Wikidata:Translators' noticeboard/Archive/2017/05
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Requesting community review of place translations
As part of my work at Mapbox, we're sourcing professional translations of world place names and donating the data to Wikidata. Our goal would be translate major places in the world to all major world languages and over 20,000 missing place label translations have already been sourced and uploaded over the last 2 months using the special account user:planemad_mapbox. While we have an internal process to check every translation for quality by a native language speaker, it would be amazing to ensure they run through another layer of review by expert Wikidata translators for a final check.
As a first step, it would be great to get interested translators to add their name to User:Planemad mapbox/World places translation project#Community reviewers. There are 32 languages in the list as of now, and there are around 200-4000 translations in each that would need to be checked, most of them in Asian languages. What other channels could be used to reach out to the translator community? What would be the best mechanism to organise such an effort, would a spreadsheet work? --Planemad (talk) 12:56, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Planemad I think your message should be posted on the various Wikidata:Project chat (in the different languages). Doing that, it will be displayed widely. Pamputt (talk) 20:36, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
- Done, thanks!--Planemad (talk) 08:13, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Can the page Wikidata:WikiProject Roads/Germany/Bundesautobahn be shared. There were problems in the headline. --Labant (talk) 21:26, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
