Translation

Translating COVID-19 related resources into your mother language

There are plenty of useful resources written in English and to translate them into other languages is significant to share knowledge beyond language barriers.

Assuming contents to be translated

• Wikidata items and lexemes
• Blog posts
  • https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
• Publications at China National Center for Bioinformation: https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/publication/
• (add anything)

Agenda

• Which tool we use to translate
  • deepL
  • Google Translate
• Platform / Translation Management Software
  • Crowdin
  • transifex
  • lokalise
  • GitLocalize
  • (Portal Site)
  • For Wikidata: TABernacle (example1, example2) and Ordia (example)
• Where to publish / Licensing
  • At this wiki?
• How we can leverage translation works by this virtual BioHackathon
• How about translating non-English contents to English, not only English to other languages
• Anything else?

Communication Channel

• https://virtualbiohac-xt62674.slack.com/ (#translation)

Work Summary

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14LN9J3gKUFkfNb_lGR5OgtfhiFabVGHs7MUkzoC5oYA/edit#gid=0

Participants

(Feel free to add your name)

• Yasunori Yamamoto (translating to Japanese) (coordinator)
• Felizitas Eichner (translating to German and/or Dutch)
• Mariana G. Ferrarini (translating to Portuguese)
• Laura Zaragoza Infante (translating to Spanish)
• Asimina A. Tsirigka (translating to Greek)
• Erwin Sentausa (translating to Indonesian)
• Leyla Jael Castro (translating to Spanish)
• Elisa Dell'Aglio (translating to Italian)
• Haruo Suzuki (translating to Japanese)
• Susanna Ånäs (Creating a translation Dashboard https://wikidocumentaries.wmflabs.org/wiki/COVID-19_Global_Dashboard)
• Shuich Kawashima (translating to Japanese)
• Tiago Minuzzi (translating to Portuguese)
• Daniel Mietchen (translating to and from Wikidata)