Various projects (GLAM/ARkive, GLAM/TNA, etc) are asking for articles to be translated into other languages.
Learning from GLAM/Derby, how can we make best use of people with time to do such translations? Do we need a Wikipedia page where such requests can be gathered? Currently, it's arduous to contact 280+ Wikipedias and make requests.
How can we reach out to language students (formal and leisure) and teachers? Can we encourage the latter to set Wikipedia translations as exercises for their students, instead of having them make redundant translations of books or such like?
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:20, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Do we need a Wikipedia page where such requests can be gathered?
Meta provides what you want:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
At Wikimania I met a number of people who were keen to jump start their chapter or proto chapters' GLAM program by joining in with one of our GLAM events. So next time we have a British Museum style editathon workshop with curators I'm keen to get skype channels setup and online participation from around the world. The model I'm hoping to emulate is the V&A Tipu's Tiger event where lots of participants were in India.
WSC
On 16 September 2011 13:22, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:20, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Do we need a Wikipedia page where such requests can be gathered?
Meta provides what you want:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
And of course, not many translators actually watch the translation request page on meta.
So if it's a WMUK event, do post the translation request to this mailing list as well, and someone among us will jump in to help.
Deryck On Sep 16, 2011 9:52 PM, "WereSpielChequers" werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
At Wikimania I met a number of people who were keen to jump start their chapter or proto chapters' GLAM program by joining in with one of our GLAM events. So next time we have a British Museum style editathon workshop
with
curators I'm keen to get skype channels setup and online participation
from
around the world. The model I'm hoping to emulate is the V&A Tipu's Tiger event where lots of participants were in India.
WSC
On 16 September 2011 13:22, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:20, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Do we need a Wikipedia page where such requests can be gathered?
Meta provides what you want:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org