Groups interested in translations

This page lists group we know of that work on translations. Feel free to add the ones we missed.

Translation groups

Translating Open Agriculture Research to Local Language, especially Ethiopian local languages.
Translations Journal, A digital online journal for translators, interpreters, and interested friends of the translation industry. Hidden are great link collections from the early days of the internet.
Translators without Borders is a non-profit working towards a world where knowledge knows no language barriers.
Reddit Translator is a subreddit where people help translate texts.

Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.

Science in School aims to promote inspiring science teaching across Europe. For this reason, we publish articles online in several European languages.
Scientix works on science education in Europe and translates its materials in many European languages.
Doing It Together Science, which ended summer 2019, had a The Citizen Science Translation Hub.
Astronomy Translation Network of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is translating education and public outreach on astronomy.

Wikimedia is the parent organization of the multi-lingual encyclopedia Wikipedia. Their Wikidata database would be a good place to store information on translations in a way wikipedians can add and edit. They have a good system to translate the software of Wikipedia and many related projects into many languages. Maybe a similar system could be useful for collaborative translating works of science.
COAR, Confederation of Open Access Repositories has translated the controlled vocabulary used by repositories into many languages.
European Language Grid provides a lot of information on language technologies in Europe, including some on (machine) translation.

AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research and stimulates the translation of scientific articles and abstracts. About 2000 local languages are spoken in Africa.
The consultancy group Access 2 Perspectives works on language diversity.
Whose Knowledge: A global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
The Open Climate Knowledge is working on a WikiData-based system that helps with reading difficult text by translating important terms.
The open post-publication Grassroots Review system plans to link to available translations on the review pages.

Commercial translation services (not specially recommended ones, just ones we happened to find).

   * Peerwith
   * Enago
   * ulatus