Hi Arjun and others, I will be mostly offline till 22nd December. Will answer your queries regarding the Google translation project after that.
Sorry for the delay. Thanks, Ravi On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks a lot for the update. > > I think the updated process is similar with Open source community > philosophy when Commercial companies (like IBM, Sun etc) contribute source > code. Tamil Wiki has that kind of rigor in quality checking and is able > to do a good job. Other Wikipedias may not be in a position to engage in a > similar way, due to policies and/or level of active wikipedians. One more > comment below. > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Some updates on the Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia. >> --snip >> >> >> We did a quality review of these articles and found that only around 50% >> of them has an acceptable minimum quality regarding translation ( We just >> rated the style of the language and accuracy in translation. We did not do a >> full review on the merit of the article). >> --snip-- >> > Can you elaborate more on the style? How did you measure the accuracy of > translation? It may be desirable to adopt the English articles for the > target wikipedia, than verbatim translation. > How much effort was spent to arrive at the above conclusions? # of > articles, # of reviewers, time frame etc would help. > > Thanks > Arjun > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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