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for health information!

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What's happening

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We have an offline version of our healthcare content. Download the app and access all this content when there's no Internet. (other languages)

Last updated: April 2016    
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News

2016

• 500 short articles ready for translation
• Launch of offline medical apps in 10 languages.[1]

April

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• 58 Vaccine articles live during April (165 total)
• Rubric donated 9 articles in African and Indian languages on sanitation and preventable infectious disease!

March

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• 30+ articles translated!
• Wikimedia Blog: Wikipedia's coverage of essential vaccines is expanding

February

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• 74 articles translated in 19 languages!
• 107 Vaccine articles live by February

January

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For older news go to: this link...

	Full	Summaries
Year started	2011	2013
Article goal #	100	1000
Ready for translation	33	>1,700
Language goal	50	100
Translations done	637	1,337
FA/GA translations	65	12
Needing integration	Done	4
		Last updated: 2016-06

Get involved

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Community organization

We need Wikipedians to engage the community on the different Wikipedias.

Assessing content

We need local-language speakers to determine which articles need to be translated into the target language.

Translating

We are always on the look-out for dedicated translators to work directly with our content, especially in smaller languages!

Posting jobs on Translators Without Borders website

We need people to manage languages. This involves posting new translation jobs on the TWB website.

Integration

Translated articles need to be integrated into local Wikipedias. This process is done manually and needs to be in harmony with existing local articles.

Template installation

For translations to be more useful templates and modules should be installed. We need people with the technical know-how to help out.

Programming

Several of our processes are in need of simplification and many could be improved with bots.

Writing content for the translation project

Writing for translations may be slightly different from writing other articles on Wikipedia. If you are interested in improving articles contact James Heilman (jmh649gmail.com) or simply create a Wikipedia account and start editing.

Why help?

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We're working together with Wikipedia Zero to spread knowledge where it is needed the most!

Health care site traffic comparison in July 2014. Light blue portions represent official Wikimedia Foundation data for all medical articles. Other data is estimated from SimilarWeb.

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.

In the beginning effort primarily concentrated on 80 medical articles of global significance. In the month of February 2012 these pages in English received a total of 10.6 million page views.

In 2014 we switched our efforts to a larger number of shorter articles as we believe translating more short articles rather than fewer long articles will have a greater impact. A more in depth breakdown can be found at popular pages of the translation taskforce

As of July 2014, the more than 500 full articles translated via this project received over 1.2 million pages views per month in their local languages.

Notes

1.^ Also known as the "Medical Translation Project"

This project has partly been funded by Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants
and partly by personal contribution from Dr. James Heilman