[Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

[Denny Vrandečić]

Using a rather simple pair like Afrikaans - Dutch or a heavily researched
one like English - Spanish would be giving us a wrong impression of how
this will scale. We should at least add a few random pairs like Yoruba -
Gujarati or Kazakh - Lombard. Most of our 67,000 language pairs that we
will have to cover will fall in the latter group, not in the first two.


2013/8/23 David Cuenca <dacuetu at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > As with so many things, it will be hard to assess cost/benefits without
> > > making some effort. A safe bet could be to try with an existing pair or
> > > develop a pair with an estimated high demand.
> >
> > Is there a pair where some work has already been done?
> >
>
> For Apertium there are quite a few already done:
> http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> Regarding new language pairs, no idea if the priorities for Wikipedia would
> be the same as the priorities the Apertium community has.
> It might be worth considering which languages to prioritize and how to
> measure success or lack thereof.
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
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