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Need Translator

I'm in need of someone to assist me with a couple of references that are in German, for the Biography article of Michele Weiner-Davis I am working on in my sandbox, that support her mother. I can give you specific questions I have. If you can help me, please leave me a message on my talk page here:Tinkermen Wednesday January 13th

Our award

I've copied this from my user page, so as not to take all the credit - well done everyone!

Below our star, our helpful Wikipedian has given us some hints on tables and pictures. --AnTransit (talk) 13:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Rosetta Barnstar
		For you and your team, for your great job in translating Medieval Greek. Thank you guys! Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:50, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

About the images: the ones that were used on de:Mittelgriechische Sprache are all already stored on commons:, so we can actually use them here right away: just copy over the image code, replacing "Bild:" with "File:" and translating the caption as needed. What can get really tricky is the tables – those in the original article have some unnecessary markup ballast, and getting them right for en-wiki requires quite a bit of tweaking. Here's a slightly more efficient way of doing them:

	Front		Back
	Unrounded	Rounded	Rounded
Close	/i/ ι, ει, η	/y/ υ, οι, υι	/u/ ου
Open-mid	/ɛ/ ε, αι		/ɔ/ ο, ω
Open	/a/ α

Cheers, -- Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:04, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alternav

Thanks to Esteffect

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	Thank you for your contributions KarlssonVomDach (talk) 12:51, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Request for translation

In connection with our article on the May 25 Houla massacre, what in my estimation appears to be an important new source has emerged in the June 23 article "In Syrien gibt es mehr als nur eine Wahrheit" in the Berliner Morgenpost. Given that in the past there has been much controversy over introducing sources which contradict the main narrative of the massacre, i.e. that it was perpetrated by the Syrian government, or groups loyal to it, I believe a high-quality translation of this article is necessary to facilitate a fully informed discussion about its use.

Based on past experience I have requested a translation from you as well as four other translators listed at Wikipedia:Translators available#German-to-English. Therefore, should you decide to take on this task, I would ask that you either give notice to the other four that you are doing the assignment, or to me and I will let the four other know. (I suppose, as a matter of quality assurance, two translations could be presented for comparison, but I don't see that as required at present, but if a second translator would like to duplicate, all the better.) I'm listing the other four below:

Your user sandbox could be used as target for the translation (i.e. a permanent link to it would ensure its availability in case it becomes overwritten). __meco (talk) 08:26, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Marcika has provided a partial translation as presented at Talk:Houla massacre#German articles. This is significant and will be very helpful in the assessment of the Berliner Morgenpost article as a source for our article. However, a full translation would be preferrable, so I will let the request stand in case any of the translators (including Marcika) will see it possible to produce this. __meco (talk) 08:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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	Your project is really outstanding! Thank you so much for improving wikipedia. JimRenge (talk) 17:07, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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One person, one account

On your user page (this version) you write "we are a group of people". Please understand that Wikipedia has as strict one person, one account rule. A user account may not represent a group of users. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:46, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiDan61: That description has been on my user page since 23 June 2006 and, until now, no one had understood it to mean that my page is a communal page; you're the first to write to me about it. I have nevertheless changed the wording. That should do the trick, shouldn't it? --OberMegaTrans (talk) 13:42, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:49, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you help verify translations of articles from German

Hello OberMegaTrans,

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

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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:

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) 06:44, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot: We will be taking a look at it soon. We'll get back to you with an evaluation as soon as possible. OberMegaTrans (talk) 15:07, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Someone else is looking at Hamburg MoW now, so I've added a new one instead at #3. Thanks again, and ping me with any questions or comments. Mathglot (talk) 05:09, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot: We're done. They both pass. Thanks for asking! — Preceding unsigned comment added by OberMegaTrans (talk • contribs) 12:15, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 03:40, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

German Translation Verification Request

Hi,

I found your name in Wikipedia:Translators_available#German-to-English. I recently translated User:Degeno/Canton of Mutterstadt, using Google translate (carefully sentence by sentence, sometime clause by clause, cleaning up and resolving issues as best I could), and I'd appreciate it if you could double-check it to the point where I might be able to remove the "rough translation" banner. I lined up the original German sentences with my translations using Template:Clarify, which I hope will make that easier, but the text still follows de:Kanton Mutterstadt closely if that's better.

