On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
Given currently existing technology, and technology
that we can reasonably
assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve
its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of
all human knowledge?
Consider that Google Translate has the best machine translation corpus,
I think it is too early for this.
Don't forget that there aren't a Wikipedia, but Wikipedias.
Each language version of Wikipedia has slightly different viewpoints/bias.
Which will you chose to be the source for the translations then?
And why partner with Google? There are Free alternatives in development:
http://www.apertium.org/
http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page
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