I am surprised you consider it "people add content", Gerard.  It is explicitly *not* people adding content, but a bot using machine translation.  Machine translation is problematic enough for just reading some text, but a machine-translated *dictionary* is literally worse than nothing.  It is a travesty, and it is better to *not* offer dictionary entries in Malagasy than to offer machine-translated ones with zero human supervision.

I encourage this committee to consider whether it is beneficial to the mission to allow this to continue.

   A.

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Wikimedia Foundation


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On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:18 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
An error rate is expected when people add content, this is true for any project. Given that the information is based on what other Wiktionaries offer, from a Wikimedia point of view, no new errors are introduced. What we do not have atm is a process where translations are shared in one database. This is possible at OmegaWiki but that is outside of WMF.

From my perspective, a good effort as with any project it has its flaws.
Thanks,
       GerardM

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