Edit 2016/How Wikipedia can collaborate with the translator community: Submissions:2019/“Wikipedians are born, not made” – applying the learnings from a 10-year-old research paper after all

Title

Theme

Community, Outreach

Academic Peer Review option

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Type of submission

Preseation

Author

Addis Wang

E-mail address

addiswang94 gmail

Username

AddisWang

Affiliation

Wikimedia User Group China

Abstract

Wikimedia User Group China has collaborated with "Project Babel", a volunteer translator community organized by Chinese leading online dictionary company Youdao since May 2015. This project has contributed 52 high-quality articles to the Chinese Wikipedia, translated from English Wikipedia, covering subjects from political science to medicine.

Most Wikipedia communities, unlike English Wikipedia, have a translation culture of sorts that contributes to the project by translating and enriching content from major Wikipedia projects. Translation is a relatively easier way to contribute Wikipedia, and has been adopted by many communities around the world as an effective method of outreach for new contributors.

Besides Youdao, China User Group is also developing partnerships with other companies or organizations that run the volunteer translator community, as well as translation camps for college students who study languages.

The United State has an outstanding culture of learning other languages thanks to a very diversified society, as well as most college students being required to master a second language to graduate. How can the Wikipedia community collaborate with these language learners, practicers and educators to improve other Wikipedia projects besides English Wikipedia?

Length of presentation

15-20 minutes

Special schedule requests

Not on Monday

Preferred room size

25

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

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