Forwarded this to the board list, and got two more personal opinions from members. Was waiting to get permission from them to post on this list before doing so.
Also, please keep in mind that these are personal opinions, no more or less.
Best
Bishakha
>> On 21-04-2010 21:44, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>> On 4/21/10 12:45 PM, Ting Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Generally I would prefer such questions solved inside of the community
>>>> and not by the foundation. The foundation cannot and should not solve
>>>> every problem in every project. Meta or foundation-l are also places to
>>>> search for advices and ask for experiences.
>>>>
>>> This is my view as well. And I don't think the Foundation should be
>>> seen as encouraging such projects using machine language against the
>>> interests of the community. If they find some good way to work with
>>> google on this, that's great, but if not, that's also great.
I am quite concerned about the kinds of issues that Ravi raises, and
believe that machine translation is, on net, more likely to be harmful
than helpful to most communities.
Bishakha, you may want to wait before posting back to the Listserv, to
get a broader view from other board members.
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