In message 3F1662E7.1020701@planetunreal.com, tarquin tarquin=ivGM6J5ThX418oCzpIvf9w@public.gmane.org writes
Jason Richey wrote:
To this end, we might as well spawn a new project... A project that takes the en wikipedia data dump and passes it through Babelfish or the like.
Could we please return to the real world? Machine translations are sometimes vaguely useful for getting the gist of something. but by and large, they are pure crud. dealing with such a machine translation would be WORSE for the writer than starting with a blank page.
I quite agree, apart from the fact that I can't envisage Babelfish "or the like" ever being set up to translate many of the lesser-used languages we have wikipedias set up for.