Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/Ebola translation task force


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The Ebola translation task force (ETTF) wants to provide in-depth information about Ebola in local languages in West Africa.

2019 update: Guaka (talk) is pushing this forward. See https://twitter.com/fifiglobal/status/1164458568126476289

In 2014 Ebola became a very serious problem in West Africa and globally. The lack of good information has been part of the spread. ETTF wants to provide and spread information in local African languages through Wikipedia, radio stations and...

You can help if you are an experienced wiki editor and/or speak a language spoken in West Africa. You can add yourself here directly. You can use the talk page or contact Guaka directly if you need help or if you have any questions.

Status

 * Ebola virus disease - Bambara - Wolof
 * Ebola virus

People

 * Guaka, in Europe, basic notions of Bambara (talk) 11:28, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * bm:Utilisateur:Misbaho, fluent/native? Bambara, in Bamako, Mali
 * A12n, in the US, rusty Fula (Fulfulde/Pular) and Bambara (talk) 13:18, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Ibou, in Dakar, Wolof
 * add yourself

contacted:
 * wo:User:Ibou - through email
 * Wiki Project Med board members - through talk pages

Languages
Colonial:
 * English, French

Mande languages:
 * Bambara - bm - Bambara Wikipedia - Ebola virus disease
 * Mandinka - mnk
 * Soninke - snk
 * Dioula - dyu
 * Bozo - bze
 * Mende - men
 * Susu - sus
 * Vai - vai

Fula languages - Fulfulde Wikipedia
 * Maasina Fulfulde
 * Pular language
 * Pulaar language

Dogon languages

Krio language - incubator

Wolof language - Wolof Wikipedia - Jàngoroy Ebola add more languages and ISO-639 codes

Questions

 * Where do we put this page? On en.wp, meta or elsewhere?
 * More articles to translate?
 * Which languages are essential?
 * Which languages do we want as well?

Answered questions

 * Where do we work on articles that don't have their own Wikipedia? "Incubator is the way to go for languages which do not yet exist."

Countries
main:
 * Mali - Languages of Mali
 * Guinea - Languages of Guinea
 * Sierra Leone - Languages of Sierra Leone
 * Liberia - Languages of Liberia

also important:
 * Burkina Faso,
 * Senegal
 * the Gambia
 * Guinea-Bissau Portuguese?
 * Ivory Coast

Short term

 * improve front page of Bambara Wikipedia
 * improve page about Ebola on bm.wp
 * get more contacts of people who speak Mande and Peul languages spoken in West Africa
 * translation for ff.wp
 * Afripedia session in Douala, Cameroon, early December, Guaka (talk) will teach there, one session about translating Ebola articles into local languages (outside or inside of official program)

Mid term

 * connect with local radio stations
 * connect with other organizations
 * connect with WMF
 * find some financial support for the project, ideally through an existing org?

Long term

 * keep it active and extend to other parts of Africa and other medical issues
 * build out Wikipedias in local African languages

WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_Task_Force

 * status of translations in other languages (scroll down) - none of the languages on this page are shown there - how to get more languages added?
 * Here's a start, in the case of Vai: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/vai/%EA%94%A4%EA%95%B7%EA%95%9E

Other

 * meta:Afrophonewikis

More information

 * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/translatinghope
 * http://kasper.re/wikipedia-peut-jouer-un-role-dans-la-bataille-contre-ebola
 * http://niamey.blogspot.be/2014/10/languages-communication-in-nigerias.html