fyi, this info is from james heilman on wikimedia-l, who is working on an open textbook of medicine, on how they plan to translate english articles in local languages: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-October/122204.html

some rondom extracts:

We at Wikiproject Medicine are working in collaboration with Translators Without Borders (TWB). TWB does humanitarian translation for other NGOs. The project is described more fully here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task...

And progress can be seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task...

If other Wikipedians wish to help I would love that. James Heilman

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Creating content in Dari To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

So currently we are translating content into 37 languages. The main help we need is that from Wikipedians to add the content once it is translated into their own languages. Much of the time no content exists however some of the time the new content needs to be integrated with the existing content. If people are interested please sign up here with your language abilities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task...

We are having a webinar on this topic Oct 23rd for any interested more details will be available soon.

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