It would be indeed an useful or at least interesting tool for all Wikipedias. Though, many readers go to Wikipedia by a Google search, I don't know what that eventually would mean for the search results as we will see them. Kind regards Ziko
2010/6/12 Mark Williamson <[email protected]>: > Shiju, just FYI, tool kit can be used by anyone for translation. In > fact, it's good to use because (if you choose the option) it will go > toward improving future machine translation capability for your > language, thus expanding possibilities for monolingual speakers of > your language. In addition, "machine aided translation", in which an > article is translated by machine and then corrections are made, can be > a much speedier yet still accurate way to create articles. > > -m. > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Shiju Alex <[email protected]> wrote: >> This topic came up while we were discussing about Google's translation >> effort. Google/Google employees are using Google tool kit to translate >> English Wikipedia articles to many of the Indic language Wikipedias. >> >> >> We are definitely more interested if Google translates these user required >> articles than translating the English wiki articles about all the american >> pop stars (For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga). Now the >> issue is, we don't have such list to give to Google/Google employees. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Mark Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> +1. This would be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis. >>> -m. >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian ( >>> > http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small >>> > wikipedias like ours. He is one the few users who is keen on creating new >>> > articles *based on the requirement of our readers*. (Of course we have >>> many >>> > people who only reads our wiki) >>> > >>> > During discussion he raised this interesting point: >>> > >>> > Some feature is required in the MediaWiki software that enable us to see >>> a >>> > list of keywords used most frequently by the users to search for >>> non-exist >>> > articles. If we get such a list then some users like him can concentrate >>> on >>> > creating articles using that key words. >>> > >>> > Of course, I know that this feature may not be helpful for big wikis like >>> > English. But for small wikis (especially small non-Latin language wikis), >>> > this will be of great help. It is almost like* creating wiki articles >>> based >>> > on user requirement*. >>> > >>> > >>> > I would like to know your opinion regarding the same. >>> > >>> > >>> > Shiju >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > foundation-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk Niederlande _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
