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

[Carl Peterson]

In order,

I would agree with such a system, especially if the people running articles
through the translators already had a working knowledge of the language from
which they were translating. This would help in the rewrite as they would
generally be aware of common mistranslations.

I don't think that's a problem, especially if we state that we are adding
translated text from a given language Wikipedia.

Carl

On 9/21/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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