[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

Fajro faigos at gmail.com
Sun May 31 06:50:40 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably
> assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve
> its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of
> all human knowledge?
>
> Consider that Google Translate has the best machine translation corpus,

I think it is too early for this.

Don't forget that there aren't a Wikipedia, but Wikipedias.
Each language version of Wikipedia has slightly different viewpoints/bias.
Which will you chose to be the source for the translations then?

	
And why partner with Google? There are Free alternatives in development:

http://www.apertium.org/

http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page

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