Hi, Yesterday I was asked some tricky questions by a journo. They were something like this :
*" Does the surge of number of Indian language Wikipedia articles has anything to do with paid translations by Google ?"* * * *"Why should regular Wikipedians be motivated to contribute when Google pays to do the same ?"*
I didn't answer them due to the sensitivity of the issue. But I am now curious on a statistical point of view.
I am not referring to the philosophical question on whether paid editing is good or bad.
But is there a way to find how many of the articles created in last year were created by normal editors/bots and Google translators in each of the Indian language Wikipedias? Somebody told me , the translators are supposed to leave the translate URLs of Google in the edit summaries to get paid?
Which are the languages on which Google translations are happening ? I know it happens on Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu, at least. Any other ? I know it is banned to Bengali & Malayalam.
Regards Tinu Cherian