I would be happy to translate from English to Dagbani. I believe the indigenous languages like Dagbani also stand to benefit from such great projects as this. When there is the opportunity to do it in Dagbani, I will be available for that. Kind regards, Mohammed Awal
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 11:42 AM Gilbert NDIHOKUBWAYO <gigi.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mathilde. > > Glad to hear from you, and thank you for your email. > It will be my pleasure to be part of this project, please consider me in > it. > > Gilbert Nd. > Burundi. > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:28 PM Mathilde Louis via Eduwiki < > eduw...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> My name is Mathilde and I am an education project manager at Wikimédia >> France. Some of you may have seen me in Belgrade during the Eduwiki >> conference, as well as in a few Eduwiki meetings online. I am the >> coordinator of the project Wikeys, the pedagogical game >> <https://www.wikimedia.fr/wikeys/> that explains the functionning of >> Wikipedia (here is the french version, in pdf >> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Wikeys.pdf>). >> >> You will find more information on the game in a blog post >> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/22/wikeys-a-pedagogical-game-to-discover-wikipedia/> >> published in Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/> in March this year. >> >> As the subject of this email is probably letting you assume, I am writing >> on these lists to talk to you about a translation project : we would like >> to translate the game in English to spread it among the movement. To do so, >> we would like to involve the movement itself. >> >> Why not simply engaging a professional translator? Two reasons : >> >> - so that the english version is as close as possible to the >> wikimedian vocabulary, >> - to engage you in this project so it becomes a collaborative product >> of the wikimedia movement! >> FYI, Vjola (in cc) from Albanian Language Wikimedians User Group, >> translated the game in Albanian (many thanks to you, btw 😉) >> >> >> The idea is hence to gather a bunch of people (3 to 5) interested in the >> topic to help Wikimédia France with the translation. Ideally, the >> translation should take place in July so that the English version is ready >> for Wikimania! Then, here will be the steps : >> >> 1. The translation will be gathered in the file attached (built by >> the game designer who created Wikeys) >> > ideally from the 3rd to the 10th of july >> >> 2. After some proof reading, we will send the file to the game >> designer ... >> > ideally the 17th of july, to have at least a week >> >> 3. ... who will integrate the translation in the English version of >> the game, in a new pdf file (since the game is in print & play) >> > so we have the english version delivered a least a week before the >> start of Wikimania. >> >> >> If any of you is interested, just answer on this email loop. We could >> then organise a launching meeting to organize the work, on monday 3rd of >> july, afternoon (Paris timezone). How does that sound? >> >> Kind regards, >> -- >> *Mathilde LOUIS* >> *Chargée de mission projets pédagogiques* >> *+33 1 42 36 26 24* <+33142362624> >> *+33 6 23 01 49 91* <+33784379103> >> >> *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* >> *WIKIMEDIA FRANCE* >> Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance >> *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* >> *28 rue de Londres, 75009 PARIS* >> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1234174880> >> _______________________________________________ >> Eduwiki mailing list -- eduw...@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to eduwiki-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Eduwiki mailing list -- eduw...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to eduwiki-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list -- education@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to education-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
