Theres a fundamental rule in journalism That youre missing Tarq -- (and Wikipedians ARE journalists -- in the best sense, perhaps) The rule is:
"Get Something On the Page -- Period."
Imagine a big burly fat guy with a cigar yelling that in your ear as your typing it up against your deadline. Im not saying that I can go around recommending machtransware as a cure for cancer -- I am saying it is fast arriving -- and can be useful to some people -- those talented at turning crap into custard. If one is not so talented -- and does not wish to be bothered with using it -- this should not translate into them being bothered that its by others being used. Is regular and assisted use can solve the issue of perhaps seeding a modest degree of interest in some of the other WP's -- which remain as they are, stillborn. Translate that.
Respectfully, -V-
--- tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
tarquin wrote:
I'll believe it when I see it. HUMANS have difficulty translating. It's a very
imprecise art. A
computer would need to understand meaning to
effectively translate
anything beyond very basic sentences. I HOPE
Wikipedia articles are
written with a little more style than that!
Systrans, which you recommended, gives this in French:
Les HUMAINS ont la traduction de difficult�. C'est un art tr�s impr�cis. Un ordinateur devrait comprendre la signification pour traduire efficacement n'importe quoi au del� des phrases tr�s de base. J'esp�re que des articles de Wikipedia sont �crits avec peu plus de mod�le que cela !
Now that is junk. A french wikipedian wanting to clean this up might not have a clue for some of the incorrect words.
They would need to refer back to the english version to see what was meant in the first place -- in other words, they would have to be bilingual. And a bilingual user might as well write from scratch.
If you want concrete examples -- they would have no way of knowing "style" was meant by "modele" without translating back into English and doing some guesswork. They would probably think it mean "I hope that wikipedia articles are written with a better template".
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