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* [https://meta.wikimedia.org Wikimedia] is the parent organization of the multi-lingual encyclopedia Wikipedia. Their [https://www.wikidata.org 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 [https://translatewiki.net 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.
 
* [https://meta.wikimedia.org Wikimedia] is the parent organization of the multi-lingual encyclopedia Wikipedia. Their [https://www.wikidata.org 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 [https://translatewiki.net 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.
 
* [https://www.coar-repositories.org COAR], Confederation of Open Access Repositories has [https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/new-release-of-the-coar-controlled-vocabulary-resource-type/ translated the controlled vocabulary used by repositories into many languages].
 
* [https://www.coar-repositories.org COAR], Confederation of Open Access Repositories has [https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/new-release-of-the-coar-controlled-vocabulary-resource-type/ translated the controlled vocabulary used by repositories into many languages].
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* [https://www.european-language-grid.eu/ European Language Grid] provides a lot of information on language technologies in Europe, including some on (machine) translation.
  
 
== Members of Translate Science ==
 
== Members of Translate Science ==

Revision as of 18:26, 11 April 2021

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

Translation groups

Language diversity groups

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

Education

Translation part of mission

Members of Translate Science

  • 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.

Translation services

  • Commercial translation services (not specially recommended ones, just ones we happened to find).
   * Peerwith
   * Enago
   * ulatus