Translation Task Force

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The Translation Task Force^[1] – brings high quality, easy to understand health information into as many languages as possible.

It was created as a joint venture between WikiProject Medicine, Wiki Project Med Foundation, Translators Without Borders and we have together translated over 1,300 articles in more than 90 languages!

Texts are translated where they are needed the most — currently: diseases, medications and drugs, anatomy, nutrition, sanitation, and women's health. To see our list of articles for translation check out: our summaries.

Last updated: April 2016
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News

2016

500 short articles ready for translation
Launch of offline medical apps in 10 languages.[2]

April

58 Vaccine articles live during April (165 total)
Rubric donated 9 articles in African and Indian languages on sanitation and preventable infectious disease!

March

30+ articles translated!
Wikimedia Blog: Wikipedia's coverage of essential vaccines is expanding

February

74 articles translated in 19 languages!
107 Vaccine articles live by February

January

For older news go to: this link...


	Full	Summaries
Year started	2011	2013
Article goal #	100	1000
Ready for translation	33	1,000
Language goal	50	100
Translations done	637	1,337
FA/GA translations	65	12
Needing integration	Done	4
		Last updated: 2016-06

Language should not be a barrier to
health information!

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Ways you can help edit

Community organization: We need Wikipedians to engage the community on the different Wikipedias.
Assessing content: We need local-language speakers to determine which articles need to be translated into the target language.
Translating: We are always on the look-out for dedicated translators to work directly with our content, especially in smaller languages!
Integration: Translated articles need to be integrated into local Wikipedias. This process is done manually and needs to be in harmony with existing local articles.
Posting jobs on Translators Without Borders website: We need people to manage languages. This involves posting new translation jobs on the TWB website.
Template installation: For translations to be more useful templates and modules should be installed. We need people with the technical know-how to help out.
Programming: Several of our processes are in need of simplification and many could be improved with bots.
Writing content for the translation project: Writing for translations may be slightly different from writing other articles on Wikipedia. If you are interested in improving articles contact James Heilman (jmh649gmail.com) or simply create a Wikipedia account and start editing.

Why help? edit

We're working together with Wikipedia Zero to spread knowledge where it is needed the most!

Health care site traffic comparison in July 2014. Light blue portions represent official Wikimedia Foundation data for all medical articles. Other data is estimated from SimilarWeb.^[1]

Wikipedia is the most used health care resource on the Internet−both by unique visitors and by pageviews. For all those interested in global health this is an opportunity to help bring high quality healthcare information to the world.

In the beginning effort primarily concentrated on 80 medical articles of global significance. In the month of February 2012 these pages in English received a total of 10.6 million page views.[3]

In 2014 we switched our efforts to a larger number of shorter articles as we believe translating more short articles rather than fewer long articles will have a greater impact. A more in depth breakdown can be found at popular pages of the translation taskforce

As of July 2014, the more than 500 full articles translated via this project received over 1.2 million pages views per month (see here) in their local languages.