1. Statistics Explained goes multilingual
Luxembourg,
Dissemination Working Group,
17-18 April 2012

2. Statistics Explained?
“Eurostat’s Wikipedia” (using Mediawiki software)
Central publication platform
Created and maintained collectively
Centralising and integrating content
Duplicating and partially replacing paper/pdf
But also a website !
For the general public, not specialists
Easy to navigate & intuitive, linked everywhere
At present 481 statistical articles, 76 background articles, 1300 glossary entries in English, expanding
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4. The next challenge
Statistics Explained targets general public, EU citizens
Most of them not fluent in English
Statistics Explained should speak to citizens in their language and go multilingual
And thus reach a huge new audience for European and national statistics
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5. Facilitating & risk factors
Facilitating factors:
Mediawiki software designed for multilingualism (cfr. Wikipedia)
Technical setup ready (via multilingualism plug-in)
Risks:
Resources: fully multilingual site, constantly moving, impossible to build and maintain
Managing complexity: keeping >20 language versions in 3 alphabets updated and aligned !
Quality guarantees editing unfamiliar languages, using specialised statistical terminology
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6. General principles English = mother version Workflow:
Other-language page cannot be created unless English one already exists
Updating in English page, others translated
URL other-language page = English name + ‘/xx’ (xx= de, es, fr, it, nl, etc.)
Workflow:
Creation of English translation file (Dissemination Unit)
Translation (Commission DG Translation)
Conversion to Statistics Explained article (Dissemination Unit or contracted out - very simple and rapid)
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7. Two multilingual projects
Yearbook and Regional yearbook
French and German version no longer paper/PDF publication, but set of Statistics Explained articles
103 articles also in German and French
yearly update integrated in regular workflows
20x20
20 most important and representative articles
in 20 EU languages (besides English)
across statistical domains (most articles also in Yearbook or Regional yearbook, hence already available in French and German)
updated at least yearly
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8. Timing and status Yearbook and Regional yearbook 20x20
insertion by external contractor ongoing
Regional yearbook 2011: Word file, ‘manually’, done
some 500 glossary pages: ongoing
Yearbook 2012: Word file including markup codes, started
20x20
insertion by Eurostat Dissemination unit, at present 5 to 10 articles daily;
most translations received, others expected soon
Deadline for both: end of May 2012
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9. Present situation Articles Main Page, article collection, navigation
109 non-English articles on line (of the foreseen 570: 19%)
in 13 languages covering over 90% of EU population: Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
3 pilot project languages Dutch, Greek, Polish almost complete, with 17 articles each (missing ones only recently available in English 2012 version)
Main Page, article collection, navigation
Ready for 7, 6 and 11 out of 20 languages, respectively
Status changes daily!
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10. Expected outcome Multilingual offer Updating View
All articles, some 500, in English
103 articles in French and German
20 articles in all EU languages
Updating
English latest version, continuously updated
other languages may lag behind (not more than 1 year)
View
Language switch at any page (only available language versions shown)
Main page, navigation and category page in all languages (plus theme structure for French and German)
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11. Let’s take a look …
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12. Give us your feedback, correction, suggestions, …
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