Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation

Medical Translation Project

Welcome to the medical translation project. Our goal is to spread translations of high quality medical content into as many languages as possible. Medical translation – English Translation TaskForce Bulgarian Portal Full article list (English) Simple article list (English)

The Translation Task Force is a collaborative effort begun in 2011 to first improve health care's most important topics in English followed by translation into as many other languages as possible, one of the absolute major or which is Bulgarian. It is an undertaking initiated by WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia Project Med Foundation, and Translators Without Borders. Wiki Project Med Foundation and Translators Without Borders are both supporting organizations of, and connected with each other through, Healthcare Information For All by 2015. A complete list of languages in which Wikipedia exists related to the number of speakers of said language can be found here

Process

Our goal is to translate the ~100 most important medical articles into as many languages as possible. We are also translating summaries of a larger number of less key articles.

A flow diagram illustrating the article flow process of the WP:MED journal collaboration and translation project

We currently have 33 articles ready to be translated in both full and simplified versions. And we have an addition 45 simplified articles. If you are interested in translating an article please email Enrique Cavalitto enrique at proz dot com. If you are interested in improving articles prior to translation please contact Doc James or simply create a Wikipedia account and start editing.

Translating the articles to Bulgarian

The translation will take place from the full or simplified English edition of the articles and:

• Will be done in Translators without Borders's translation center, powered by ProZ.com
• A translation center profile has been created for Wikipedia with James Heilman as contact person.
• The translation center includes FAQs and user manual

Adding articles into the Bulgarian WP

Ideally this will be taken care of by local Bulgarian Wikipedian. Instructions on how to add articles is here (including the user name and password to access the TWB website.) Additional instructions on how to translate into Bulgarian can be found here (incomplete July, 2014).

What you can do

Bulgarian

1. Mark simple articles Do translate or Don't translate at the List of simplified articles & List of full articles
2. A list of articles to be integrated is available below

Integrations

This page is a directory of articles translated into Bulgarian by Translators Without Borders on behalf of Wikiproject Medicine and Wikiproject Medicine - Translation Taskforce. Each article needs to be integrated with any article that previously exists, and should not replace it unless the older article does not include any additional information. Articles should be merged with older articles when applicable.

The English articles have been judged worthy of at least Good Article (GA) status and are of high quality and have also been checked by a medical doctor: James Heilman before being sent to translation. This effort does not intend to undermine the work on other language Wikipedias, but to complement it and give a high quality base article that can be built upon.

To get involved please add your name at the applicable article to take a role of (lead) integrator for this article, and change the status from Translated to Integrating. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch on my talk page or through e-mail, and I will get in touch with you as fast as I can. Once the article is finished change the note to Done, and don't forget to update the main page with a link to the Bulgarian article.

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Thanks, CFCF (беседа) 07:40, 23 юли 2014 (UTC)

Articles

The following articles have been translated, but have not yet been integrated into the Bulgarian Wikipedia.

In progress

Translation	Alternative names	Main article	Status	Integrator	Date complete
Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation/Tuberculosis	ТБЦ (TB) MTB Туберкулозата Туберкулоза	Туберкулоза	Translated	Izvora	23 юли 2014
Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation/Meningitis	-	Менингит	Translated	-	-
Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation/Lung cancer	Рак на белите дробове	Рак на белия дроб	Translated	-	-
Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation/Multiple sclerosis	Множествената склероза MC MS	Множествена склероза	Translated	DON'T/FA	-
Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation/Lower back pain	Lumbago Лумбагото болка в кръста	Лумбаго	In place Needs checking	-	-
Уикипедия:Медицина/Translation/Epilepsy	Епилепсията епиламбано	Епилепсия	Translated	-	-

International

1. We need local Wikipedians to indicate in a table which articles should and should not be translated.
2. We have a list of articles in English that are ready to be translated into other languages here
3. Many English articles are still in need of improvement and there is much work left that can be done by non-medical editors including improving sections on the history of the disease or its social and cultural significance (this can be done based on books found via Google books).

People involved

If you are interested in the international arm of this project please add yourself to the list of people involved along with your languages abilities. If you are interested in helping out with the Bulgarian translation and integration process add your name here:

Reasons to become involved

Wikipedia is the most used health care resource on the Internet both by unique visitors and by pageviews. For all those interested in global health this is an opportunity to help bring high quality healthcare information to the world. The English Wikipedia has come far in creating high quality, well-sourced articles, and spreading these to Bulgarian and other languages will further the cause of free knowledge.

The effort is primarily concentrating on 80 top importance medical articles of global significance. Currently they are put together as a en:WP:Book in English at en:Book:Health care and in simple English at here. In the month of February 2012 these pages in English received a total of 10.6 million page views.[1] A more in depth breakdown can be found at popular pages of the translation taskforce

A comparison of unique visitors for Wikipedia's medical content versus that of other popular health sites. Aug 2012

A comparison of pageviews for Wikipedia's medical content versus that of other healthcare sites. Aug 2012

Mentions by the press

• "Translators fight the fatal effects of the language gap" The Guardian, April 11, 2012
• "Book That Plagiarized From Wikipedia Is Pulled From Market", New York Times, June 12, 2012
• "Leveraging the Web to Overcome Challenges in the Developing World", EContent Magazine, July 5, 2012
• "Translating Health Content Without Borders", Global Voices, August 30, 2012
• "UCSF First U.S. Medical School to Offer Credit For Wikipedia Articles", USCF online, September 26, 2013
• "Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit" The New York Times, September 29, 2013
• "Should I be getting health information from Wikipedia", The Atlantic, October 1, 2013
• "Doctors' #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia", The Atlantic, March 5, 2014

Progress

In 2013 1.92M words were translated, which is equivalent to a donation of $384,440 from TWB.