[Foundation-l] Cross-wiki defective translations in Korean

Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette at wikimedia.org
Sun Oct 11 15:12:35 UTC 2009


Woojin,

You are welcome to correct the bad translations... it's a wiki, after  
all :-)  We welcome any improvement to translation on strategy wiki.

Philippe


On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Woojin Kim wrote:

> It means both "bad grammar" and "cannot understand". Because he is  
> using
> Machine translations. In Korean, Grammar is very important to tell
> informations accurately. Since his grammar is terrible, translation  
> is very
> confusable and even cannot be understood.
>
> 2009/10/11 effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>
>
>> do you mean poor as in "bad quality, grammar is all wrong" or as in  
>> "he
>> tells a totally different thing, on purpose perhaps"?
>>
>> -- Lodewijk
>>
>> 2009/10/11 Woojin Kim <kwj2772 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> First, I apologize if I sent wrong email list.
>>>
>>> I'd like to report wrong/defective translations has been being  
>>> created in
>>> Korean on MetaWiki and StrategyWiki. I suspect these poor  
>>> translations is
>>> made by PauloHelene and his socks and/or IPs. (Some of IPs are  
>>> used in
>> Ajou
>>> University <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajou_University>. Also  
>>> you can
>>> see
>>> his various IP address
>>> here<
>>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:PauloHelene&action=history
>>>> ).
>>> They made a lot of bad translations so it is impossible to fix  
>>> them in
>>> short
>>> time.
>>>
>>> And he is showing abusive behaivours in Wikitravel Shared. and his
>> request
>>> for translator right in translatewiki.net has been denied. (Archived
>>> requests for translator
>>> rights<http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Translator/Archive/2009/3 
>>> >
>>> Section
>>> 126). Korean Wikipedia also discussed several time
>>> (here<
>>>
>> http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EC%82%AC%EB%9E%91%EB%B0%A9/2009%EB%85%84_%EC%A0%9C21%EC%A3%BC#.EB.8F.84.EC.99.80.EC.A3.BC.EC.84.B8.EC.9A.94
>>> .>
>>> and
>>> here<
>>>
>> http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EC%82%AC%EB%9E%91%EB%B0%A9/2009%EB%85%84_%EC%A0%9C39%EC%A3%BC#PauloHelene_.EA.B4.80.EB.A0.A8_.EB.AC.B8.EC.A0.9C
>>>> )
>>> for his poor translations but there is no fundamental solution to  
>>> prevent
>>> him from editing.
>>>
>>> Please take actions to prevent him from abusing. Some advices are  
>>> also
>>> welcome. Thank you.
>>>
>>> --
>>> 김우진
>>> Woojin Kim
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