[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] [[WP:100K]] - who here writes well in English and another language?

[David Gerard]

On 21/09/06, adam <underthechair at gmail.com> wrote:

> I translated an Italian featured article ([[Carlo Airoldi]]) earlier
> this year. It was short (only about 600 words) and it took probably
> about two or three hours. I have very little experience as a translator,
> though, and i think it could be done much quicker by a better Italian
> speaker with more experience of translation. The article in question
> would never have been featured on en, since it had no inline references
> and I wouldn't have even called it NPOV, which illustrated the problems
> with this sort of approach.


Heh. Yes, the translated version is definitely not en: FA standard ...
but it's a vast improvement on what was there before and was clearly
work of value to the project. Hmm. Would you ever do one again?


- d.