There are now articles about Australia's Paralympics participation in Afrikaans and Portuguese languages. Thanks to the contributors who started those pages.
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australi%C3%AB_by_die_Paralimpiese_Somerspele_2012 https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austr%C3%A1lia_nos_Jogos_Paral%C3%ADmpicos_de_Ver%C3%A3o_de_2012 And one of the bios written by Laura has been translated into French. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Freney On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Day 4 of 14 is over, and the English page about Australia at the > Paralympics has received 20729 pageviews in the last 30 days. > > http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Australia_at_the_2012_Summer_Paralympics > > So far Australia has a page in German and French: > > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_Teilnehmer_Sommer-Paralympics_2012 > > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australie_aux_Jeux_paralympiques_d%27%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_2012 > > By size of Wikipedia, the next languages to be translated into are > Dutch, Italian, Polish, Spanish, then Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, > Chinese and Swedish. > > I think Chinese and Russian should be our primary focus. > > It would be good to have a Chinese language Wikipedia page as China is > leading the medal table, as they did for the Olypmpics, so this > presents a unique opportunity for Chinese Wikipedia to have the > information that Chinese speakers are looking for. > > The Chinese Olympics page received 94184 pageviews in July and 97069 in > August. > > Sadly, the main Chinese page for the Paralympics has received ~640 > pageviews in the last 30 days. > > http://stats.grok.se/zh/latest30/2012%E5%B9%B4%E5%A4%8F%E5%AD%A3%E6%AE%8B%E7%96%BE%E4%BA%BA%E5%A5%A5%E6%9E%97%E5%8C%B9%E5%85%8B%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E4%BC%9A > > And they only have articles written for three Chinese speaking countries. > > https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NPCin2012SummerParalympics > > According to the census, Chinese is one of the most important > languages in Australia other than English. > > The Chinese page about Australia at the Olympics received ~640 > pageviews for July and August. > > http://stats.grok.se/zh/latest30/2012%E5%B9%B4%E5%A4%8F%E5%AD%A3%E5%A5%A5%E6%9E%97%E5%8C%B9%E5%85%8B%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E4%BC%9A > > A Russian and Ukrainian page about Australia and Ukraine would also > help, as the Ukraine is coming fourth in the medal tally (and most > Ukraine citizens know Russian). > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_at_the_2012_Summer_Paralympics > > p.s. The quickest way to find <nation> at Paralympics in <language> is > to start at > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nations_at_the_2012_Summer_Paralympics > > And follow the interwikis on the category, or navigate to the English > page about the nation and see if it has an interwiki. > > (e.g. Italian Wikipedia doesnt have a category, as it has only one > article about a nation > https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_ai_XIV_Giochi_paralimpici_estivi ) > > Japanese and Swedish Wikipedias don't have an article about any nation. > > -- > John Vandenberg -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
