On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:03 -0400, Gregory Maxwell
wrote:
On 10/9/07, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If a small wiki decides to fill out its page
count with largely
untranslated articles from en:wp, that's really not building a wiki or
a community, is it.
Exactly. If we wanted that we could adjust mediawiki to fall through
to the enwp text. ;)
and If we wanted a machine translation we wouldn't bother with the
whole multiple wikis thing.
Machine translation has a useful, and under-used place to play in the
development of smaller Wikipedias.
Fran
I completely agree to this statement :-)
Cheers, Sabine
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