User:Contraexemplo

Hi, I'm Anna. I was born in Brazil in 1995, I'm no longer a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate but I'm studying to become a Software Engineering one, and I'm visually impaired. Those aspects of my life are relevant because they, undoubtely, have influence on the work I do — thus, being fundamental to understand my point of view.



I'm best known in the free software world for being the translator and current localization maintainer of Mastodon, a free and open-source software designed to connect you to a decentralized, federated social network called the fediverse. I also maintain the translation of multiple mobile applications that serve it.

On Wikimedia projects, I'm known for working on a project called Translation outreach: User guides on MediawWiki.org through a three-month internship program for underrepresented groups in technology called Outreachy

Currently, I work at the Federal University of Goiás' MediaLab, in particular with a free software called Tainacan Tainacan — a WordPress plug-in and theme focused on helping people, groups, institutions and GLAMs to create and manage digital, and sometimes open, repositories. Said software, in addition to offering similar functionalities to others in the same category such as dSPACE, also allows various participants — such as team members and general public — to collaborate with polls, comments, suggestions or submissions.

Internship with Wikimedia (2017-2018)
In an unprecedented initiative with two Community Liaisons, Johan Jönsson and Benoît Evellin, I dedicated three months to studying the internationalization and localization culture and practices on Wikimedia projects, in particular user guides on MediaWiki.org. In my analysis, I investigated aspects related to the writing of technical documentation, internationalization and localization of the software and its documentation, English fluency of the speakers of the 25 most used languages on Wikimedia projects, easiness to new contributors to join the project as technical translators (and how we welcome them), and the usability of the translation tool (Extension:Translate). My findings were published on my page dedicated to the project on MediaWiki.org, an article on the official Wikimedia Foundation blog, and on a final report.