https://wiki-dev.creativecommons.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Global_Melt%2FMultilingualism 2026-10-05T04:50:23Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.9 https://wiki-dev.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Global_Melt/Multilingualism&diff=48134&oldid=prev 2011-03-29T07:35:22Z

<p>Created page with &quot;Multi-lingual Communities It&#039;s super complex problem. Technical tools don&#039;t solve everything, much has to do with attitude and what is chosen as priority for problem-solving. Th...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Multi-lingual Communities<br /> <br /> It&#039;s super complex problem. Technical tools don&#039;t solve everything, much has to do with attitude and what is chosen as priority for problem-solving. The dignity of participants or community members who don&#039;t speak Lingua France is crucial. There must be respect for other voices and assumption that they have something important to contribute to your movement.<br /> <br /> Participants should be involved in the translation, and people should be made to feel their voice is important. Too often, the focus is on translating from most-used languages into smaller, rather than other way around.<br /> <br /> Challenges:<br /> <br /> 1. Building international online or offline communities across multiple languages<br /> <br /> Solutions:<br /> <br /> - Choosing a Lingua Franca is what most organizations do. Many people drawn to global movements speak more than one language.<br /> - Reaching out in to communities where another languages is spoken, bringing people into a global community.<br /> Training of trainers program, they can translate, further the knowledge.<br /> <br /> - Email group, forum, or chat translation<br /> <br /> Issues:<br /> <br /> - While this is convenient, it can be very limiting for an organization with goals to reach into underrepresented regions or communities.<br /> <br /> Challenges: <br /> <br /> 2. Facilitating the translation of software, website content, online communication<br /> <br /> Solutions:<br /> <br /> - Human networks and volunteers<br /> - Clear ongoing documentation of tool or text changes<br /> - Facilitating nuanced translation for local context<br /> - Develop clear workflow for translation<br /> - Translation of meta-data<br /> - Translations of multimedia<br /> - Translation memory, automated translation option (where it works)<br /> <br /> Challenges:<br /> <br /> 3. Facilitating multi-lingual participation during real life events<br /> <br /> Solutions:<br /> <br /> -Really important to do have excellent documentation before, during, and after for people to review along the way. Use of graphics is great.<br /> - Agree on Lingua Franca (one or more)<br /> - Real time translation by professionals or volunteers<br /> - Different tracks in different languages - wrap ups for the different tracks<br /> - Identify multiple crossover language speakers<br /> - Real time, text based translations (IRC, social media, email, chat, machine translation - maybe real time video closed caption?)<br /> - In the offline context, need to document (CD, book) for all participants, which can be translated. Boxes of materials to be taken other places.<br /> <br /> <br /> Observations: <br /> <br /> - Professional or volunteer translation, different benefits and constraints<br /> - Difficulty of Creative Commons license when it comes to translation (derivative works).<br /> - Even in wiki-culture people sometimes demand formal review cycles for translation, different from original authorship.<br /> - People are hesitant to ask for translation - even in our own session no one asked to know what was said in different language.<br /> <br /> Tools?<br /> <br /> - Could there be a template for excellent and simple event documentation that was easy to translate?<br /> <br /> (ENDS)</div>

Michelle Thorne