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.
Or, we could have an option on the edit page. "import from: ", where you could specify the wiki that you want to import from, the source language, the destination language (or no translation whatsoever). It could load the machine-translated text into the edit window.
Just a thought...
Jason
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
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 ? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l