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

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