1. Translators
Without
Borders
Simple
English
Program
Editor
Mee8ng

2. Agenda
• Who
we
are
/
what
we
do
• Accomplishments
• Wikipedia
80
x
80
Project
• Health
Educa8on
and
Training
for
Africa
(HEAT)
• Using
Acrolinx
IQ
• Medical
terminololgy
database
• Other
important
informa8on

3. Translators without Borders
is the world’s largest
community of
humanitarian translators
8,228,074

5. About
the
Simple
English
Program

6. Who
are
we?
• Sponsor
–
Val
Swisher
(TWB
Board
and
Execu8ve
CommiQee
member)
• Program
Manager
–
Gaela
Schlak
• Technology
–
Greg
Swisher
• Editors
–
17
ac8vely
involved
• Others
–
Addi8onal
volunteers

7. How
are
projects
assigned?
• We
maintain
a
list
of
editors
to
call
upon
when
needed.
• We
balance
the
number
of
resources
with
the
number
of
projects,
along
with
training
and
management
needs.
• Projects
are
assigned
based
on
editor
availability
and
required
skillset.

8. Systems
we
use
• Egnyte
–
File
storage
and
retrieval
• Acrolinx
–
Advanced
edi8ng
and
quality
control
• Considering
Basecamp
if
it
would
help
the
team

9. How
should
you
communicate
with
us?
• Val
Swisher
– Email
–
vals@contentrules.com
– Skype
-­‐
vswish
• Gaela
Schlak
– Email
-­‐
gaelas@contentrules.com
– Skype
–
gaela.schlak

10. When
should
you
communicate
with
us?
• You
are
available
for
a
project.
• You
are
on
a
project
and
have
just
become
unavailable.
• You
are
going
to
miss
a
deadline.
• You
have
ques8ons
or
concerns
about
your
content
or
project.

11. Projects
Completed
in
2012
• Wikipedia
80
x
80
(on-­‐going)
• Kenya
Health
Brochures
• AHILA
• Simple
English
Training
for
Nairobi
Translators
• Health
Educa8on
And
Training
(on-­‐going)
• Over
370,000
words
simplified

12. Projects
Scheduled
for
2013
• Wikipedia
80
x
80
• Health
Educa8on
And
Training
• Medical
Terminology
Database
• Others
to
come

13. Wikipedia
80
x
80

14. What
is
Wikipedia
80
x
80?
• Simplify
and
translate
the
80
most-­‐ocen
accessed
medical
ar8cles
on
Wikipedia
• Translate
the
simplified
ar8cles
into
80
languages
–
many
African
• Post
simplified
ar8cles
to
Simple
Wikipedia
(simple.wikipedia.org)

15. Why
Wikipedia?
• ~200
million
page
views
for
more
than
25,000
medical
ar8cles
• More
than
40
million
page
views
for
medica8on
ar8cles
each
month
• 50%
to
100%
of
physicians
use
Wikipedia
(most
frequently
used
source
by
junior
physicians
besides
Google)
• 35
to
70%
of
pharmacists
admit
to
its
use

16. Service
Providers
and
Wikipedia
• Movement
underway
to
provide
free
access
to
Wikipedia
to
everyone
who
has
a
capable
phone
in
the
developing
world.
• This
will
bring
the
most
important
informa8on
to
the
people
who
need
it
most
–
in
the
languages
they
can
understand.

17. Why
are
we
doing
it?
• Simplifying
English
saves
lives
– Makes
it
easier
for
ESL
readers
– More
accurate
and
simple
transla8ons
– Makes
mobile
delivery
possible

18. Simple
Wikipedia

20. Wikipedia
80
x
80
Workflow
1. Volunteer
Wikipedian
downloads
the
ar8cle
and
puts
it
into
.doc
or
.docx
format.
– References
and
Wikimedia
markup
lec
intact.
2. Gaela
no8fies
editor
and
provides
link
to
source
file.
– Link
will
have
a
folder
called
/source
files
and
a
folder
called
/edited
files

21. Wikipedia
80
x
80
Workflow
3. Editor
edits
– Turn
on
track
changes.
– First
pass
edit
–
simplify
as
much
as
possible.
– Run
Acrolinx
check.
– Make
suggested
Acrolinx
changes.
– Leave
the
references
and
markup
in
the
ar8cle,
unless
you
are
removing
the
sec8on.

22. Wikipedia
80
x
80
Workflow
4. Save
file
with
your
ini8als
in
the
filename.
– Eg.,
commoncold_gs.docx
5. Upload
file
to
/edited
files
folder.
6. Email
Gaela
that
you
are
done.
7. Physician
reviews
edits,
corrects
as
needed.
8. Wikipedian
uploads
file
to
Simple
Wikipedia.
9. File
delivered
to
transla8on
center.

23. Goals
• Target
6th-­‐8th
grade
reading
level.
• Ocen
will
involve
removing
medical
words
and
rewri8ng.
• Use
“The
Global
English
Style
Guide,”
by
John
Kohl
as
your
style
guide
for
global-­‐readiness.
• Currently
seeking
support
from
Simple
Wikipedia
community
on
addi8onal
guidelines.

