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The '''ICANNWiki Translation Initiative''' is a long-term project to enhance global understanding of key concepts by providing content in Spanish and Chinese. ICANNWiki is partnering with organizations across Asia and South America to build standalone, interconnected wikis in these languages, with the goal of expanding into Arabic, French and Swahili by 2020. Providing content in languages other than English unites our community in a shared sense of understanding. Outside of simultaneous interpretation available at conferences, our initiative provides a service rarely seen within the Internet governance sphere: factual, unbiased content in multiple languages.
The '''ICANNWiki Translation Initiative''' is a long-term project to enhance global understanding of key concepts by providing content in Spanish and Chinese. ICANNWiki is partnering with organizations across Asia and South America to build standalone, interconnected wikis in these languages, with the goal of expanding into Arabic, French and Swahili by 2020. Providing content in languages other than English unites our community in a shared sense of understanding. Outside of simultaneous interpretation available at conferences, our initiative provides a service rarely seen within the Internet governance sphere: factual, unbiased content in multiple languages.
== How to Start Translation in Your Language ==
== How to Start a Translation Initiative in Your Language ==
Establish interest within your community
'''Establish interest within your community'''
* Ensuring that your community is interested in learning and translating Internet governance content means translating can be sustainable and useful
* Ensuring that your community is interested in learning and translating Internet governance content means translating can be sustainable and useful. When everyone is interested the project can be sustained for a longer period of time.
* Bringing others on board means that one person alone will not be responsible for the success of the project
* Bringing others on board means that one person alone will not be responsible for the success of the project
Determine group strengths
'''Determine group strengths'''
* Check which skills your participants have: are they experts on a topic, but not the strongest when it comes to multilingualism? Consider pairing this person with someone with less subject knowledge and more translations know-how.
* Check which skills your participants have: are they experts on a topic, but not the strongest when it comes to multilingualism? Consider pairing this person with someone with less subject knowledge and more translation know-how.
'''Draft a short proposal'''
* To understand the scope of your project, spend some time drafting a short proposal to outline its needs
* Sample sections could include: how many articles do you wish to translate and in what time frame? Is there a need for a budget? What are some partner organizations that could help grow the project? How are you going to determine community interest?
'''Contact ICANNWiki'''
* Designate a point person for communication purposes and submit your proposal to staff@icannwiki.com
* Our team will evaluate your proposal and contact you if we wish to move forward with your initiative
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