In message 20030713191019.GA3465@tavaiah, Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw=Rn4VEauK+AKRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org writes
Just wondering - how much would it cost to hire translators that would translate all contents of English Wikipedia to some 20 or so languages ? Common sense suggests that translating is much easier than developing anew, yet we keep doing it the hard way.
I'm not saying that translated English Wikipedia should replace other 'pedias, but these translations could be used as sources for them.
Any estimates in manhours or cash ?
As an experiment I've just spent half the afternoon translating most of the English article on Argentina to cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yr_Ariannin -- I can't think of anything more soul-destroying if it was done on a large scale.