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

[Akash Mehta]

There are obviously some of us with excellent english and proofreading
skills, so if we could set up a system where people run articles
through online translators and rewrite the result into reasonable
English it would work. Obviously this would involve reading through
the whole thing, but it is possible. One thing I'm not too sure of -
can we really copy FA text from a non-en:wp to en:wp and still comply
with GFDL without stating every single contributor in the edit
summary?

On 9/21/06, Carl Peterson <carlopeterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 21/09/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, it's certainly an interesting idea, but it's usually a lot of hard
> > work
> > > to get a decent translation going. The article subject would have to be
> > > interesting to keep me motivated.
> >
> >
> > If you could pick an FA in another language and port it to the best
> > English-language article you can, and let us know what sort of numbers
> > of hours this takes, that would be most useful to know.
> >
> > (and, as Danny says, it beats arguing about people, process or policy)
>
>
> While I know using online translators is discouraged, if a person is
> familiar enough with a subject to be able to root out mistranslations and to
> rewrite it as coherent English (good prose in one language doesn't
> necessarily make good prose in another, hence the "it looses something in
> the translation" cliche), then I don't see why familiarity with another
> language is necessarily a requirement. I've found with the couple of
> articles I've looked at through Google's translation service that it does a
> passable job, especially if one is familiar with the the subject matter. The
> nice thing about Google's translator is that if you click a link on the
> translated page, the linked page will be translated for you as well.
>
> Carl
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