Project Lingua, or just Lingua is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006 with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen media project Global Voices Online from English into other languages, opening lines of distributed communication between bloggers across the world. The project currently translates into tens of different languages, and incorporates an active team of hundreds of 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, Lingua is considered one of the largest volunteer-based online translation communities in the world.
Video Project Lingua
Origin of the 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. 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, Farsi, Spanish, Portuguese and French. The project has since grown rapidly in size and scope. Global Voices is translated in all the top languages used on the internet but also include under-represent and indigenous languages, such as Aymara.Translators apply via the Translation Application Form.
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Collaborations
Lingua has content-sharing/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)
- Italian: Agoravox Italia, Rainews24, La Stampa
- French: Rue 89, Cucumis, Rezo.net
- Portuguese: Mozambican newspaper A Verdade
- Spanish: Canal Solidario, Periodismo Ciudadano, El Colombiano
Lingua has also partnered with like minded organisations to provide translations. In August 2012, Lingua launched a collaborative effort to translate the Declaration of Internet Freedom providing the text in 31 languages.
References
External links
- Lingua site
- OpenTranslationTools: Global Voices Lingua
- GVsummit08 Budapest: Portnoy about Translation and the Multilingual Web
- (in Albanian) Global Voices in Albanian
- (in Amharic) Global Voices in Amharic
- (in Arabic) Global Voices in Arabic
- (in Aymara) Global Voices in Aymara
- (in Bengali) Global Voices in Bangla
- (in Bulgarian) Global Voices in Bulgarian
- (in Burmese) Global Voices in Burmese
- (in Catalan) Global Voices in Catalan
- (in Czech) Global Voices in Czech
- (in Chinese) Global Voices in Chinese (Simplified)
- (in Chinese) Global Voices in Chinese (Traditional)
- (in Danish) Global Voices in Danish
- (in Dutch) Global Voices in Dutch
- (in Esperanto) Global Voices in Esperanto
- (in English) Global Voices Online in English
- (in Persian) Global Voices in Farsi
- (in Tagalog) Global Voices in Filipino
- (in French) Global Voices in French
- (in German) Global Voices in German
- (in Greek) Global Voices in Greek
- (in Hebrew) Global Voices in Hebrew
- (in Hindi) Global Voices in Hindi
- (in Hungarian) Global Voices in Hungarian
- (in Indonesian) Global Voices in Indonesian
- (in Italian) Global Voices in Italian
- (in Japanese) Global Voices in Japanese
- (in Khmer) Global Voices in Khmer
- (in Korean) Global Voices in Korean
- (in Macedonian) Global Voices in Macedonian
- (in Malagasy) Global Voices in Malagasy
- (In Nubian) Global Voices in Nubian
- (in Polish) Global Voices in Polish
- (in Portuguese) Global Voices in Portuguese
- (in Russian) Global Voices in Russian
- (in Serbian) Global Voices in Serbian
- (in Spanish) Global Voices in Spanish
- (in Swahili) Global Voices in Swahili
- (in Swedish) Global Voices in Swedish
- (in Turkish) Global Voices in Turkish
- (in Urdu) Global Voices in Urdu
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