[Wikimediaindia-l] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread Ravishankar
Hi, Some updates on the Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia. ( Refer http://bit.ly/adRtak for some background info ) The project started around August 2009 and went on continuously till August 2010 and added 1000+ articles. During May 2010 - August 2010, we reduced adding new

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread Shiju Alex
Congrats to Tamil community for trying to bring out a process for Google's Translation project. I really wonder how other language communities are handling this. Apart from Tamil, Google Translation project is going on at least in Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu. It is banned in Bengali wiki. I could

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread Belayet Hossain
Ravi, That's a nice process to deal with Google translation project. In Bengali Wikipedia, if the translation is not in acceptable quality community also shift content to the user namespace of that translator and ask them to improve it. But there are very few examples that translator rewrite or

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread Ragib Hasan
I agree with what Belayet mentioned about the Google translated articles on Bengali Wikipedia. So far, we have not been contacted by Google directly. Rather, we have dealt with the paid contractors who were hired by Google. As Belayet has said, the paid translators do not follow up with the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread Belayet Hossain
Sundar, That will be a nice idea. Please go ahead. They can discuss it in that mailing lists or at local Wikipedia page. Belayet On 3 December 2010 10:56, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ragib, Belayet, Good to see you here. :) Shall I forward your email to the Google

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread Ragib Hasan
Hi Sundar, Please go ahead and forward our emails/thread to your contacts at Google. Once again, we are open to the Google translation project as long as we are kept informed and the article creation process follows our local community standards. Ragib On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:41 AM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

2010-12-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Forwarded the thread along with links to your two emails. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore 23rd Wikimeetup on Dec 18 , with Erik / Danese / Alolita

2010-12-02 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi all, As some of you would have known, In addition to the meeting with folks from Wikimedia Foundation on 18th December, the regular Bangalore Wikipedia monthly meetup will be held on usual 2nd Sunday, 12th December. We would focus on planning for 10th anniversary celebration event on