Inside LabourStart

Thanks to the help of the Solidarity Center, we’ve now got several things translated into Arabic which will make it easier for Arabic speaking trade unionists to be LabourStart correspondents.

At the moment we have 7 correspondents whose primary language is Arabic (from Palestine, Morocco, Bahrain, Egypt and Lebanon) and I’ve asked them to check out our implementation of an Arabic-language interface for entering news.  (This already works in French and Russian, as well as English of course.)

We also have the text of the welcome message which I send out to all new correspondents — I’ll use this the next time we get an application to be a correspondent from an Arabic speaking country.

Finally, we have a translation of the page where new correspondents sign up – but I need some help getting that one ready …