[Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

Michael Peel email at mikepeel.net
Wed Jun 23 18:53:22 UTC 2010


On 23 Jun 2010, at 16:23, David Gerard wrote:

> Reliance on Google for what is really an essential function for those
> who aren't native English speakers is problematic because it's (a)
> third-party (b) closed. Same reason we don't use reCaptcha.

I always think than not using reCaptcha is a shame, as it's a nice way to get people to proofread text in a reasonably efficient way. It would be really nice if someone could create something similar that proofreads OCR'd text from Wikisource... <hint, hint>.

Mike


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