Dans le cadre de la Journée Internationale de la Femme, célébrée le 08 mars, Wiki Loves Women organise un translate-a-thon, le “translation drive #16WikiWomen”.
L’idée est de traduire les articles biographiques publiés sur Wikipédia de 16 femmes africaines dans au moins 16 langues différentes (africaines et internationales) entre le 20 février et le 07 mars 2017.
Les langues de traduction peuvent être par exemple (mais toute autre langue sera la bienvenue):
- Langues internationales: arabe, anglais, français, espagnol, portuguais, chinois, allemand
- Langues africaines: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho, Chichewa
La liste des 16 biographies (sauf exception, la version anglophone est la plus développée):
- Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
- Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician (the best initial version is in French)
- Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
- Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
- Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
- Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
- Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
- Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
- Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist
- Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in Arabic : w:ar:Asmaa Mahfouz
- Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
- Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
- Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
- Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
- Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria