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

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 9/22/06, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:
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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?
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> Couldn't we put the link to the contributors list on the other wiki into
> the edit summary when pasting in the translation?
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> Cynical


You could, but why not simply link to the article instead of the edit
history? It's a lot shorter and provides pretty much the same info if you
know where to click.