Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Contribution to Wikipedia

My first ever contribution to Wikipedia community was to translate FC Barcelona one of my favorite Football clubs English wiki page into Sinhala.

This was done as an assignment for the module Software Localization.

Learning Experiences
  • How to use wikipedia
  • Search for Similar pages in a certain language in Wikipedia
  • Improved translating skills
  • Wikipedia page structures and tags used
  • Inter language interaction between pages while translating, linking, and redirecting.
http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/බාර්සිලෝනා_පාපන්දු_සමාජය is the Sinhala wikipedia link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona is the original English page

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