[Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 11:17:24 UTC 2010


Can we clarify here, are we talking about Google Translate or Google
Translator Toolkit?

-m.

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Przykuta <przykuta at o2.pl> wrote:
>> I've seen several requests, both on meta and on language projects,  to
>> delete this kind of bad quality "translation" which people think
>> better to scratch a new version.
>
> Uhm. In pl wiki google translate is evil. Translations by google translate are deleted (not speedy). Users who use google translate for mass production of articles are blocked.
>
> So, it's generaly problem with copy (articles, ideas etc.) from en wiki (most popular):
>
> http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enwikizm
>
> "Not all things in en wiki are good. Just don't copy thoughtlessly."
>
> przykuta
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