Welcome to Wiki Cari Earthweek's Wiki Translate the Environment

Wiki Translate the Environment is a project of Wiki Caribbean, AfroCROWD, News On Wiki NOW and partners!

When: 1st Earthweek event Saturday April 17, 3:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT

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Topic: Wiki Cari Earthweek: Nordic Caribbean Connections Editing Hours

Time: Apr 17, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Details: We are launching at the dawn of Wikipedia Day 2021, Wikipedia's 20th birthday. Our aim: translate articles on the environment that may be in one language but not another. During this event, we want to celebrate Wikipedia and the Wiki Community as well as one of it's newest User Groups, Wikimedians of the Caribbean. We wanted to find a way to celebrate Wikipedia in a way that reflects the richness of the Caribbean while also identifying an area that touches every nation in the Caribbean and it's diaspora. With the growth of climate change and hurricanes and other weather related events mounting in recent years, understanding the environment is more important than ever. Along with this also, we want to highlight the vast natural resources and botanical diversity of the region as well. Finally, the people and cultures of the Caribbean and those who have worked to preserve the natural identities of the islands will come into view.

This event marks the launch of this effort which culminated on Earthday, April 22, 2021.
We plan to have speakers and hold a brief navigation of Wikipedia editing and hear from Wikipedians in the environmental community of the Caribbean with guest from the environmental community elsewhere.
You don't have to speak more than one language, but the translation component is one we hope will be key.

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General Agenda:

Introduction to Wiki Translate the Environment
Speakers
Exploring edit-a-thons vs Translatathons
Editing time
Discussions
Sharing time

=List of articles to be explore for translation or improvement/ editing

More: for more ideas and help editing Wikipedia go to Wiki Caribbean Earthweek

Useful / Advanced support

The best way to get started at this event is to talk in person with one of the trainers at the events. As advanced preparation, anyone might select a Wikipedia article which interests them and which they might like to translate at the event. The best way to learn Wikipedia's method for translation is to come to the event, listen to the presentation, then ask for assistance if you need it.

If you want to read technical documentation on your own then click "show" to the right and read the following guides.

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How to find the list of articles in which a Wikipedia article already exists

Suppose that one has a Wikipedia article in one language, and wants to see the other languages in which that Wikipedia article exists. Here is the process:

Go to any Wikipedia article in any language
In almost all cases, if the article exists in another language, the name of that language will be on the left side of the screen
1. Click the name of the language to see the translation of the article in that language
2. Ask for assistance if you go further than this, because a person with experience will be able to quickly confirm what any new user finds
On the left side of the screen there is a menu. Look for "Wikidata item" or a translation of that phrase
1. If there is no statement "Wikidata item", then go to Wikidata and search for the article's name in any language
2. If there is still no result, that article has not been translated. Start a translation!
3. After publishing a translation create a Wikidata item for the concept. List the original article there and your translation so that they will be interconnected. Ask for assistance with this if Wikidata looks confusing.
If you find a Wikidata item for a concept, then the Wikidata item will list all language Wikipedia articles covering that concept.
Use the Wikidata item to get the link to other languages for that item

How to find articles that need translation

These are the most common methods:

1. Use Wikipedia Gap Finder (you can customize your search): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend

2. Using the English Wikipedia, find an article that interests you. Then, look to the left of the page, in the gray bar beneath the Wikipedia globe. At the tail end of that list of links, you'll see "Languages," and links to all of the languages that also have that article. Languages are spelled in that language's alphabet or phonemes. For example, you won't see "Japanese" or "French," you'll see "日本語" and "Français".

Is the language you're studying listed? If so, click the language to see the same article in that language. You can compare the two articles to get a sense of what one has that the other does not. If not, that means there's no corresponding article in that language.

3. Head to the Wikipedia in the language you are studying. In the search bar, type: WP:GA (this will also work with Wikipedias using non-Roman alphabets). You'll be taken to a list of "Good Articles" on that language's Wikipedia, the best articles it has to offer. (You may need to find the page that lists them, if it's separate). Find a Good Article on your target language's Wikipedia. Check the bar on the side to see if there is a corresponding article in English. If there isn't, great! You can translate the article into English, and contribute it to the English Wikipedia.

Sometimes, the article exists, but is very short. That's OK, too. However, if both languages have well-developed pages on the topic, you will want to find another article. It can be very challenging to add content to an already-developed article.

Try the tool

You can access the tool from Special:ContentTranslation from Wikipedia in any language. Accessing it for the first time will also enable the tool for that wiki.

Content translation is available [[<tvar|beta>Special:MyLanguage/Beta Features</>|as a beta feature]] in all Wikipedias for logged-in users. Once it is enabled, you will see additional entry points to easily start a translation from your "contributions" page or from the list of languages of Wikipedia articles when they are missing in your language.