[Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Jun 10 17:31:29 UTC 2009


Brian wrote:
> Of course these are now things that you are able to fix and which can be
> shared with everyone.
>   

Sure, the funny errors are the most obvious and most easily fixed.  The 
problematic ones are more subtle, remain unnoticed, and more readily 
spread misunderstanding.

Ec
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sometimes cities are "translated" - "Koper" was translated to English
>> from Slovene as "Chicago" and "Kranj" as "Miami"... of course Kranj is
>> 100km inland and Miami is largely beachfront and the opposite with
>> Chicago and Koper.
>>     




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