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

David Alexander Russell webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk
Fri Sep 22 12:59:47 UTC 2006


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Akash Mehta 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?

Couldn't we put the link to the contributors list on the other wiki into
the edit summary when pasting in the translation?

Cynical
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