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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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