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On Jun 19, 2012, at 01:59 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
There is currently an enormous backlog at Articles for Creation, of over
700 articles.
If you've got some time
A claim made here about Duolingo and translating Wikipedia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017
With 100,000 active users, von Ahn says Duolingo could translate
Wikipedia from English into Spanish in five weeks. With one million
users, it would take about 80 hours.
Our article on
PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how
different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on
the same topic (i.e. they are rarely direct translations if
independent editing of the articles is being done). Also, I'm not
clear if they are saying that this
And what's even worse, the very different templates used in each
language version.
2012/6/20 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how
different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on
the same topic (i.e. they
On 20 June 2012 13:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
A claim made here about Duolingo and translating Wikipedia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017
With 100,000 active users, von Ahn says Duolingo could translate
Wikipedia from English into Spanish in five weeks.
On 20 June 2012 13:22, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
One caveat that may be relevant to von Ahn's mention of Wikipedia:
...in the case of French, they are from the French version of
Vikidia, a Wikipedia fork that’s basically a simple version of French
Wikipedia intended for
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Matthew Bowker
matthewrbowker.w...@me.com wrote:
Even through all that, I believe AfC needs to exist. It does provide a
great service to anon editors who won't create accounts for whatever reason.
The only reason that makes any sense would be that they don't
On 20 June 2012 05:29, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 June 2012 13:22, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
One caveat that may be relevant to von Ahn's mention of Wikipedia:
...in the case of French, they are from the French version of
Vikidia, a Wikipedia fork that’s
On 20 June 2012 13:20, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how
different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on
the same topic (i.e. they are rarely direct translations if
independent editing of the
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:25:31 + (GMT), Matthew Bowker wrote:
Even through all that, I believe AfC needs to exist. It does
provide a great service to anon editors who won't create accounts
for whatever reason.
Are supporters of AfC known as creationists?
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