For Tamil wiki there was a control over the Google's project. I hope that had helped to control the damage. But think about the wikis where Google employees were having a free hand.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabot...@gmail.com>wrote: > Great, now in ta wiki we are stuck with the task of correcting a 1000 > crappy large articles. No wonder they showed little interest in correcting > or copy editing and always wanted to push for more new articles. They must > have had an internal target of X words or so for gaining experience for the > machines. Once that was done they have closed up shop. > > "You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less > fluent and include many more untranslated words" > > If this is the officially admitted state of an alpha release, imagine the > quality of the articles this project created using beta versions. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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