On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
- Implement spelling and punctuation check automatically within GTTK
before
posting of the articles.
There is spell check in Translator Toolkit, although it's not available
for
all languages. We don't have any punctuation checks today and I doubt
that
we can release this anytime soon. (If it's not available in Google Docs
or
Gmail, then it's unlikely that we'll have it for Translator Toolkit, as well, since we use the same infrastructure.)
What's the proposal, though - would you like for us to prevent publishing
of
articles if they have too many spelling errors, or simply warn the user
that
there are X spelling errors? Any input you can provide on preferred behavior would be great.
I would say to force spellcheck before publication, which does not seem to be the case currently. I think this would be enough - perhaps a warning as well. I don't know about preventing publication, although that might work too.
How about this: we pop up a window that says, "Your translation has misspelled words: X. Publish anyway?"
Does that work?
That sounds great to me.
Also, as far as Indic languages go, I would ask if there's any chance you have any Oriya speakers - with 637 articles, the Oriya Wikipedia is by far the most anemic of Indic-language Wikipedias, in spite of a speaker population of 31 million.
Oriya is one of the languages we'd love to work on. We don't have any activity on this today but if you have some Wikipedians who'd like to help us get this off the ground, we'd love to get their contact info and we can follow up from there.
Unfortunately, there is currently not even an Oriya Wikipedia community. I think such a project would need to be managed a bit differently - seeking to either create a community (no reason participants can't start a community), or to be relatively limited in scope, or else to have more stringent controls on content quality. I would love to help with that myself in any way possible.
Another option with a bit more community but still very underdeveloped is the Punjabi Wikipedia, with 1919 pages. I would recommend contacting Gman124 or Sukh at that project on their user talk pages or through the e-mail user function.
-m.