Wikipedia:WikiProject Echo

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to other-language Wikipedias. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope and goals 3 Parentage 4 Descendant WikiProjects 5 Similar WikiProjects 6 Participants 7 Structure

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WikiProject Echo

[edit] Scope and goals

While the English Wikipedia is the oldest and largest one, many of the other-language Wikipedias contain information not yet found in the English 'pedia. The scope of this project is to find information present in some other Wikipedia but not here, and repeat ('echo') it here. Generally, the information has to be translated in the process.

Given that this may be a very broad scope on other-language Wikipedias, it may be worthwhile to start from their Featured Articles (or equivalent) first.

[edit] Parentage

None.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias
• Spanish Translation of the Week
• Translation into English
• Featured articles in other languages

[edit] Participants

• User: False Prophet Rough basic French, put improving.
• Radiant_>|< (nl:User:Radiant!)
• Ngb (es:Usuario:Ngb)
• User:Circeus (fr:Utilisateur:Circéus, es:Usuario:Circeus, de:Benutzer:Circeus)
• User:Jondel,es:Usuario:Jondelfr:Utilisateur:Jondel,ja:利用者:Jondel.
• Deryck C. - the very original one

Deryck C. - the esperanza-enriched one (zh:user:Deryck Chan)

• Dvyost (fr:Utilisateur:Dvyost)
• FinalWish
• Palnatoke (da:Bruger:Palnatoke)
• Gren (fr:Utilisateur:Grenavitar) — Check here for mistakes
• Alensha (hu:User:Alensha)
• Hoziron (he:משתמש:אוקף)
• DLand (he:משתמש:DLand)
• JonMoore (eo:Vikipediisto:Sroterpomkapo)
• DaGizza ^{Chat (c)} (it:Utente:DaGizza), (hi:सदस्य:DaGizza) (Also have accounts on French, Latin, Sanskrit -same name)
• User:Link the windwaker Knows basic indonesian
• Sj (de, sw, nah)
• Lacatosias (it:Utente:Lacatosias)
• Ariedartin (Bilingual in English, Simplified Chinese and some Traditional Chinese)
• OrbitOne Native in English, Moderate Danish
• Amir85 Advance English, native in Persian, basic German
• OneEuropeanHeart (ca, de, eo, es, fr, it, pt, sv)
• Witty lama (French).
• Fuhghettaboutit Translated two Spanish artículos destacados thus far.
• User:Black and White (es:Usuario:Negro y Blanco)
• Guesty1 Native in English, Moderate German, Some Simplified Chinese
• ~Linuxerist A/C/E/P/S/T/Z Pretty good at Scottish and Spanish; Passable as German and Latin.
• Fsotrain09 23:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC) Four years of Spanish in high school has left me conversational, helped by the fact that I'm a native southern Californian. (es:Usuario:diplomaticaeeuu)
• --Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 15:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC) Portuguese pt:Usuário:Adamlorenz
• --I'm just here to list articles. GangstaEB (sliding logs~dive logs) 14:01, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• -- Mubote Talk A bit of French, a bit of Chinese
• -- Same as GangstaEB --Deon555|talk 00:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• -- Kingfisherswift 16:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC) Basic French, slightly better German
• -- I speak French and read English. I might write sometimes. See also a method proposal in this talk page. --DLL ^{.. T} 21:43, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Kpjas (WP-PL)
• I've been doing this for a long time, it's a formality to add myself here: Grandmasterka 04:52, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• Punkmorten
• Scoo every now and then takes a look at the Nordic wikipedias.
• _dk (zh:User:Deadkid_dk and ja:User:Deadkid_dk)

[edit] Structure

Participants on this WikiProject must have an account on at least one other Wikipedia project, and should be reasonably fluent in both English and the language used on that other Wikipedia project in order to make a reasonable translation of the information. This need not be perfect, we have cleanup tags for a reason.

The process is as follows:

1. Go to the other-language Wikipedia.
2. Look around (through categories, by hitting the random page button, etc) until you find a page that is not linked to the English Wikipedia. Good pages to look out for are those on local geography or local personalities; pages on general concepts are more likely to already exist on the English Wikipedia.
3. Edit that page to add a interwiki link [[en:PAGETITLE]], thus linking it to the English Wikipedia.
4. Create that page on the English Wikipedia, linking it back with a similar tag.
5. If the original page was a featured article, add the FAOL template to the talk page here.
6. Translate and add enough information from the other 'pedia into the English 'pedia to make the new article at least a viable stub. Preferably, translate all of it.
7. If necessary, add appropriate categories, tag as stub if it's short, and tag for cleanup if you're unsure of your translation skills.
8. Repeat as necessary.