[okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic

Thu Mar 14 13:45:34 UTC 2013

There seem to be a few projects around to apply crowdsourcing techniques to
translation; I wonder if any of these platforms are open to OKfn
collaboration, or if this would make sense as a way to optimize resources...

One example is MonoTrans:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/

(By the way hello all, and thanks to Sam for pointing me to the -discuss
list.  Just starting out in involvement w/OKfn, but excited!)

- Heath

On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Christian Villum wrote:

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>> Dear All
>> ?
>> ??? I wonder if any one here who speaks Arabic and would like to
>> translate the OFKN
>> ?? into Arabic ?
>> ?
>> ?
>> Regards
>> ?
>> Mohammed Hashim
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>
> Hi Mohammed,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I am not sure if you mean translating the
> website or something else?
> At present we do not really have the resources to do that, but if you
> would be up for taking part in such a thing maybe we could helt find more
> collaborators. Either here on the list or in our other networks.
>
> Are you engaged with open data/open knowledge/open anything in your
> country or region? Or would like to? Feel free to get in touch, we'd love
> to have more dedicated people in the network from the Arab world. Maybe
> even as an Ambassador? We've recently launched an online application for
> anyone interested in that - see http://okfn.org/local.
>
> -Christian
>
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