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On translations and google in particular, my understanding is that it
is up to each Wikipedia community to decide how/if to use translations
as a whole, and whether google's translation tool is useful or not. I'm
not aware of anything that either binds us or restricts us from using
translation technologies, and my guess would be that you should decide
on the basis of your experience. If you'd like to get a broader or
comparative view, my suggestion would be to check in with the Board,
ask Foundation staff members you know, or perhaps post to foundation-l
and see if others have useful experience to share. [email protected] wrote: Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to [email protected]To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Philosophical view on Google translated articles (Srikanth Ramakrishnan) 2. Re: Philosophical view on Google translated articles (Manish Goregaokar) 3. Re: Philosophical view on Google translated articles (Srikanth Ramakrishnan) 4. Re: Number of local Wikipedians (Jyothis Edathoot) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:34:12 +0530 From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Philosophical view on Google translated articles To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I agree with Shiju and Ramesh. I tried it out for Hindi. And the phrase 'A fully charged battery' got translated to what would mean a battery that got charged [the court charged]. It isn't all that accurate right now, but it may improve. While to a certain extent, it may seem like Google is catalising Localised content, you can clearly see that Google might be trying to gain Monopoly over Wikipedia as well. This may rsult in editors quitting and doing what Nichalp allegedly did a while back. My two paise [not cents].. Regards, On 20 April 2010 23:27, Ravishankar <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Shiju, Ramesh Thanks for the input. Can you update the status in ml wiki regarding Google translated articles? Seems it is banned in Bengali Wikipedia. We understand that this project is run in many Indian language Wikis but not sure of the exact list. Manish, This whole conversation is about using http://translate.google.com/toolkit/ The Kit by itself may be somewhat flexible to edit as you mentioned. But the paid translators don't seem to be using it. Ravi _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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