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 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

-----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Sender: "African-Wikimedians" african-wikimedians-bounces@lists.wikimedia.orgDate: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:02:47 To: Mailing list for African Wikimediansafrican-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org 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_o...

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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Hi

Good idea.

Done here = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement...

Flo

Le 12/02/2017 à 14:45, Olatunde Isaac a écrit :

Hi Flo,

I completely agree with you on the need to do cleanup on the English language version of the articles before translation. In most cases, people hardly check for errors before translation. You can nominate the 16 articles for improvement at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement.... However, this does not stop anyone on this list from helping with improvements as well.

Best,

Isaac

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-----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:24:19 To: reachout2isaac@gmail.com; Mailing list for African Wikimediansafrican-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios

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 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

-----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Sender: "African-Wikimedians" african-wikimedians-bounces@lists.wikimedia.orgDate: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:02:47 To: Mailing list for African Wikimediansafrican-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org 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_o...

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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Hi Flo,

I completely agree with you on the need to do cleanup on the English language version of the articles before translation. In most cases, people hardly check for errors before translation. You can nominate the 16 articles for improvement at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement.... However, this does not stop anyone on this list from helping with improvements as well.

Best,

Isaac

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

-----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:24:19 To: reachout2isaac@gmail.com; Mailing list for African Wikimediansafrican-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios

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 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

-----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Sender: "African-Wikimedians" african-wikimedians-bounces@lists.wikimedia.orgDate: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:02:47 To: Mailing list for African Wikimediansafrican-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org 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_o...

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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