Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/OKA

OKA Intertranswiki
Translating content from OKA Wikipedia

Welcome to the OKA taskforce of WikiProject Intertranswiki!

OKA (Open Knowledge Association) is a Swiss non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. It provides Wikipedia training and monthly stipends to translators to full-time translators to edit Wikipedia. Because OKA editors receive a compensation, they are disclosed as paid editors, however OKA editors act independently and are free to work on any articles they like. OKA covers a large variety of languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.

Intertranswiki and OKA are not formally associated. However, due to the close alignment of their objectives, the IntertransWiki project agreed to host OKA as a taskforce to simplify collaboration.

Useful resources

• OKA website
• Articles published by OKA: on-wiki and off-wiki (official tracker)
• OKA articles submitted in AfC
• OKA paid editors (on-wiki)
• Official OKA instructions to its translators (off-wiki)

How to help

Since OKA translators are technically paid editors, all their contributions to EN WP are considered to have a conflict of interest. As a result, they are not allowed to create new articles in EN WP directly but must use the Article for Creation (AfC) process. (note that this requirement does not apply to other Wikipedia languages where OKA operates, e.g., ES, PT). Unfortunately, the AfC review process is very slow (often 3+ months of backlog), and was not designed for translations. As a result, articles created by OKA often get stuck in the review process, with many backs-and-forths.

By improving AfC articles submitted by OKA editors, you can help translations reach the wider public faster, and also pass helpful feedback to OKA editors based on your own experience as a translator in Wikipedia.

The list of OKA articles currently waiting for AfC review can be found here. OKA editors are instructed to add the "OKA template" to the talk page of their drafts only once these are submitted for AfC, and to delete the draft talk once the article is in the mainspace. If you see that an article in this list is not submitted in AfC or already published in the mainspace, you can remove the OKA template from the draft talk so that it no longer shows in the list.

Formal project members (excluding any paid editors)

• 7804j (Founder and main donor)