Hoi,
I am giving a lot of attention to content that deals with Africa. At that I
also target the Swahili wikipedia [1] (I have not filled in all the red
links yet). At this moment I am adding information in Wikidata about
Tanzanian wards based on sw.wikipedia categories and templates.
Many of the African language Wikipedias are struggling. By making the lists
as complete as possible based on categories and lists, the information
becomes more useful and better, it can be and is used in the same manner on
multiple Wikipedias. At this moment zu yo en sw Wikipedia. As the
information is made available using Listeria lists, the information gets
updated as and when new information becomes available.
Another notion of mine is that it will help with individual info boxes eg
for politicians, or indeed Tanzanian wards .. :)
NB I am a big fan of providing information using machine translation.
However, PLEASE consider the lessons learned from the Cebuano Wikipedia and
make the texts available in a cached way; not in the final form as saved
text.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS when there is something where we can collaborate, please let me know.
[1] https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtumiaji:GerardM
On 18 June 2018 at 01:12, Olya Irzak <oir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wikidata community,
>
> We're working on a project called Wikibabel to machine-translate parts of
> Wikipedia into underserved languages, starting with Swahili.
>
> In hopes that some of our ideas can be helpful to machine translation
> projects, we wrote a blogpost about how we prioritized which pages to
> translate, and what categories need a human in the loop:
> https://medium.com/@oirzak/wikibabel-equalizing-information-access-on-a-
> budget-4038f750e90e
>
> Rumor has it that the Wikidata community has thought deeply about
> information access. We'd love your feedback on our work. Please let us know
> about past / ongoing machine translation related projects so we can learn
> from & collaborate with them.
>
> Best regards,
> Olya & the Wikibabel crew
>
>
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