Hi Ziko,
Content on the Simple English Wikipedia is indeed very uneven. Though most of the project’s articles are stubs with not many issues, there are a lot of mid-size articles with sourcing and/or accuracy problems.
And given the nature of Simple English, our good articles are not really written in the same way that a good article in another language would necessarily be written, meaning that machine translation would likely require a lot more copyediting than usual to bring it to an acceptable level. For specifics, see: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_page...
Best regards, Vermont
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 03:55 Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello James, Interesting, what extra tools you have there. Andreas, in theory Simple English Wikipedia would be great as an international platform for the dissemination of articles. But in reality I have the impression that the content of S.E.WP is very uneven, the quality is very diverse. Galder, nice to hear of these initiatives and what is all possible in a joint action. Kind regards Ziko
Am Do., 16. Dez. 2021 um 19:59 Uhr schrieb James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com
:
Hey Ziko
We have moved our medical translation efforts, such that MDWiki is our
starting point.
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Translation_task_force
- We have also encountered a reference template issue with CTX but have
built a work around. Our issue appears to relate to <ref name=ABC/> and the same reference being used multiple times. What we do is we simply expand all the metadata for each instance of the reference before feeding the text into CTX. And then we have a bot that shortens all the instances of a reference back to one.
- One of the benefits of using MDWiki is it allows us to keep
references in the lead and use language that is easier to understand, but not be forced to use language as easy as Simple English. It has also allowed us to automatically generate a leaderboard to track progress and impact of our translation efforts. Additionally we only encourage people to translate the leads as that is only that has been medically checked for accuracy. https://mdwiki.toolforge.org/Translation_Dashboard/leaderboard.php
Best James
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 5:34 AM Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks, Ziko. Does anyone use Simple English Wikipedia as a basis for
their translations?
I reckon DeepL – which is by far the best machine translation program
around, in the languages it covers – might do an even better job with those (provided the Simple English article is itself of good quality, and worth translating).
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