hi,

Thanks ivan/jimmy for responding...

Jimmy wrote:

all, for many many topics, en.wikipedia.org is the most convenient and best reference, and the content is available for free. But it is more generally the case in fr, de, ja, it, etc. that the articles are independent constructions from scratch.

I think, there will be 2 types of articles, ones translated from EN wikipedia, and the regional language secific stuff that's contributed. Until there is certain point, most of the content will only be translations.

At the same time, I absolutely think that if you can find a way to get access (is there some way that I can help, for example by writing a letter to some authorities, or giving you a signature on an application, or even paying money, if it is not too much?) for wikipedia contributors to this state-funded agency's tool, then if it helps a small number of contributors to work faster, then I am all for it.

Thanks, I believe, as the tool was developed under state funding, it should be available for citizens, at least for non-commercial causes. I have initiated communication with the concerned professor. It's great to know, that the project can back efforts to get the resources. I will definately come back to you ppl if I need to convince the authorities for the software access.

What I would envision is that you would have to do a machine translation and then immediately edit it to correct grammar and meaning mistakes. Whether that would be faster or slower than either writing the article from scratch or doing a human-translation yourself, I do not know.

Yeh, sort of the auto translated docs checked by human editors before publishing.

Thanks & regards, Prasad gadgil.

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