Part of the problem may be that the vocabulary is lacking. It is very difficult to explain a concept in one language when you know the words only in another language, and it would be considered original research by some Wikipedias to make up words for the job. I have struggled with translations into Afrikaans, which has a reasonably extensive technical vocabulary, and good electronic dictionary systems,, but many concepts familiar to me in my fields of interest just do not have Afrikaans words (yet). Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WereSpielChequers Sent: 04 March 2018 11:54 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation Pine, there is one possible way to fund such translation in the future; The Foundation is building up an endowment. When that endowment has grown to the point where the annual return is sufficient to fund the Foundation, then you could re-purpose the annual fundraiser from collecting money to host Wikipedia, to collecting money to make Wikipedia available in other languages. If I'm correct in thinking that part of the problem for many of our widely spoken languages with weak wikipedias is that the more educated people who speak those languages are more likely to contribute edits in what is to them a higher status or more language or one more useful to their career, then maybe we should test using fundraiser type advertising to ask our English readers in places like India to translate articles from English to Indic languages. In some parts of the world where incomes are generally very low and financial donations reflect that perhaps we have little to lose by shifting now from asking for funds to asking for content donations, especially in the language of that area. WereSpielChequers > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:13:38 -0800 > From: Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation > Message-ID: > <CAF=dyJhxBXyhmMPvDYWA4oPGuj3mOTjQ1bP5QQKhGE3U2tDFcA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On the subject of paid translation, I could imagine this being > included in the scope of work for a "Wiki Community Foundation" or > "Wiki Content Foundation" that would do work that WMF doesn't do > and/or shouldn't do. I have a number of activities in mind for this kind of > organization. > Unfortunately, I do not know how to fund it. I think that this > organization should get most of its funding from non-WMF sources, and > WMF has such strong fundraising capabilities that I think that > competing with WMF for funding from readers and grant-making > organizations would be very difficult. If WMF would like to have > conversations about how the community could raise funds directly from > readers and non-WMF foundations, I for one would be very interested in having > that conversation. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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> --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
