Comments on: Volunteering your translation services

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:35:26 +0000

If you are interested in crowdsourced translation or social translation you may volunteer your services at http://wikitranslation.org .

If you only know one language but are good at coding check out the open source project http://www.worldwidelexicon.org

By: Tarie Kertodikromo

Tarie Kertodikromo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:02:06 +0000

Hi Tamara and all

I am Tarie from Indonesia.

I am eager to be a volunteer translator. Still needed?
Just contact me at YM: magicpie2005 and I’ll help in translating in English and bahasa Indonesia.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:31:29 +0000

Hi Corinne,

I saw that you registered on Kiva. We look forward to having you as a volunteer translator!

Cheers,
Tamara

By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:43:04 +0000

@Tamara, thank you for your comment, I had no idea that this opportunity existed, it sounds fantastic!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:45:19 +0000

The Kiva Translators Program is another option for volunteer translation (www.kiva.org/volunteer).

One of the New York Times Magazine’s “Top Ideas of 2006,” Kiva.org is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to an entrepreneur in the developing world.

The Kiva Translation Program offers the opportunity to use your skills to make a direct contribution, improve language skills, network with other Kiva volunteers and build your resume.

Volunteering from their own homes, Kiva volunteers translate entrepreneurs’ profiles into English, which are then posted for funding at Kiva.org. It provides the main content that connects the lenders to the borrowers.

Translators are currently needed for:

Bahasa Indonesia
French
Mongolian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Vietnamese
Future needs: Arabic, Armenian, Dari, Pashto, and Tagalog

By: Doing volunteer translation | The GITS Blog

Doing volunteer translation | The GITS Blog — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:16:44 +0000

[...] Corrine over at Thoughts on Translation has a good post on volunteering your translation services. [...]

By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:24:35 +0000

Thanks to Chris and Clint for these other suggestions, those are excellent ideas, thanks for sending them in!

By: Clint

Clint — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:15:36 +0000

I’ve often found the local chapter of the United Way is a good resource for knowing what charities and organizations in the community might have a need for translators, interpreters, and general language help.

By: Translate English Indonesian

Translate English Indonesian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:57:59 +0000

Good information. Thank you !

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:51:42 +0000

Hi Corinne, Great idea! Another possibility is the Lingua Project, which translates articles at the citizen media project Global Voices into over a dozen different languages, largely through the efforts of volunteers. (For background, see this article at Translation Journal.) Another project in a somewhat similar vein that I would suggest is a Paris-based international translation community called Cucumis, which was written up in TechCrunch a while back.