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Andrew, Val and Lori will present the work they are doing to help create a people-ready, global-ready health information resource in Wikipedia. The project involves working with physicians and the Wikimedia foundation to identify important health information articles in Wikipedia by looking at usage statistics from the majority world, especially Africa. These articles are then edited to simple English standards using a combination of technology and professional editors. The goal is to simplify the text whilst retaining the correctness and relevance of the critical health information. As well as making these articles easier to understand by English as a Second Language readers, the editing process also prepares the content to be more easily translated. Translators without Borders is providing a platform for volunteer translators across the planet to translate the articles into their own language. In a new initiative Translators without Borders is training a whole new community of translators in Nairobi who are now developing skills and experience in medical translation. These translators are paid by non-profit organizations who task TWB with providing life-saving content in local languages. Learn more about this project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_Task_Force
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Content Saves Lives
From The Guardian (search “dirty little secret liberia”)
© www.aubreywade.com
What Charles and Dorris need:
Content that works
… you are the content professionals!
Wikipedia 80 x 80 Project
• Take the 80 most often used medical articles on Wikipedia.org
• Simplify the English – vetted by physician
• Translate into 80 languages
Why Wikipedia?
• ~200 million page views for more than 25,000 medical articles
• More than 40 million health information page views per month
• >50% of physicians and pharmacists use Wikipedia
Acrolinx for Simple Wikipedia
• Basic Wikipedia Style Checking
• People-Ready Health Terminology
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BeforeSchizophrenia (/ˌskɪtsɵˈfrɛniə/ or /ˌskɪtsɵˈfriːniə/) is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness. Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes strange thinking and feelings.[1] Many people who have this illness hear things that do not exist (hallucinations). They have fears and suspicions that do not make sense (paranoia). They might believe in things that are strange and senseless (delusions). They might speak and think in a way that does not make sense to other people.
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Results• 18 articles simplified to-date
• All posted at simple.wikipedia.org
Yoruba
Kinyarwanda
Telugu
Norwegian
Urdu
Chinese
Portuguese
German
Spanish
French
Russian
Italian
Armenian
Arabic
Dari
Dutch
Czech
Serbian
Content Rules Editors
18 down, 62 to go!
Editors and Writers Welcome
Today, Translators without Borders is the world’s largest community of humanitarian translators
7.5 million words
2587 active translators
70 volunteer staff
Working into 257 language pairs
91 non-profits
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18 months later
Zafen built 1,000 more homes
Today’s Translator Training Centre
You can help!
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