Congrats to Tamil community for trying to bring out a process for Google's Translation project.<br><br>I really wonder how other language communities are handling this. Apart from Tamil, Google Translation project is going on at least in Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu. It is banned in Bengali wiki. <br>
<br>I could see many articles are loaded to wikis each day. And for many of them the only contributor is the Google employee who translated it. <br><br>Shiju<br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arjunaraoc@googlemail.com">arjunaraoc@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Hi,<br><br>Thanks a lot for the update.<br><br>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Ravishankar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravidreams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi,<br><br>Some updates on the Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia.<br></div>--snip<div class="im"><br><br>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).<br>
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--snip--<br></blockquote><div>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.<br>
How much effort was spent to arrive at the above conclusions? # of articles, # of reviewers, time frame etc would help. <br><br>Thanks<br>Arjun<br></div><br><br></div><br>
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