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[Sarah Pearson <sarah AT creativecommons.org>]

Thanks to those who joined us for one of the two calls about legal code translations this week!

For those who were unable to join, here are the notes for reference.

best,

Sarah

Overview - not porting, creating “official translations” that are legal equivalents to English; our hope is to create one translation for each language, which requires coordination across jurisdictions

Translation process summary: 

(1) Send proposal of translation project to Regional Coordinators

(2) Prepare draft translation using worksheet and submit to Regional Coordinators (please include explanations in English whenever you faced a challenge)

(3) Resolve questions and concerns regarding draft translation with CC Legal

(4) Public comment period

(5) Prepare final, official translation of BY-NC-SA.

(6) Resolve questions and concerns with CC Legal.

(7) Create the rest of the license suite and put them into html files. (refer to supporting materials for help.)

(8) Send files to CC Legal and we will post on testing server.

(9) CC Legal and translation team will do another full review and resolve any issues.

(10) Make sure deed and chooser are fully translated.

(11) Launch the license suite.

 

Status of published/pending translations -

            4.0 licenses:

• Working on first draft: Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish
• Finished first draft: Bahasa Indonesian, Czech, Swedish
• In public discussion: Japanese, Lithuanian, Maori, Ukraianian
• Finalizing 6 licenses: French, Italian, Portuguese
• Published: Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian

 

           CCO:

• Working on first draft: LIthuanian, Malay, Polish, Serbian, Spanish
• Finalizing after public comment: Japanese, Taiwanese
  
• Published: Dutch, Finnish, French 

Wikimedia funding - Wikimedia has funded creation of six 4.0 translations that are key for their community in order to consider moving Wikipedia to 4.0. Those languages are Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, Japanese, German, Russian, Chinese/Mandarin. Translations to be completed by the global summit this fall. 

Translation challenges - If you haven't already, please read the translation guide no matter what stage of translation you are in. The guide contains helpful information about key phrases (e.g., difference between "similar rights" and "neighboring rights" and "related rights"), information about formatting, and more. Whenever you face a difficult decision on how to translate a word, decide to use a different word for something than was used in an earlier port of the license, or otherwise can provide context to us in our review, please do so in the translation worksheet in English. It will speed up our review of your draft, and it may be useful information for us to add to the translation guide.

 

Landing pages - This is the current page where pending/published translations are listed. Each language is linked to its own page with information pre-populated after you completed your initial translation project proposal. CC HQ is currently trying to figure out how to make these language pages more user-friendly so that teams can continually update them throughout the process. More on that soon.