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Hi everyone,

My name is Jeremy Foote. I am working with the Church Translation Division to start community translation at the Church. We are currently looking for volunteers who can translate from English into Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, German, or Russian.

Information about the project can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/ldscommunitytranslation. The project is part of Simply Serving (http://serve.lds.org), a site which provides online service opportunities for members of the Church.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

No Italian?

Italian is on the roadmap - we are in the process of gathering a list of people who are interested.

If your language isn't on the current list, then please fill out the form at https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewfor ... eE10RHc6MQ, and we will notify you when we add it.

Done! Thanks a lot.

Great! Thank you!

FYI - we just added some Italian projects (as well as some French projects).

I have no change to start translation from Simply Serving.
How can I reach Italian translation project?

It's a little bit confusing. There are instructions at https://sites.google.com/site/ldscommun ... ng-started, but basically, you will need to add Translation on the Simply Serving page, and then add English to Italian to your profile in Lingotek.

Anything Finnish ask me.
I am at the moment unable to get to LDS account stuff as I don't recieve any e-mails for some reason ... anyway I am interested in translating videos ... been doing YouTubes on LDSML, mormonmesages aso ... Also translating FAIR wikipedia ...

jdfoote wrote:It's a little bit confusing. There are instructions at https://sites.google.com/site/ldscommun ... ng-started, but basically, you will need to add Translation on the Simply Serving page, and then add English to Italian to your profile in Lingotek.

The problem is that I can't find an "add English to Italian" field.
I set up Italian as "preferred language" and English and French as other languages.
When I fill my profile I found "Native language" (Italian) and "Language that you want translate INTO" (Italian again).
I expected to read "FROM" instead of "INTO".
Have I misunderstood something or what?

Maya wrote:Anything Finnish ask me.
I am at the moment unable to get to LDS account stuff as I don't recieve any e-mails for some reason ... anyway I am interested in translating videos ... been doing YouTubes on LDSML, mormonmesages aso ... Also translating FAIR wikipedia ...

Thanks, Maya! It sounds like you are doing some great work already! I will definitely be in contact to figure out how we can work together.

The problem is that I can't find an "add English to Italian" field.
I set up Italian as "preferred language" and English and French as other languages.
When I fill my profile I found "Native language" (Italian) and "Language that you want translate INTO" (Italian again).
I expected to read "FROM" instead of "INTO".
Have I misunderstood something or what?

Mariano - it sounds like you are talking about the application form (https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/lingo ... c6MQ#gid=0). Instead of going to that page, you should go to http://simpleacts.lds.org.

Unfortunately, the process is a little bit complicated, but from there you should:

1. Add the translation activity, then open the translation activity.
2. At the top of the page that opens, it will say something like "It seems you do not have any language pairs defined. Before translating, please go to your profile page and add a language pair."
3. Click the "profile page" link, and add English to Italian as a language pair.
4. Click the "Home" link at the top left.
5. You should now see some Italian jobs under "Community Jobs".
6. Click the name of the job to start translating.

These instructions, together with some screenshots, are at https://sites.google.com/site/ldscommun ... ng-started

Please let me know if you have questions.

Thanks!,
Jeremy

No. It's exactly simpleacts.
In my profile I can't see "language pair" nor I have seen the message about his lack.

marianomarini_vi wrote:No. It's exactly simpleacts.
In my profile I can't see "language pair" nor I have seen the message about his lack.

Mariano,

Thanks for your patience and persistence. I decided that it would be easier to just take screenshots of the process.

Basically, there are 2 profiles - one in Simple Acts, and one within the Translation activity (we are planning on merging them in the future). You will need to add the language pair in the Translation activity profile.

1. Add the translation activity



2. Go to your workspace, and start the translation activity.

3. On this next page, choose to view your profile.



4. On the profile page, you can add language pairs.





After that, click the "Home" link, and you should be able to see Italian jobs.

Hopefully this helps!

Jeremy

Does anyone know if the BoM is beeing translated in to a Burma (ean) language called Karen? I have some Burmean freinds who have already translated a bit of it. Would be nice to get them work together on the BoM!

I finally got into my LDS account with correct name and password ... but I cant get in simple acts...

Maya wrote:I finally got into my LDS account with correct name and password ... but I cant get in simple acts...

Can you be more specific? What error message are getting?

Maya wrote:I finally got into my LDS account with correct name and password ... but I cant get in simple acts...

It may take a little time for changes in the LDS Account to sync to all the different sites. Does it work now?

RussellHltn wrote:It may take a little time for changes in the LDS Account to sync to all the different sites. Does it work now?

