Project Lingua
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| Formation | January 2007 |
| Purpose/focus | Open lines of communication with non-english speaking bloggers by translating articles from Global Voices Online |
| Official languages | Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malagasy, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili |
| Parent organization | Global Voices Online |
| Volunteers | 300 |
| Website | globalvoicesonline.org/lingua |
Project Lingua is an online translation community formed in 2007 with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen media project Global Voices Online from English into other languages, opening lines of communication between bloggers across the world. The project currently translates into 30 different languages, and incorporates an estimated 300 volunteer translators and translation editors. Along with the Cucumis project and the Wikipedia's own translation projects in every language, such as the Wikipedia:ECHO, Project Lingua is considered one of the largest volunteer-based online translation communities in the world.[1][2][3][4]
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[edit] Origin of the Project
Project Lingua began as a community-based initiative by Taiwanese blogger Portnoy Zheng, who started translating Global Voices articles into Chinese as early as September, 2005.[5] This initial idea became a project of its own at the Global Voices Summit in December 2006, where it was given the name "Lingua". The first official Lingua sites, launched by June 2007, were Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), Bangla, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese and French. The project has since grown rapidly in size and scope. As of November 2008, there were 16 languages. More language groups are upcoming, including Dutch, Indonesian, Nepali, Polish, Russian, Swahili, and Urdu. As of May 2011, there were 30 languages, including rare ones, such as Aymara.
[edit] Collaborations
Project Lingua has content-sharing/link partnerships (formal and informal) with news sites and other online organizations, such as:
- Arabic: Al Jazeera Talk
- Bangla: Biborton Bangla (news/entertainment site, literary magazine)
- Chinese: China Times, Memedia ("Strawberry") (news site), Peopo (Taiwanese citizen news site hosted by the Taiwan Broadcasting Service)[6]
- Italian: Agoravox Italia, Rainews24
- French: Rue 89, Cucumis, Rezo.net
- Portuguese: Google News Portuguese / Google Notícias Brasil and Mozambican newspaper A Verdade
- Spanish: Canal Solidario [7], Google News Spanish / Google Noticias España, Periodismo Ciudadano
[edit] References
- ^ Solana Larsen, "Lingua: The Making of a Global Online Translation Project, Global Voices Online, Nov. 16, 2008.
- ^ Chris Salzberg, "Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices," Translation Journal, July 2008.
- ^ Ethan Zuckerman, "Language and translation on Global Voices," My heart's in Accra, December 16, 2006.
- ^ Leslie Berlin, "A Web That Speaks Your Language," The New York Times, May 16, 2009.
- ^ Paula Góes, "Portnoy Zheng: The blogger who inspired the world to talk together," Global Voices Online, February 10th, 2008.
- ^ "2008 PeoPo Citizen Journalism Forum to prospect the vision of citizen journalism in Taiwan", Wikinews, April 26, 2008.
- ^ Juan Arellano, "Global Voices in Spanish and Canal Solidario," Global Voices Online, April 10th, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Project Lingua site
- Posting statistics for the Lingua GV translation project
- Recent translations
- OpenTranslationTools: Global Voices Lingua
- GVsummit08 Budapest: Portnoy about Translation and the Multilingual Web
- (Albanian) Global Voices in Albanian
- (Aymara) Global Voices in Aymara
- (Arabic) Global Voices in Arabic
- (Bengali) Global Voices in Bangla
- (Chinese) Global Voices in Chinese (Simplified)
- (Chinese) Global Voices in Chinese (Traditional)
- (Dutch) Global Voices in Dutch
- (Greek) Global Voices in Greek
- (French) Global Voices in French
- (German) Global Voices in German
- (Hindi) Global Voices in Hindi
- (Hungarian) Global Voices in Hungarian
- (Indonesian) Global Voices in Indonesian
- (Italian) Global Voices in Italian
- (Japanese) Global Voices in Japanese
- (Korean) Global Voices in Korean
- (Macedonian) Global Voices in Macedonian
- (Malagasy) Global Voices in Malagasy
- (Persian) Global Voices in Persian
- (Polish) Global Voices in Polish
- (Portuguese) Global Voices in Portuguese
- (Russian) Global Voices in Russian
- (Serbian) Global Voices in Serbian
- (Spanish) Global Voices in Spanish
- (Swahili) Global Voices in Swahili