Thanks! - Degeno (talk) 15:16, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please import version history

Dear OberMegaTrans, please be aware that copying articles from de.wp for translation, like Sally'sWorld did with the article mainly written by Andreas Schwarzkopf at User:Sally'sWorld/Pflastermosaike in Freiburg violates the CC-BY-SA license since the creators of the translated article are not mentioned. In order to fix this, please always file Requests for page importation (which can also be done afterwards, but should really not be forgotten!). For details, please refer to de:Wikipedia:Übersetzungen#Lizenzfragen: Urheberrecht und Originaltext. Thanks for spreading "the other side of Wikipedia" at your university. Best regards and happy holidays, --Flominator (talk) 18:20, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Flominator: Thanks for the clarification. We'll be talking about how to take care of that later today! OberMegaTrans (talk) 10:22, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Any results? --Flominator (talk) 10:19, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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CookieJarStupidity

Hello. Could you please confirm that user:CookieJarStupidity is one of your alternative accounts. Thank you. CLCStudent (talk) 14:40, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello CLCStudent. user:CookieJarStupidity is one of our members. They will be working with us this semester. Could you please reinstate their Userpage. If you have any questions about our project, please let me know. OberMegaTrans (talk) 14:45, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I did not deleted her userpage. Userpages always start off blank until the user posts content there. Anyway, thank you for the confirmation. CLCStudent (talk) 14:47, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, "confirmation" is not exactly the correct word. user:CookieJarStupidity is not "one of my alternative accounts" but rather one participant (of many) in our project. Thanks for your interst. 15:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Attributing translations

Hi, I noticed one of you(r students?) translated an article from German Wikipedia without attributing the translation (this is vital) and without porting over the references (this suggests none of them have been checked, which is alarming). Can you please have everyone involved review Help:Translation, particularly "License requirements"? Thank you!

Regarding references, you may want to prioritize translating articles with a good set of accessible footnotes (ie, ones you can easily verify yourself - online, books held by your library, etc). For two reasons: one, so you aren't accidentally spreading misinformation, and two, so your content isn't removed. German Wikipedia has very different standards from en-wiki with regards to footnotes and tolerates unfootnoted paragraphs provided there is a "Literatur" section to which the info can plausibly be attributed; on en-wiki an apparently unsourced paragraph is very likely to be deleted. -- asilvering (talk) 15:37, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reminder. We were just talking about attribution as a matter of fact. I will remind everyone once again.

As to references, we work on this as much as we can but it seems to be a perennial boogerbear. We are very familiar with the risk of deletion! But we shall do our best to keep calm, carry on and improve. OberMegaTrans (talk) 16:06, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Vanjagenije,

Yes, I saw that and have now responded:

"It is indeed legitimate. Our new term and class has just started and one of the first things I ask students to do is to register on Wikipedia and then to put something on their Userpage as a means of introduction. As we continue our work, it will become abundantly clear that they are working sensibly, collaboratively and hopefully helpfully on Wikipedia. I sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding.

On a side-note, things like this, and worse, happen routinely to my students on Wikipedia but in the 17 odd years I've been doing this, I cannot see any particular or clear pattern. Looking back, it actually seems very random and rather arbitrary. It often seems to be one particular Wikipedian who, for whatever reason, has a problem with one of my students (or their work). In over 90% of the cases, we're usually able to clear things up rather quickly. I've decided to use these events as "teaching moments" so I suppose a round of thanks is also in order. :-) OberMegaTrans (talk) 15:22, 9 November 2023 (UTC)" OberMegaTrans (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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