Interested in translating Ebola-related articles and other medical articles
on Wikipedia into your local language, like Akan, Ewe, or Dagbani?
Please get in touch with Carl below
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From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland <cfsjoland(a)icloud.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana
To: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>om>, James Heilman <
jmh649(a)gmail.com>gt;, Ildiko Santana <ildikosantana(a)gmail.com>om>, Enrique
Cavalitto <enrique(a)proz.com>
Hi Rexford,
I'm sorry for the late reply, I've been away and for some reason this mail
didn't go out from my usual account.
I'd be very grateful for any contacts interested in working on the project,
and we are also looking for community organizers for specific languages.
Also, we are looking into various Ghanan languages, if you know of anyone
who may be willing to translate the Ebola article for example. As for
regional banner, do you mean on specific Wikipedias? And who do I in this
case turn to?
Best,
Carl Fredrik Sjöland
On Aug 13, 2014, at 08:03 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Carl,
Thanks for getting in touch and I'm glad the medical translation is in
progress.
The need to get those medical articles into Afrikaans and Xhosa is very
important.
I can help in trying to reach out to as many persons as possible who speak
these languages.
I, for myself, I am a Ghanaian by birth and can't speak nor understand nor
write any of the South African languages except for English.
However, I think I can be of assistance by putting up a call for persons to
who can speak that language to help in the translation.
One area I would suggest you exhaust is also putting a regional banner on
Wikipedia inviting persons who speak that language to volunteer.
I'll start right away in trying to reach out to many people as possible,
and I hope I get persons who will be interested and be of assistance.
Thanks
rexford |
google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone
On Aug 12, 2014 11:51 AM, "Carl Fredrik Sjöland" <cfsjoland(a)icloud.com>
wrote:
Hi,
We spoke briefly at Wikimania, and I was delighted to hear that you may be
able to put us in touch with Xhosa and Lhasa speaking people. We spoke
about possibly reaching out to a number of medical students, and Victor was
even able to tell me that one of the girls who participated in the video
was studying medicine now.
If we could work on spreading the translations of Ebola as fast as
possible it could bring about an increase in the awareness of the project.
Currently we are translating into a large number of languages, but have
found no translators from any South African language.
To see the full extent of our current translation work on Ebola please go
to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RTTS
and look for group 7 or 8, where most of the African languages we are
working on are grouped. If you are able to put us in contact with anyone
willing to help in a language not on this list currently, we are very open
to expanding it - even if this Wikipedia doesn't exist yet, we also have
content on the incubator.
Best,
Carl Fredrik Sjöland
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