Well done. /a
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Isla Haddow-Flood islahaddow@gmail.com wrote:
The wonders of this community! Love that 160 people contributed to the #16WikiWomen!!
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 at 19:36 Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com wrote:
And... magically... just today, I got the query data thanks to Amanda, EricB and Roan ! Thanks a lot !
I copied it here :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m9Kefc7QE3Ler7955vK4BMk1NK2XM
rivw99K06_9GFE/edit?usp=sharing
So in the end, we had 160 unique participants alltogether !
Flo
Le 17/03/2017 à 14:11, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Hello everyone
Time for some feedback about the #16WikiWomen translation drive !
The #16WikiWomen translate-a-thon was largely successful ! It not only contributed more content for Wikipedia, but also visibility about the African women gap !
Some figures
- Overall, 116 articles have been created based on translation from the
English version.
- Out of those, 64 are basically a near equivalent of the master
article
in terms of quality
- Additionally, 39 previously existing article versions have been
improved
- The overall number of languages concerned is 44 (+ English)
- Several communities created local pages on their own wiki to
coordinate the effort (nice !)
- The most active linguistic communities to participate to produce high
quality content were French, Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew. We also had good participation rates from Dutch, Portuguese, Punjabi, Swahili and very cool content from Igbo, Yoruba, Creole Haitien etc. (please do not be offended if I do not cite all languages ;))
- Half a dozen other articles were also suggested and though they
raised
less interest from translators, they are now noticed...
- Whilst we have not been able to figure out exactly how many people
participated, 54 people self reported participating to the translate-a-thon ! Awesome !
I hope everybody enjoyed it.
If I may share some "organizational feedback with you"
- It is quite challenging to actually communicate with many linguistic
communities. As much as I was motivated, trying to actually post information on a wiki where I do not recognise anything (like Hebrew or Arabic ...)... very tough
- I have not been able to identify someone who could help me do the
query that would allow to know how many people participated. I really tried... but failed. I must say I found that very frustrating to know that the info is out there but I do not have the skills to do the query myself and not able to find someone to help within two months. Missing something here
- Much to my dismay, many people obviously did not use the translation
feature. I had put a very visible link though. Weird
Thank you to all those who participated or relayed the information
about
the drive around.
Next steps: we plan to do... booksmarks... with the ladies biographies
;)
Florence
Le 20/02/2017 à 11:10, Florence Devouard a écrit :
In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki
Loves
Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon
The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16 languages (African or international languages).
The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African
women.
The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
- International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish,
Portuguese,
Mandarin, German
- African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana,
Zulu,
Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe,
Sesotho,
Chichewa
The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
- Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
- Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best
initial version was in French
- Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
- Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former
under-secretary-general of the United Nations
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
- Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
- Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
- Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
- Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
- Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
- Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in
Arabic
- Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
- Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
- Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
- Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
- Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria
Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities !
If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any comments here :
Translate-a-thon/participants
Results will be tracked on this page :
Translate-a-thon/tracking
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