Amir asked Kimberli Mäkäräinen (User:Yupik) if she would be interested in serving on the language committee. Since I have worked a lot with Kimberli over the years, especially on the Sámi project that Wikimedia Norge is working on, we thought it would be a good idea if I introduce her to the list.
Kimberli is originally from the US, but has lived in Finland for decades, where she studies for her PhD and works as a professional translator. She has been a Wikipedia contributor for many many years already, especially working in the Northern Sámi Wikipedia, but also in several other languages. In order to get details right I asked her to send me some, and she had this nice academic introduction ready at hand: Kimberli Mäkäräinen graduated from the University of Illinois at > Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA (BA in Linguistics with high distinction, > 1994), the University of Helsinki (UH), Finland (BA in English Translation, > 2015; MA in English Translation, 2016), and is a thesis short of a second > MA in Saami Studies from UH (2016–). Ms. Mäkäräinen has combined her love > of translating legislation, terminology, and the Saami languages in her > PhD, which debates the ease of understanding the terminology used in > Finnish legislation translated into Skolt Saami. Awarded High Distinction > from UIUC for her thesis, A Papyrus in Fayumic Coptic, she is an authorized > translator from Finnish into English, and received an NIAS SUPRA Nordic > Scholarship for her work on translating legislation in multilingual legal > systems involving lesser-resourced languages. Both professionally and > personally, Ms. Mäkäräinen believes everyone should be able to read the > laws affecting their everyday lives in their own language and more > resources should be allocated to allow this to happen. Accordingly, she > advocates through her work for the use of languages ranging from Tundra > Nenets to Zulu in open-knowledge projects like Wikipedia and other > Wikimedia projects, the Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences, and > other dictionary and knowledge projects. > I believe Kimberli would make a great addition to the language committee, and hope you all agree. :-) -- mvh Jon Harald Søby
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