[Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 February 2018)

(Hello, I am trying something new this week by writing in Spanish. I am hoping to encourage people to contribute to this conversation in their preferred languages.) Hola, estoy intentando algo nuevo esta semana escribiendo en español. Espero animar a las personas a contribuir a esta conversación

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

There were two presentations on paid translation at Wikimania in Gdansk. I think that would be 2010? One by Google.org, the other by Google.com (charity and corporate wings). I'm afraid my memory of the event is far from perfect. But some things stuck in my mind. As one would expect, many of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

John and All, As a possible complement to this discussion, CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School seeks to matriculate students in all ~200 countries' official/main languages ( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages), and may compensate them for work in a

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians: FYI, the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund and Fellowship

Dear Wikimedians! Apologies if this has already been circulated, but please do take a moment to read about the recently announced Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund and Fellowship: https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/07/bassel-post/ https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/961244979988455425 These

[Wikimedia-l] Join the third World Mime Day edit-a-thon

*Hello everyone!I’m writing you on behalf of Wikimedia Serbia, regarding organization of the third World Mime Day edit-a-thon.For the last two years Wikimedia Serbia collaborated with World Mime Organization , whose president is Marko Stojanovic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

I'll start by saying that I'm one of the developers of Content Translation, so I'm obviously biased about this topic. A lot of good points were raised here, but there's one that is not really mentioned. If it sounds obvious to you, it's great, but it's not obvious to everyone. Here it is: More

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

I should have joined in this discussion a little earlier. I work a lot with the French Wikipedia, and we do not just translate articles from English (6 million articles) to French (only 2 million articles). The French community is large and active, and provide a unique local perspective on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

How about training language experts in academic institutions on how to translate contents from one language Wikipedia (Eg. English wikipedia) to another? I believe this would be more productive than paying people directly to contribute or translate contents. Sometimes in 2016, I discussed with a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Don Wikimedians User Group

Congratulations, as well! Cheers, Scott - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Regions Soon to move into our new wiki here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in countries' languages On Feb 13, 2018 11:53 PM, "Nurunnaby Hasive" wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Some years ago I tried to figure out whether there was some kind of mechanism that kept the community sizes at a fixed level. Taking the population in countries that spoke a specific language, adjusting for access to internet, and family sizes, made me realize that most stable projects have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Any "global" list reflects (and I fear it will always reflect) the Weltanschauung of those cultures which are stronger on the web. I'm deeply concerned about cultures being eaten up by globalization but attempts to preserve them should take into account the risk of ending up preserving just "our"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

I like this! +1000!! On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Info WorldUniversity < i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote: > John and All, > > As a possible complement to this discussion, CC-4 MIT > OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School seeks to matriculate > students in all ~200

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

I am very happy to follow this thread as I believe it is addressing a very relevant issue. In my mind we can divide up the different language version into 5 categories: 1.Enwp, 2.the next 6-7 (de,fr, es,jp,pt,ru..) 3.the next 20 or so, where the basic workprocesses are applied 4.the next

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Sorry, but this does not make sense. The core articles apply globally. There will although be articles in additions to a list of core articles, but I don't try to advocate any of those lists as the one and only list. Actually I have toyed with an idea of automatically create a list of core

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Not sure what you mean by common search terms, but if it is about direct translation of search terms to get good SEO ranking it is outside what I'm talking about. That area will vanish completely in a coupe of years. I've replied about medical articles previously, and why this isn't an area where