[Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

[Mark Williamson]

Shiju, just FYI, tool kit can be used by anyone for translation. In
fact, it's good to use because (if you choose the option) it will go
toward improving future machine translation capability for your
language, thus expanding possibilities for monolingual speakers of
your language. In addition, "machine aided translation", in which an
article is translated by machine and then corrections are made, can be
a much speedier yet still accurate way to create articles.

-m.


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com> wrote:
> This topic came up while we were discussing about Google's translation
> effort. Google/Google employees are using Google tool kit to translate
> English Wikipedia articles to many of the Indic language Wikipedias.
>
>
> We are definitely more interested if Google translates these user required
> articles than translating  the English wiki articles about all the american
> pop stars (For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga). Now the
> issue is, we don't have such list to give to Google/Google employees.
>
>
>
>
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> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1. This would be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis.
>> -m.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian (
>> > http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small
>> > wikipedias like ours. He is one the few users who is keen on creating new
>> > articles *based on the requirement of our readers*. (Of course we have
>> many
>> > people who only reads our wiki)
>> >
>> > During discussion he raised this interesting point:
>> >
>> > Some feature is required in the MediaWiki software that enable us to see
>> a
>> > list of keywords used most frequently by the users to search for
>> non-exist
>> > articles. If we get such a list then some users like him can concentrate
>> on
>> > creating articles using that key words.
>> >
>> > Of course, I know that this feature may not be helpful for big wikis like
>> > English. But for small wikis (especially small non-Latin language wikis),
>> > this will be of great help. It is almost like* creating wiki articles
>> based
>> > on user requirement*.
>> >
>> >
>> > I would like to know your opinion regarding the same.
>> >
>> >
>> > Shiju
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