Lucas Rosnau
Translation Coordinator, Wiki Project Med Foundation
Introduction to the WikiMed Translation Dashboard
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About This Course
An introductory course about using a translation dashboard to bring high quality, easy-to-understand health information to as many languages (Wikipedias) as possible. This course provides a quick overview explaining the content to be translated, how to upload translations into a target Wikipedia, and how best to collaborate with local-language Wikipedians.
Together we have created over 20,000 translations, representing more than 22 million words of text and worked in more then 150 languages! This translated content has received more than 3.7 billion pageviews since we began collecting data in 2015. And work has been carried out by more than 3,250 translators.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand the scope and philosophy of the WikiMed Translation Project.
Recognize the quality and readability of the source content.
Learn how to use the translation dashboard to upload information to a target Wikipedia.
Appreciate the need to collaborate and follow community standards.
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