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I am an Arabic-English translator - how can I help?

Watch this video to get started.

Here's more about how you can get involved:

• Start translating comments from the Translate tab
• Have a go at translating articles from the Links tab
• Subscribe to other translators
• Join our mailing list for translators to meet other members of the team, share translations and learn about new translation features

For more information message our community director, George Weyman on Meedan, tweet to @Meedan on Twitter or email translators@meedan.net

I have some Arabic language skills and I want to improve - how can I get involved?

Watch this video to get started.

Here's more about how you can get involved:

• Start translating comments from the Translate tab
• Have a go at translating articles from the Links tab
• Subscribe to other translators and ask for their help when you get stuck
• Join our mailing list for translators to meet other members of the team, share translations and learn about new translation features

For more information message our community director, George Weyman on Meedan, tweet to @Meedan on Twitter or email translators@meedan.net

I am a blogger/ journalist/ Twitter fanatic - how can I get involved?

Watch this video to get started.

Here's more about how you can get involved:

• Start posting articles for translation and making comments
• Reply to posts from other users to engage the debate
• Use the search tool to find useful articles on stories and themes you are interested in or researching
• Request translations of comments and articles from the translation community
• Tag interesting stories and sources you discover around the web with the for_meedan tag (it would be also great if you could tag the location and language of the source)
• Join our mailing list for editors to meet other members of the community, share stories and sources and learn about new functionality on Meedan
• Follow us on Twitter, and fan our Facebook page
• Share out links and comments on Twitter, or email your friends

For more information message our community director, George Weyman on Meedan, tweet to @Meedan on Twitter or email translators@meedan.net

I am a media/ Middle East reseacher - how can I get involved?

Watch this video to get started.

Here's more about how you can get involved:

• Use the search tool to find useful articles on stories and themes you are researching
• Explore how different sources treat different events based on their location or ownership
• Tag interesting stories and sources you discover around the web with the for_meedan tag (it would be also great if you could tag the location and language of the source)
• Help build our MENA media sources database - for more information contact info@meedan.net
• Ask users questions and develop contacts
• Join our mailing list for editors to meet other members of the community, share stories and sources and learn about new functionality on Meedan
• Follow us on Twitter, and fan our Facebook page

For more information message our community director, George Weyman on Meedan, tweet to @Meedan on Twitter or email translators@meedan.net

Where can I find further information about Meedan?

Follow Meedan on Twitter

Become a Meedan fan on Facebook

Read product updates on the Meedan blog

See Meedan’s links, tags and snippets from the web on Delicious

View Meedan thinking on social translation, the semantic web, and more on the the Meedan Google Group.

Help expand our database of social media sources from the Arabic and English-language web on Freebase.

Which browsers support meedan.net?

Meedan.net is supported on Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 6, so you may find problems with the site on other browsers such as Safari. We are working to extend the application to other browsers ongoing.

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