Dear fellow wiki researchers,
I thought you might be interested in joining the wiki-translation community
which is being launched today. See details below.
Best regards,
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
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This is an invitation to join the wiki-translation community:
www.wiki-translation.com
Feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested.
Wiki-translation is a community for discussing the impact of the wikipedia
phenomenon on the world of translation. It is a place for people who are
interested in translation using a massively collaborative wiki paradigm. It is
a place where we can exchange best practices and tools for collaborative
translation, and learn how to use them to improve translation quality and
productivity.
The community was started in the Fall of 2007, as a result of online and
hallway discussions between the following people (in alphabetical order):
* Louise Brunette, Peter Cowen, Alain Désilets, Lucas Gonzalez,
Louis-Philippe Huberdeau , S.J. Klein, Nelson Ko, Marc Laporte, Jérémie
Leblanc, Thomasz Muldner, Cola Nahaboo, Kizu Naoko,Xavier de Pedro Puente,
Sébastien Paquet.
The following is a sample of topics which are deemed relevant:
* Practices and tools for translating any wiki content, including but not
limited to Wikipedia pages.
* Practices and tools for translating any content (wiki or not) which is
open, constantly evolving and may never reach a final stable state.
* Practices and tools for translating any content using a wiki-like
process. By that, we mean a process that presents many of the characteristics
of wikis like: open, massively collaborative, asynchronous, loosely coordinated
and controlled, volunteer-based, etc....
* Practices and tools for creating and using wiki-like dictionaries and
resources (ex: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, OmegaWiki) for the purpose of translating
any content (wiki or not).
* Research and development to make any of the above easier and more
efficient.
Here is how you can join this community:
1) First, register on the wiki-translation site
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-register.php
* Fill in the form.
* Note: You do not HAVE to be registered to participate in the community,
but registration will make it easier for you and the rest of the community to
interact together.
2) Then, monitor the site's discussion forum
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2
* Click on the first eye icon (beside New topic button)
* Note: Monitoring the discussion forum allows you to receive email
notification whenever a new message is posted.
3) Finally, browse the site's wiki pages and contribute
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/
* You can edit any page from there, simply by clicking on the edit button
or link at the bottom of the page.
* Note: You might want to consult our editing policy at:
http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-index.php?page=Editing+Policy
If you have any questions on how to participate in this community, we recommend
that:
* You look at our list of Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-index.php?page=FAQs+for+this+wiki&bl
* You post questions on the discussion forum:
http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2
We look forward to your participation, and hope you will find it useful and
worthwhile.
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