David Gerard wrote:
If you could pick an FA in another language and port it to the best English-language article you can, and let us know what sort of numbers of hours this takes, that would be most useful to know.
(and, as Danny says, it beats arguing about people, process or policy)
I translated an Italian featured article ([[Carlo Airoldi]]) earlier this year. It was short (only about 600 words) and it took probably about two or three hours. I have very little experience as a translator, though, and i think it could be done much quicker by a better Italian speaker with more experience of translation. The article in question would never have been featured on en, since it had no inline references and I wouldn't have even called it NPOV, which illustrated the problems with this sort of approach.
adam