wikimedia translation in meta-wiki
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Translations on Wikimedia Meta-wiki
Kizu Britty Naoko / [email protected]
Talking points:
What is Meta
What is translated on Wikimedia projects and by whom?
How Wikimedia translators form their community
Challenges - for better internationalization
What is Meta
wiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org)
kitchen of Wikimedia project
for interwiki coordination
multilingual community
translation platform for Wikimedia project
Wikimedia projects and translations
Content
Public relations of Wikimedia Foundation
Global concerns of editor/volunteer community
MediaWiki interfaces and other technical assistance
... and what are on meta
Content translation initiativestranslation of the week coordination
Public relations of Wikimedia Foundationnotices, policies, fundraising messages ...
Global concerns of editor/volunteer communitymanagerial polls (vs. content polls)
MediaWiki interfaces (now on translatewiki.net)historically on meta
... related communications and information Babylon noticeboard, FAQ, and requests
Who are doing these translations?
Volunteersno staff hiring for translations to date
Not only amateurs, professionals also volunteer
cf. In a research, 30% of interviewed Wikipedia translators were professional (Maria Fanucchi, 2008)
Communication channels on Wikimedia translation
Meta-WikiBabylon noticeboard
talk pages of each requeststalk:Translation requests - xx pages
mailing liststranslator-l
transcom list
IRC#wikimedia-translation
skype open chat
Transcom
Translation Subcommittee of Wikimedia Communications Commitee
Group of coordinators (not translators)
Wikimedia Foundation PR related materials (and only)
What Transcom is not concerned
Content translations (e. g. on Wikipedia ...)
Community polls
MediaWiki interface
... and other technical tools
Challenges
Increase visibility of existing translations
Get more translations
Control quality
Get more volunteer-translators
Get feedback from the audience
and more ...
Thank you for your inputs in advance
mail: [email protected] presentation is under CC-BY-SA 3.0