[Foundation-l] Push translation

[Oliver Keyes]

"If there are issues, they can be overcome. The fact of the matter is
that the vast majority of articles in English can be "pushed" over to
other  languages, and fill a need for those topics in those languages." - if
there are vast swathes in other languages that aren't filled, it's normally
indicative of a small userbase - a small userbase then having to cope with
copyediting hundreds or thousands of new articles all referenced in a
foreign language. In addition, wikis with vast gaps and small numbers of
users are likely to be those in "small" languages; an effective Chuvash
translation tool, say, is hardly a massive priority for most online
translators.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as push translation goes, there are languages where it could almost
> work and where it couldn't. (Consider the experience of the Google team
> with
> the Bengali Wikipedia -
> http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2010/07/translating-wikipedia.html )
>
> Bence
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