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UPDATE:
In early April 2014, ICANN I/T Staff was able to reintroduce a third-party plugin capability that is now site-wide and enables the Bing Translate engine for all Community Wiki spaces. As a result, the individual solution implemented for CROPP has been deactivated.
You will find the new "Translate" capability as the last word in the status line immediately below the page title.
Originally Announced in December 2013...
We were able to find an alternative method for enabling the Microsoft Bing language translation capability. At present, it is only available on a Space-by-Space basis and is currently being tested/evaluated in this CROPP application.
To operate, just click on the Translate box (upper area of the left Navigation menu), select from one of the 30 languages, and the entire page will be translated. Given that it is a computer-generated translation, there may be errors and peculiarities; however, we hope that it is generally useful in terms of understanding the content.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to enter them at the bottom of this Blog note.
ICANN Staff
We were able to find an alternative method for enabling the Microsoft Bing language translation capability. At present, it is only available on a Space-by-Space basis and is currently being tested/evaluated in this CROPP application.
To operate, just click on the Translate box (upper area of the left Navigation menu), select from one of the 30 languages, and the entire page will be translated. Given that it is a computer-generated translation, there may be errors and peculiarities; however, we hope that it is generally useful in terms of understanding the content.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to enter them at the bottom of this Blog note.
ICANN Staff
We are pleased to report that the Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program Wiki space has been officially opened (as of 11 October 2013) and is now available to receive your community regional trip proposals.
Please remember, in addition to approval from your community leadership and the ICANN Stakeholder Engagement Vice President in the region of the proposed travel, before you will be able to submit any trip proposals, Staff needs to set up the appropriate permissions/authorization on the Wiki for each PPC. For that to be accomplished, we need from you the name and email information for each of your “coordinators.” You'll recall that you can identify up to two PPCs for your community.
Ken Bour has recorded an audio-video tutorial for PPCs which is accessible from: Pilot Program Coordinator (PPC) Training.
We are also happy to provide individual training sessions to any coordinators that you identify throughout the program year.
Also, please remember that the site will be available for viewing by the entire ICANN community, so you can learn from the proposals of your fellow community leaders. We are still working to perfect the translation capabilities of the wiki space and hope to have that on-line soon.
We are still early in the life of this pilot program. If you still have questions after you have had an opportunity to review the Wiki space materials (see CROPP Overview Documents and Program Operations) please contact Janice Douma Lange or Robert Hoggarth. We will be happy to join you for a call or a meeting to provide an overview and answer your specific questions about the program.
When you are ready, please send your coordinator names and contact information to Robert Hoggarth and Janice Douma Lange and we will work with Ken to get them the necessary Wiki credentials issued as soon as possible. We are looking forward to hearing from all of you.
