be more likely to translate from English rather than other language.

Quality of articles vary A LOT. Initially, I thought we could find 16 articles about african women of good quality.
Well... no.... not so. I searched a lot. There are hardly any GA articles about African women. Half of the current GA ones were done this year.

So the articles are a mix of GA articles and articles of lesser quality but interesting nevertheless. Either not translated in many languages or most versions being stubs.


Flo




Le 12/02/2017 à 14:08, Olatunde Isaac a écrit :

This is a brilliant idea. I believe the content translation tool would be extremely useful for this.[1]

Best,

Isaac

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
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Subject: [African Wikimedians] Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios

In about a week, we will launch a friendly "translate-a-thon" effort on
16 biographies of African women so that they get translated in "as many
languages as possible" (at least 16).

In the meanwhile, we need your help to "improve/polish" the ENGLISH
Wikipedia version of the biographies selected (as it is likely to be the
"master" of most translations). #16wikiwomen

Please join and help us to do that :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon#Our_list_of_16_articles


The complete list includes

* Malouma, Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, politician, South Africa
* Cri-Zelda Brits, South African crickete
* Manal al-Sharif, Saudi women's rights activist
* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian women's rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, Nigerian Igbo writer
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, Pioneer educator in Liberia
* Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, Egyptian activist
* Yaa Asantewaa, Ghana, former Queen Mother
* Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, Paralympian athlete from Algeria


Please defend the colors of your nation if one biography is about
someone from your country !


For those bilingual French/English, please help improve the English
version of
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozizwe_Madlala-Routledge
using the French version


For those bilingual Arabic/English, please help improve the English
version of
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_al-Sharif
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz
using the Arabic version


Thanks !


Florence


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