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Can you help verify translations of articles from German
Hello BananaCarrot152,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from German to English Wikipedia?



This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original German article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including German, using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from German. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:
 * 1) Josef Löwy  ✅
 * 2) Joseph-Bernhart-Gymnasium  ✅

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the German article, and assess them "Pass" or "Fail" (the Pass and Fail templates may be useful here). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then assessing it, that's even better, but it isn't required.) Also please note that we are assessing accuracy not completeness, so if the English article is much shorter that is okay, as long as whatever has been translated so far is factually accurate.

If you can help, please ping me here to let me know. You can add your pass/fails above, right next to each link, or you may indicate your results below. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 06:55, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Both pass, i also made minor improvements. is there a list of articles that need to be checked? happy to help. BananaCarrot152 (talk) 22:03, 11 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks! There is a list, and I can send you a link, but in order to manage multiple responses there's some procedures to go through if you want to access the list directly.  Let me know if you're interested and I'll send it to you.  There's about 200 in the list, of which about half are done, I think.  In the meantime, here's another ten for you:
 * Technical Naval Museum at La Spezia
 * John of Neumarkt ❌
 * Tibet Center Institute
 * Xaver Bayer ✅
 * Jean Lenert ✅
 * Gillis Hooftman
 * Helge Slaatto ✅
 * Namika
 * Psycho Village
 * So You Want To Write A Fugue?

This is a volunteer encyclopedia, so needless to say, if any of these look boring or don't interest you, just skip them. We appreciate your efforts! Mathglot (talk) 03:46, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Mark WikiProject Linux as inactive?
Hi! I was directed to your talk page by the participants list on  WikiProject Linux. I've started a discussion whether we can keep it running, or mark it as inactive.–  Abuluntu  ( talk 05:38, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for your kind words and encouragement! I will keep at it. :) BananaCarrot152 (talk) 19:02, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for writing said article! I was honestly surprised we didn't already have an article on such an important human right, but I am really glad we have one now! Happy editing, HouseBlastertalk 19:08, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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