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On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> wrote: > Interested in translating Ebola-related articles and other medical > articles on Wikipedia into your local language, like Akan, Ewe, or Dagbani? > > Please get in touch with Carl below > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM > Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana > To: Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]>, James Heilman < > [email protected]>, Ildiko Santana <[email protected]>, Enrique > Cavalitto <[email protected]> > > > Hi Rexford, > > I'm sorry for the late reply, I've been away and for some reason this mail > didn't go out from my usual account. > I'd be very grateful for any contacts interested in working on the > project, and we are also looking for community organizers for specific > languages. Also, we are looking into various Ghanan languages, if you know > of anyone who may be willing to translate the Ebola article for example. As > for regional banner, do you mean on specific Wikipedias? And who do I in > this case turn to? > > Best, > Carl Fredrik Sjöland > > On Aug 13, 2014, at 08:03 PM, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Carl, > > Thanks for getting in touch and I'm glad the medical translation is in > progress. > > The need to get those medical articles into Afrikaans and Xhosa is very > important. > > I can help in trying to reach out to as many persons as possible who speak > these languages. > > I, for myself, I am a Ghanaian by birth and can't speak nor understand nor > write any of the South African languages except for English. > > However, I think I can be of assistance by putting up a call for persons > to who can speak that language to help in the translation. > > One area I would suggest you exhaust is also putting a regional banner on > Wikipedia inviting persons who speak that language to volunteer. > > I'll start right away in trying to reach out to many people as possible, > and I hope I get persons who will be interested and be of assistance. > > Thanks > > rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone > On Aug 12, 2014 11:51 AM, "Carl Fredrik Sjöland" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We spoke briefly at Wikimania, and I was delighted to hear that you may >> be able to put us in touch with Xhosa and Lhasa speaking people. We spoke >> about possibly reaching out to a number of medical students, and Victor was >> even able to tell me that one of the girls who participated in the video >> was studying medicine now. >> If we could work on spreading the translations of Ebola as fast as >> possible it could bring about an increase in the awareness of the project. >> Currently we are translating into a large number of languages, but have >> found no translators from any South African language. >> >> To see the full extent of our current translation work on Ebola please go >> to: >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RTTS >> and look for group 7 or 8, where most of the African languages we are >> working on are grouped. If you are able to put us in contact with anyone >> willing to help in a language not on this list currently, we are very open >> to expanding it - even if this Wikipedia doesn’t exist yet, we also have >> content on the incubator. >> >> Best, >> Carl Fredrik Sjöland >> Wikiproject Medicine > > > > > -- > +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | Africa Center > <http://africacenter.net> | WiR > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence> | WikiAfrica > <http://wikiafrica.net> | User:Nkansahrexford > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > >
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