Subject-Was: Off-topic, but I must share this "David Gerard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 2009/4/24 Angela Anuszewski <[email protected]>: > >> So, what happens when this site starts profiting off material they lifted >> from Wikipedia without crediting the original authors and conforming to >> the >> GFDL (or whatever license that Wikipedia winds up with?) > > > These blogs and sites are typically put up by spammers. They use > machine-translated content so as not to trigger Google's duplicate > content penalty.
Maybe google should run a mechanical grammar critic over everything. I would not mind the convenience of one on wikipedia at all, because it would save me a lot of keystrokes trying to explain any changes I could theoretically make. Good ones hav a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index, along with commentary about why some words raise that index -- the lower the better, and it's hard to bring one down to eight. The only disadvantage is that active voice makes a cleaner translation, so the more wikipedia's readability improves, the better the mechanical translation. I do not think it would make a big statistical difference, though. If google tuned and rated their fog index nicely, then bloggers of the plain English variety would like the rating changes, too. I feel like cross-posting this to alt.usage.english, and I see no convenient way to do that, today. _______ <a href="http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/";>BrewJay's Babble Bin</a> _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
