Hoi, Having only English Wikipedia content and translate is a certain way of bringing biased information to all nooks and crannies of this world. On one hand it will definitely bring more information out and that is GOOD. However, as the translation would be onlu one way, it is not possible to remedy the perceived and real biases.
This is translation using bots.. it is not necessary machine translation and it is certainly not as good as machine translation gets.
Thanks, GerardM
On 10/9/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/9/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
If a small wiki decides to fill out its page count with largely untranslated articles from en:wp, that's really not building a wiki or a community, is it.
Exactly. If we wanted that we could adjust mediawiki to fall through to the enwp text. ;)
and If we wanted a machine translation we wouldn't bother with the whole multiple wikis thing.
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