Ça va être bien! It will be good! Je vais faire du bénévolat pour ceci. I will volunteer. Étienne (Ebe123)
On 11-10-16 8:21 AM, "Maria Fanucchi" <marialado...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Cross-posting this to Translators-l, WikiEN-l and Foundation-l, because > there is a considerable amount of overlap, as you'll see. Volunteers from > several Wikipedias may be needed, and the Foundation could eventually be > involved if the project becomes an annual one. I apologize in advance to > those subscribed all three lists.] > > Hello everyone, > > (Note: For those who don't know me, I am [[User:Arria Belli]]. Former admin > and arbitrator over at fr:wp, and member of the LangCom. I met some of you > at Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, where I did a presentation called "Translation > in Wikimedia Projects" ex-aequo with [[User:Britty]].) > > I've just started a master's degree at the ESIT (Ecole supérieure > d'interprètes et de traducteurs) in Paris, in English/French/Spanish > translation. It's quite a good school; a large percentage of the > interpreters and translators working in international organizations are > graduates of the ESIT. > > My French-to-English translation professor has asked me to set up a project > for all the students in her class, translating Wikipedia articles. We're a > small group: there are only about 5 or 6 of us. What we'd be doing is taking > articles from fr: and translating them to en:. Students are free to choose > the articles they'll translate. > > Since I'm mostly active over at fr:wp, I will need some help from people on > en:. Most notably, I think it would be wise to set up a small group of en:wp > volunteers who could guide the students on a one-on-one basis in case they > have trouble understanding wiki markup, references, etc. I would be > coordinating the project, but I don't think I could field all the students' > questions at once! Any volunteers? > > I want to make this as positive an experience as possible for everyone > involved: the students, the professor and the institution. If the project is > successful enough, it might happen again next year or even next semester, > and become a regular thing. > > As a very important aside: My professor told me that professors in other > language combinations might also be interested in Wikipedia projects of > their own. Therefore, there could be an English-to-Russian project, or a > French-to-Spanish one, or French-to-Korean, etc. I'll let you know as soon > as I'm told whether this could happen. Even if no other language > combinations are interested, they might be next year if this one is a > success. > > Thank you, and happy editing. > > Maria Fanucchi > [[User:Arria Belli]] > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l