24. Terminology
Examples
• Use
the
term
“person”
instead
of
“pa8ent”
• Acute
could
be
changed
to
"fast
in
onset"
• Adolescence
to
"person
between
12
and
18
years
old"
• Ambivalence
to
"a
person
who
does
not
really
care"

25. Pointers
Before
Acer
Syphilis
is
believed
to
Syphilis
is
thought
to
have
infected
12
have
infected
12
million
people
million
people
worldwide
in
1999.
worldwide
by
1999.
Changing
“in
1999”
to
“by
1999”
changes
the
meaning
of
the
sentence.
12
million
people
were
infected
with
syphilis
in
the
year
1999.
Many
more
were
infected
previous
to
that.

26. More
Pointers
Before
Acer
…decreasing
use
of
…people
not
using
[[condom]]s
to
protect
barrier
protec8on…
themselves
from
sexually
transmiQed
infec8ons.
When
we
are
looking
at
the
increasing
rate
of
something
we
need
to
aQribute
it
to
a
changing
rate
of
something
else
thus
the
key
term
"decreasing“.

27. Addi8onal
resources
• How
to
write
Simple
English
pages
– hQp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_pages
• Medicine/How
to
edit
– hQp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MEDHOW
• Common
Piualls
– hQp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MEDMOS#Common_piualls
• Diseases
and
Disorders
– hQp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:MEDMOS#Diseases_or_disorders_or_syndromes

28. Health
Educa8on
And
Training
(HEAT)

29. What
is
HEAT?
• Simplifying
the
English
for
five
medical
training
courses
originally
taught
in
Ethiopia.
• Each
training
course
has
approximately
10
modules.
(>
1,500
pages
total)
• Program
being
rolled
out
to
more
countries
in
Sub-­‐Saharan
Africa.

30. Why
are
we
doing
it?
• Grant
from
Open
University
• Aide
health
workers
throughout
Sub-­‐Saharan
Africa
with
medical
informa8on
in
Simple
English
• Transla8ng
courses
into
Swahili
• Looking
at
mobile
delivery

31. Current
stats
• 8
editors
over
the
last
6
months
• 5
books
lec
to
complete
• 74
files
remain
• Project
is
41%
complete
• Simplified
chapters
have
been
translated
and
delivered
to
Open
University

32. HEAT
workflow
• Book
assigned
to
editor
• Editor
downloads
files
• Turn
on
track
changes
• Edit
using
Acrolinx
• Save
files
/
upload
edited
files
• Tell
Gaela
(she
tells
the
transla8on
center)
• Transla8on
center
downloads
files

33. Using
Acrolinx
IQ

34. What
is
Acrolinx
IQ?
• Sophis8cated
content
op8miza8on
socware
• Flags
over
100
common
English
errors
• Based
on
Chicago
Manual
and
MS
Style
Guide
• Tuned
for
Global
English
• Highly
configurable
• Only
available
on
Windows
PCs

35. Why
are
we
using
it?
• Simplify
edi8ng
process
• Provide
consistency
• Catch
errors
we
might
otherwise
miss

36. How
are
we
using
it?
• User
socware
provided,
free
of
charge,
to
all
volunteer
editors
• Access
special
server
for
TWB
• Used
in
edi8ng
Wikipedia
and
HEAT
content
• Run
checks
before/during/acer
edit
• Make
sure
you
get
some
training

37. Medical
Terminology
Database

38. Goals
• Build
the
largest
Simplified
English
medical
terminology
database
available
• Link
preferred
and
deprecated
terminology
– Eg.,
auditory
hallucina8ons
vs.
hear
things
that
don’t
exist
• Team
has
not
been
formed
–
do
you
want
to
join?
• Does
not
require
a
Windows
PC

39. Other
Ways
You
Can
Help
• Grant
wri8ng
• Wikimedia
markup
• Other
tasks
for
Simple
English
program
• Fundraising
• Company
match
program
• Donate
J

40. Volunteer
signup
• hQps://adobeformscentral.com/?
f=FVlXXAH58LFXUFqTOE9P7A
(I
know,
that’s
a
terrible
URL!)
• Please
fill
it
out,
even
if
you
have
already
been
working
on
projects
• Know
others
who
want
to
volunteer?
Have
them
fill
it
out!

42. A
word
about
deadlines…
• Many
projects
do
not
have
“hard”
deadlines,
like
a
company.
• The
longer
we
take,
the
longer
cri8cal
medical
informa8on
remains
unavailable
to
the
people
who
need
it
most.
• Please
communicate!

43. What’s
Next?
• We
will
contact
you
by
email
when
we
have
ar8cles
in
the
queue.
• If
we
don’t
hear
from
you
acer
3
days,
we
will
reassign
the
ar8cles
to
another
editor.
• Some
projects
are
more
urgent
and
require
a
quicker
call
back.

44.
THANK
YOU.
THIS
PROJECT
WOULD
NOT
BE
A
SUCCESS
WITHOUT
THE
GENEROSITY
OF
YOUR
TIME!!!