Global Voices is a volunteer-powered multilingual translation community that reports on issues from various blogospheres into English by aggregating, translating, and contextualizing content. It has over 500 active volunteers who have translated over 10,000 posts from January to August 2011 across 20 active language sites, with 15 additional sites in beta. The organization needs more translators and currently has the most active volunteers translating into English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, and Italian.
Global Voices Lingua: Volunteer-Powered Multilingual Translation Community
1. www.globalvoicesonline.org www.metamorphosis.org.mk Global Voices Lingua: Volunteer-Powered Multilingual Translation Community Filip Stojanovski Metamorphosis Foundation & Global Voices Online ProZ.com Regional Conference: Skopje 2011 Conference for Translators and Interpreters from the Balkans and SEE countries October 1, 2011, Skopje, Macedonia
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17. More Statistics? Language/Active translators Daily average Monthly average Total in 2011 Arabic – 16 1.2 38 299 Chinese – 12 2.65 79.5 636 Dutch – 10 0.70 22 177 French – 48 8.24 247.25 1978 German – 6 0.30 8.4 67 Greek – 15 3.48 105 628 Italian – 30 2.5 72.5 580 Japanese – 21 0.75 22 177 Macedonian – 18 1.35 40.5 324 Malagasy – 12 3.65 109.5 875 Polish – 15 0.85 25 197 Portuguese – 21 2.5 74 595 Russian – 12 1.3 34 271 Serbian – 9 0.75 22 176 Spanish – 70 12.20 366.25 2930 English 26 785 6285
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19. Thank you for your attention! For more information www.globalvoicesonline.org @globalvoices mk.globalvoicesonline.org sq.globalvoicesonline.org @gvomk www.metamorphosis.org.mk @fmeta [email_address] @razvigor
Notas do Editor
GV is made of people, lots of volunteers and people who love it. Also a good time to mention the summit if you want and hwo awesome they are.
another 'problem' screen. Here the solution will be the Lingua translation project
introduce lingua and how it works generally, next come several example sites t o show the diversity of languages
an example site to show the diversity of languages (move quickly through these)
an example site to show the diversity of languages (move quickly through these)
an example site to show the diversity of languages (move quickly through these)
this is a silly simplified map of how our trranslations occur. GV English, RV and Advocacy all get translated onto the local lingua sites
this is an out of date list of languages we translate to. Tell them there are many new ones!
A slide presenting the profile of Lingua translator – which can be used as a reference in a CV, and also provides SEO/visibility via search engines thanks to GVO's high Google rating