Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-03-02 Thread James Salsman
> Wikidata's Lexeme project is progressing slowly, but its direction is right. > It will finally build a technical platform that is actually good for a > dictionary. A wiki article is a very similar type to dictionary presentation of lexemes. The best dictionaries also cover morphemes, e.g., "gra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-03-02 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 02/03/2018 à 00:46, Jean-Philippe Béland a écrit : I think this is à propos in this discussion about how authoritative can be the Wiktionary... here a scientific article starts by using a definition from the Wiktionary: http://theconversation.com/de-facebook-au-developpement-des-plantes-quand-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-03-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I think this is à propos in this discussion about how authoritative can be the Wiktionary... here a scientific article starts by using a definition from the Wiktionary: http://theconversation.com/de-facebook-au-developpement-des-plantes-quand-les-reseaux-sen-melent-90891 JP On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-03-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2018-02-28 23:09 GMT+02:00 James Salsman : > > > building an authoritative dictionary is considerably > > harder than building a (de facto) authoritative encyclopedia. > > What reason is there to think that? My any measure of editor hours, or > the amount of money it would take to replicate the eff

Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-02-28 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 1:09 PM James Salsman wrote: > > We are not *teaching* encyclopedia articles. > > What is the difference between delivering the text of an encyclopedia > article and teaching it? Depending on one's understanding of "teaching", and its expected outcomes, the difference ca

[Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-02-28 Thread James Salsman
> building an authoritative dictionary is considerably > harder than building a (de facto) authoritative encyclopedia. What reason is there to think that? My any measure of editor hours, or the amount of money it would take to replicate the effort, or the maintenance load going forward, I'm sure t