I am surprised you consider it "people add content", Gerard.  It is
explicitly *not* people adding content, but a bot using machine
translation.  Machine translation is problematic enough for just reading
some text, but a machine-translated *dictionary* is literally worse than
nothing.  It is a travesty, and it is better to *not* offer dictionary
entries in Malagasy than to offer machine-translated ones with zero human
supervision.

I encourage this committee to consider whether it is beneficial to the
mission to allow this to continue.

   A.

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:18 PM Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hoi,
> An error rate is expected when people add content, this is true for any
> project. Given that the information is based on what other
> Wiktionaries offer, from a Wikimedia point of view, no new errors are
> introduced. What we do not have atm is a process where translations are
> shared in one database. This is possible at OmegaWiki but that is outside
> of WMF.
>
> From my perspective, a good effort as with any project it has its flaws.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 20:54, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FYI: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_audit/Malagasy_Wiktionary
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Small_wiki_audit/Malagasy_Wiktionary
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