On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of all human knowledge?
Consider that Google Translate has the best machine translation corpus,
I think it is too early for this.
Don't forget that there aren't a Wikipedia, but Wikipedias. Each language version of Wikipedia has slightly different viewpoints/bias. Which will you chose to be the source for the translations then?
And why partner with Google? There are Free alternatives in development:
http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page