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15 January 2019
You can now use Google Translate to translate articles on Wikipedia
Wikipedia editors can select from several machine translation systems to support an initial article translation, Google Translate now being one of these options.
16 July 2013
Crowd-Sourcing Translations: Your Video Game in Inuktitut
The company Pinnguaq helped crowd-sourced a translation of the videogame Osmos into indigenous Inuit language. "These kids were not hearing the language they speak at home and at school in...
11 April 2013
Celebrating Multilingualism at the Tunis World Social Forum
Would you deem yourself able of understanding, however partially, the general meaning of a text written in a language you know nothing of, except maybe its existence? Such as Basque,...
27 February 2012
Russia: Harm Reduction Web-site Blocked by the Government
At the beginning of February Russian Government blocked a web-site of the Moscow nonprofit organization Andrey Rylkov Foundation on the request of the Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS). This was...
1 February 2012
Ukraine: Online Interactive Map Helps Fight HIV
Private Ukrainian Charity Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS foundation in partnership with the Ukrainian office of Google launched the news social service maps.antiaids.org. The new service will help Ukrainian Internet users easier...
3 January 2012
Ukraine: Photo Art Helps Fighting AIDS
To mark the World AIDS Day in 2011 a photo exhibition of the project “AIDS- Open Faces” took place in Kiev. The exhibition was devoted to people whose life was...
30 December 2011
Ukraine: The Role of the ASTAU Information Manager
Svetlana Sharamok is an information manager for the Association of Substitution Treatment Advocates of Ukraine (ASTAU). In this e-mail interview to Rising Voices she talks about her work and the...
26 November 2011
Ukraine: Harm Reduction Activists Report Small Accomplishments
The work of the activists of the Association of Substitution Therapy Treatment of Ukraine is focused on making live of the patients of opiate replacement therapy more comfortable, helping them...
21 November 2011
Ukraine: Blogging Personal Stories of Real People
The focus of the bloggers from the Association of the Substitution Treatment Advocates of Ukraine is to discuss the issues that affect their lives the most. Today in Ukraine the...
13 November 2011
Ukraine: Finding Comfort and Advice in a Forum
A discussion board of the web-site Motilek.com.ua run by Ukrainian non-profit organization and RV grantee Drop-in Center unites people living with drug addiction where they can share advice about issues...
26 October 2011
Ukraine: A Healthy Debate in the Comments Section
A popular Ukrainian internet website published an article that was critical of opioid replacement therapy programs. The online discussion that took place in the comments section shows that there is...
13 October 2011
Ukraine: Learning How to Advocate for a Cause
To help further their mission, harm reduction activists in Ukraine understand that they need to deal with government agencies as part of their advocacy work. The leader of Chernivtsi NGO...
15 September 2011
Ukraine: Bloggers React to the Detention of Activist
Bloggers from the Ukrainian harm reduction community was very disturbed with the detention of Russian activist Irina Teplinskaya, who was accused of of drug smuggling after returning from treatment in...
