We have a Kreyòl language translatathon in the works. Focus is unclear at this point and will depend a lot on our Haitian Creolist partners and their needs.
A L I C E B A C K E R Founder, Afrocrowd | <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd> Vice President, Wikimedia NYC <https://nyc.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home> Haitian Blog Aggregator: http://haitianbloggers.com Blog & LOF1804 Podcast: http://www.kiskeacity.com <http://www.kiskeacity.com>Twitter: @kiskeacity <http://twitter.com/kiskeacity> <http://twitter.com/kiskeacity> skype: alicebacker On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Brill Lyle <wp.brilll...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a tool that will be really useful to the AfroCROWD initiative that > Alice Backer leads (cc'd, as well as Pharos) -- especially for the Haitian > Creole community. > > I'm hoping AfroCROWD and WM NYC can support an intensive translatathon > focusing on Wikidata, and really take advantage of this great resource. > > Wonderful work! > > - Erika > > > *Erika Herzog* > Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle> > Secretary, Wikimedia NYC > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC> > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Lydia Pintscher < > lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > >> Hi everyone :) >> >> Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder ( >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order to >> fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller >> Wikipedias. Today we have rolled it out on the first 4 Wikipedias: >> Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan and Odia. When someone searches for >> a >> topic where no local article exists but Wikidata has data we will show an >> ArticlePlaceholder with this information and encourage the reader to >> create >> an article. I hope this will help these Wikipedias by offering their >> readers more content and by turning more of them into active editors. >> >> In order for the feature to work well we need labels for items and >> properties in these languages on Wikidata. A lot exist already but if you >> want to help out you can find items and properties that need labels in >> these languages at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator and >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties. >> >> What we rolled out today as usual is a first version. Based on the >> feedback >> from those 4 Wikipedias we will expand and improve it. One of the next >> things we will do is add the option to translate an article from another >> language if it exists using the Content Translation tool and fix known >> bugs. Things we know are still broken or need work: >> * language fallbacks in the properties are not working so you will see a >> lot of P1234 and so on until a label is added on Wikidata in that language >> * long identifiers break out of the identifier box on the right side and >> don't look good >> * right now you only get an ArticlePlaceholder in the search results when >> Wikidata has at least 3 links to other Wikimedia projects and 3 >> statements. >> We might need to tweak this number still based on feedback from the first >> Wikipedias. We limit this in order to not encourage readers to create an >> article that will be deleted right after they created it because it isn't >> notable. >> >> Here are some example pages: >> * Odia: >> >> https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:AboutTopic?entityid=Q131074 >> * Napolitan: >> https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A0le:AboutTopic?entityid=Q2613697 >> * Esperanto: >> https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345 >> * Haitian Creole: >> https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345 >> >> I'm really excited about making true on one of Wikidata's biggest >> promises. >> >> Cheers >> Lydia >> -- >> Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher >> Product Manager for Wikidata >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. >> Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 >> 10963 Berlin >> www.wikimedia.de >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. >> >> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg >> unter >> der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für >> Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
