--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
This is where our experience differs. I'm working faster
with the Google
Translator Toolkit than without.
Whether faster or not is a function of a number of variables:
- How well do you know the languages and subject matter
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
English language Wikibooks with the comment crosswiki abuse ! --globally
locked[1]; about bot[2]-- . This has been occurring since March. In
every case I've checked the user in question has a unified account and in
nearly
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
English language Wikibooks with the comment crosswiki abuse ! --globally
locked[1]; about bot[2]-- .
These local blocks are made when the
That would be an acceptable solution. Thanks.
--User:Adrignola
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
pathosch...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks
Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53:
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
English language Wikibooks with the comment crosswiki abuse ! --globally
locked[1]; about bot[2]-- .
While I've had my own issues with Stewards reaching into local communities I
actually think these blocks are important and very useful for our xwiki
abusers. While the transparency reasoning that Pathoschild mentioned is true
and important just as if not more important is the autoblocks (where at
You won't find many professional translators using GTTK for their work.
[citation needed]
-m.
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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.comwrote:
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a
Aaron Adrignola wrote:
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
however. I've checked the SUL statuses for
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
Aaron Adrignola wrote:
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be
created
to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much
to
eliminate confusion amongst local
Tim Starling wrote:
On 09/08/10 03:17, James Alexander wrote:
Global locking does not have any autoblock like feature and we have a large
portion of our xwiki abusers (and even a growing number of those who only
attack only one or two sites and have figured out the global login system)
who
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
...
Is there any good free software for aligning parallel texts and
extracting translations? Looking around, I found NAtools,
TagAligner, and Bitextor, but they require texts to be marked
up already. Are these the best and
I read that thread and noticed a lot of confusion. One translator
admitted she never even tried it, but still had lots of negative stuff
to say; more than one person said they found it useful (see
Esperantisto's response), and other people seemed to not realize there
was a difference between
P.S. Chatting to Mark off-list about GTTK, and having experimented with other
languages, it appears that GTTK quality varies widely depending on the language
pair, and probably the source/target direction.
German, Hindi and Japanese are definitely handled poorly; some other language
A Committee to Deal with Content Issues
Wikipedia does not seem to have any formal arbitration committee that deals
with content. I have been involved in a number of cases in which such a
committee would be exceedingly useful ( ADHD, Rorschach test, abortion,
etc.). Currently I am involved in a
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:30 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
A Committee to Deal with Content Issues
Wikipedia does not seem to have any formal arbitration committee that deals
with content.
The Mediation Committee?
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