Nope... tells me that I have incorrect information... even though I am already on my LDS account... I did try without logging on the account first... same thing happened.

jdfoote wrote:Mariano,

It's exactly at this point (after clicking "Start") that I get the error page!

Mariano,

Could you post a screenshot of the error that you are getting?

Thanks,
Jeremy

techgy wrote:Can you be more specific? What error message are getting?

I go to the http://simpleacts.lds.org/#
Click in sighn in and the LDS account thing comes ... I write my "name" and pasword (which I can get in in Family Search and my LDS account to change things in) But it says : Incorrect log in. Something about login information beeing invalide.
BTW I need to check if this forum is connected to my LDS account... someone there (LDS account) had already Maya... It seems to have connected... so this site is ok.

Maya wrote:I go to the http://simpleacts.lds.org/#
Click in sighn in and the LDS account thing comes ... I write my "name" and pasword (which I can get in in Family Search and my LDS account to change things in) But it says : Incorrect log in. Something about login information beeing invalide.
BTW I need to check if this forum is connected to my LDS account... someone there (LDS account) had already Maya... It seems to have connected... so this site is ok.

Maya,

Currently this site (tech forum) is not using the LDS account, but it will be. I just do not know when. You didn't specify which family search site you can successfully login to. http://new.familysearch.org uses the LDS account. The older side http://www.familysearch.org is not using the LDS account.

I believe you mentioned that you were able to login to: http://ldsaccount.lds.org if this is true, then you must have your LDS account login information correct.

Some of the common mistakes that people make when using a password is that they often leave the CAPS lock key enabled. This results in a password being entered in UPPER CASE by default. So be sure that you check this.

I can log into the new Family Search.
Yes I used that LDS account. I also tried to check my caps...

Maya wrote:I can log into the new Family Search.
Yes I used that LDS account. I also tried to check my caps...

Maya,

If you can login in NFS then you're no doubt using the correct LDS account information. At this point you may wish to use the Feedback mechanism on the simpleacts site to report your problem. It's possible they may have additional suggestions.

Good morning and thanks. I`ll try that...

Maya,

If you're successful at some point, please let us know what you found.
It may be helpful to someone else.

I'm not able to attach the image.
I'll send it to your email adress.

As I have translated some mormonmessges to my language I dont mind if they take them on the official site too... Any interest to this?
I finally got in the simple acts.. that is what happens when you have an unusual letter or mark in your name... and I have both!:p

Hi Maya,

We are working on getting through the approval process for a bunch of items, and I'm hoping that Mormon Messages makes it onto the list as a translation project.

For now, I can pass on a link to your translations. How can I find them?

Cool... here are my translations: http://www.youtube.com/user/LDSML
You are welcome to use them.
I have some FAIR and some others too and a couple of my own. I may have some spelling mistakes, punctuation, bigletters,... but not many. Translations are not always word for word, but to make the point understod in Finnish/Norwegean and written with as few words as possible. In the speaches I have used the official translation so those are ok for sure. (My first one by Elder Holland is done by ear... so it is not the same as the official one)
If I have not always had a text to translate from, I may have heard wrong something or left out something, that I cant make out what it is. The main purpose should be (read is) there.
There may be some tecknical things, that I dont know of that could have made the translation better ... Sometimes I could have spoken on them... IF I knew how to take the talking away ... and not the music... I could use a smal traning for this and I can come over there for it, if needed. I been planning a visit to USA for a few years now... and this time to see the SL area maybe mormontrail... FAIR conferance would be great to be with... so maybe next August I come over. (Or the Mormon Book Conferance.... cant decide). I just hate the inquiry at the customs, makes you feel like a criminal.
ML

Thanks very much. I will pass on your translations.

I think it's so great that there are members of the Church making translations available in their language. I want to be clear that we are still in the very early stages of this project, and while I certainly hope that we are in a position where we could provide training for you (and others) next year, we still have a long way to go before we are at that point.

I will certainly keep you updated as things progress. Thanks again!

You are well come! I just love to do this... but I know I have my problems. I am so happy to be able to do something that will help tio forward the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Thanks for keeping me in mind!

Sounds great! I'll keep you updated.

Hi, can I still participate in any project of translation? I have translated some projects for the Church before from English to Spanish.

cimake wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:00 pm Hi, can I still participate in any project of translation? I have translated some projects for the Church before from English to Spanish.

Hi! No, unfortunately, all of the Church-headquarters-sponsored translation projects are now done by Church employees or contractors. If you're interested in helping with translation as a job, you can look for openings at Careers.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. If you're in an area outside the United States, there might be opportunities local to your area (such as articles or other materials on area websites).

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