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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman < jmh649@gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
I am interested I can do from Englist to Asante Twi
Raphael Berchie +233243882047 P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman < jmh649@gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
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I am interested will translate from English to Ga and will talk to a couple of friends i think would be interested as well.
Regards Edmund.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
I am interested I can do from Englist to Asante Twi
Raphael Berchie +233243882047 P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman < jmh649@gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
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Can help translate into Dagbani.
User:Masssly
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Edmund Laryea Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 2:27 PM To: Wikimedia Ghana User Group
I am interested will translate from English to Ga and will talk to a couple of friends i think would be interested as well.
Regards
Edmund.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
I am interested I can do from Englist to Asante Twi
Raphael Berchie +233243882047
P.O Box CT 10469
Cantoments Accra
Ghana
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
Will be assisting Edward with the GA
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, masssly@ymail.com wrote:
Can help translate into Dagbani.
User:Masssly
Sent from Windows Mail
*From:* Edmund Laryea *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2014 2:27 PM *To:* Wikimedia Ghana User Group
I am interested will translate from English to Ga and will talk to a couple of friends i think would be interested as well.
Regards Edmund.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
I am interested I can do from Englist to Asante Twi
Raphael Berchie +233243882047 P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman < jmh649@gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
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Mr. Ewe will do his part too! :-D
- Enock
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Felix Nartey flixtey@gmail.com wrote:
Will be assisting Edward with the GA
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, masssly@ymail.com wrote:
Can help translate into Dagbani.
User:Masssly
Sent from Windows Mail
*From:* Edmund Laryea *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2014 2:27 PM *To:* Wikimedia Ghana User Group
I am interested will translate from English to Ga and will talk to a couple of friends i think would be interested as well.
Regards Edmund.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
I am interested I can do from Englist to Asante Twi
Raphael Berchie +233243882047 P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman < jmh649@gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
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Great hearing all the positive responsive. Please get in touch with Carl directly and talk over. He's got ideas and precesses that I think will smoothen the process for you guys.
I think I'll be a good idea to put him through this mailing list too. I'm doing that now On Aug 22, 2014 7:25 PM, "Enock Seth Nyamador" kwadzo459@gmail.com wrote:
Mr. Ewe will do his part too! :-D
- Enock
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Felix Nartey flixtey@gmail.com wrote:
Will be assisting Edward with the GA
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, masssly@ymail.com wrote:
Can help translate into Dagbani.
User:Masssly
Sent from Windows Mail
*From:* Edmund Laryea *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2014 2:27 PM *To:* Wikimedia Ghana User Group
I am interested will translate from English to Ga and will talk to a couple of friends i think would be interested as well.
Regards Edmund.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
I am interested I can do from Englist to Asante Twi
Raphael Berchie +233243882047 P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
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
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland cfsjoland@icloud.com Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com, James Heilman < jmh649@gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana ildikosantana@gmail.com, Enrique Cavalitto enrique@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@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@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 Wikiproject Medicine
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Hi all,
I think the way you are taking forward the Ebola translations is very important.
I think it might be useful to do some outreach in the UK to find people who speak relevant languages who would up for helping in this.
I have discussed it in my blog, Wikimania saves lives, http://leutha.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/wikimania-saves-lives/ which I hope helps
all the best
Fabian
Thanks for sharing.
- Enock On Aug 25, 2014 12:22 AM, "Wikimedia Ghana User Group" < wikimedia-gh@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I think the way you are taking forward the Ebola translations is very important.
I think it might be useful to do some outreach in the UK to find people who speak relevant languages who would up for helping in this.
I have discussed it in my blog, Wikimania saves lives, http://leutha.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/wikimania-saves-lives/ which I hope helps
all the best
Fabian
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