Hi Maha, Could please clarify if your question is regarding translation as a career or translating Wikipedia articles?
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:11, Maha Badr <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All; > > > I need to start translate from Arabic to English and English to Arabic . > please can any one guide me . > > > Thanks & Best Regards > > Maha Badr > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Translators-l <[email protected]> on > behalf of [email protected] < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 2:00 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Translators-l Digest, Vol 141, Issue 20 > > Send Translators-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Translators-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Automated translation not working? (Philippe Verdy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:17:37 +0200 > From: Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > To: Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]> > Cc: Wikimedia Translators <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Translators-l] Automated translation not working? > Message-ID: > < > caga7jc1tdpcfxwcpjf3ma6bhaq78eh2gffglbpo12hpyvla...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > You did not specify which source page are you trying to translate, and on > which wiki.... Then we can look at the target of your translation attempt. > > Your provided this link: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Inhalts% > C3%BCbersetzung&page=Biniai+Nou+hypogea&from=en&to=de& > targettitle=Biniai+Nou+hypogea > > But the German Wikipedia does not have any page named "Biniai Nou hypogea". > You are probably trying to find this page on the wrong wiki ! Translations > are made wiki by wiki, but are enabled essentially on multilingual wikis > (such as Commons, or Meta), not on Wikipedia (translations of pages between > separate editions of Wikipedia cannot use the same tools) > > 2017-04-17 9:26 GMT+02:00 Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]>: > > > Hi Philippe, > > > > many thanks. > > > > Do you mean e.g. on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Inhalts%C3% > > BCbersetzung ? I don't see a yellow box? There is "Von einer beliebigen > > Sprache / In eine beliebige Sprache", but that lists English/German in > both. > > > > In any case - are you basically saying that English <-> German could be > > enabled? > > > > Many thanks! > > Bjoern > > > > > > > > On 16 April 2017 at 21:38, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> This is displayed in the top header (yellow box) which lsits the > >> "proiritized" languages. Anyway there's another setting (not displayed) > >> that disallow other translations (this was discussed recently when > someone > >> created a page to translate ONLY in minority languages, exclusing all > other > >> major languages than the source English). > >> > >> Experience shows that (espacially for minory languages that very few > >> translators available, many of them not being very fluent in English) we > >> need to always enable other languages thant English to help disambiguate > >> the English source so that translators for minority languages can see > >> translations proposed in other major languages and that are better > >> reviewed, in order to provide better translations not just based on the > >> English source but also on what they can better read and understand in > >> another language. > >> > >> I must confess that I see no reason to exclude any language (except old > >> compatibility languages whose use is no longer recommanded, and which > may > >> be configured globally, only if there's other choices of language codes: > >> those compatibility codes will finally be redirected to new ones or > locked > >> down). > >> > >> And for the ~15 major languages of the world (that are used as lingua > >> francas for regional or national interchanges) they should never be > >> disabled (notably because they are already used as fallback languages > for > >> missing translations in minority languages). For a list of fallback > >> languages (that should never be disabled), see for example what is > >> implemented in Commons and MetaWiki; this is more than just English > which > >> is only the last-chance fallback ! The list of fallbacks was first > >> implemtend as templates ,then as modules, and now as part of global wiki > >> configuration (and part now of MediaWiki itself with its API). > >> > >> > >> 2017-04-16 13:15 GMT+02:00 Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]>: > >> > >>> Thanks! How do I find out which language pairs are enabled? > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Translators-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > Translators-l Mailing List - Wikimedia > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l> > lists.wikimedia.org > Translators-l Wikimedia Translators. En: This list is for discussing and > announcing new translation requests across the Wikimedia projects. 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