Talk:Emerging strategic priorities/ESP 2 key questions/How can Wikipedians who do not speak local languages but have experience editing and building mature Wikipedias contribute to local language Wikipedias?

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  1. Even though many wikimedians experiensed with editing wiki content might not have extensive knowledge in any local language I think many might have contacts that do have. For example a wikimedian that knows someone that has been a volounter in a developing country but not has any experiense in editing wikis could help that person out to start translating articles. Translation groups could be formed that are headed by experienced wiki editors but where translation is done by people with knowledge in the particular language. The experiensed Wikimedian could create pages, provide support and further on to many translators. An opportunity that could arise from such collaborations if the group consists of people that has been volonters in developing countries would be that they can have contacts at the specific location that might be able to help with translation too, effectively localizing the translation to the country itself and creating an environment where actuall knowledgeproduction from within the area can eventually occur. --Dafer45 12:03, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Sometimes, a specialist user is only contributing to a small project, because that project is in his mother language. All specialist users that add good content are very valuable for Wikimedia projects, but the said type of specialist and his or her contributions often remain isolated and unrecognised because of the language barrier. Such users may be able to write understandable English or other major languages, but feel too insure in these languages to contribute to the major projects. Wikiprojects should not be created or operational locally, but at at meta, where all users with a specific field of expertise can join and communicate without having to be fluent in a particiular language. In this way specialist users at small projects can be pulled out of their isolation. Also, global wikiprojects will allow groups of users at several projects to cooperate in creating valuable content that can be added at several projects at the same time. Woudloper 23:49, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Unfortunately we lack skilled coders who would write applications to help with the technical stuff etc.. this is an aspect that needs (and can) be taken care off. There are technical users but too few with too little time. --Histolo2 23:23, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    1. What kind of technical stuff needs to be fixed? I have some experience in coding, mostly in low level c/c++ and not much webaimed languages but has to admit that it ain't clear to me at all in what way a coder could contribute to the project. Maybe because I haven't looked into it that much, but maybe it is not clear enough how coders can contribute. I mean, there is an edit tab at each page where contributors easily can edit articles, but if I want to help with the codebase, where do I go? I don't know if there is anything like a developer community, but if there is it maybe should be more openly advertised, and if not, maybe such a community should be created in some way. I am sure there is people who is willing to contribute in this way.--Dafer45 08:31, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Sadly, WMF projects have attracted a fair few people who don't, for one reason or another, wish us well. We have a lot of crosswiki vandals and some of them target small wikis with not a lot of daily activities seeing them as easy targets. Thankfully due to tools like CVN bots, the SWMT, global sysops, stewards and the kindness of the random stranger most of this gets dealt with. What experienced Wikipedians can do is maybe spend 15 minutes a week and look at some of the recent changes of the small wikis. Most vandalism is either gibberish, obvious or in a major language. Experienced Wikipedians can also help mentor new administrators and communities as they grow. This can be showing them the WMF wikiway but also encouraging them to develop their own community. fr33kman -simpleWP- 07:11, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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