John and All,
As a possible complement to this discussion, CC-4 MIT
OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School seeks to matriculate
students in all ~200 countries' official/main languages (
), and may
compensate them for work in a number of ways, including translation and
developing machine translation (and in all 7,099 living languages
eventually).
World Univ. and Sch. donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for
co-development, and got a new WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki last year in these
regards too.
Cheers, Scott
-
(each to become a major online University for free CC-4 OCW degrees)
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:49 PM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is a long time since everyone on these projects
were solely volunteers.
:)
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, and then there's always the question. If
he's getting paid, why
aren't
I? Why is he getting paid per word of article
translated? Why am I not
getting paid per spamvertisement deleted or vandal blocked? Why am I not
getting paid for closing discussions that it takes hours of reading input
and considering all sides and getting rocks thrown at me no matter what I
do? Is that not valuable to the project as well?
If you want to pay anyone, you better start paying me. I'm okay with the
idea of being a volunteer as long as everyone is a volunteer. But if you
start paying some people and not me, we're going to have a problem.
Todd
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
Those who pay get to select what is translated.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On
Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Béland
Sent: 24 February 2018 16:55
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation
I think the request for such projects should come from the concerned
language projects, same for the list of articles. If not, in my simple
opinion, it is a form of coloniasm again.
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Should have added that the remaining points are somewhat less
> > interesting in this context. Preloading a set of articles is a bad
> > idea, the translators should be able to chose for themselves.
Articles
> > should also be pretty broad, not very
narrow technical or medical, ie
> > vertical articles, as the number of editors that can handle those
will
> be pretty small.
> >
> > In particular: Do not believe you can turn a teanslator into a new
> editor!
> > You can although turn an existing editor into a translator.
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:34 PM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 1) You must start with high quality content and thus all articles
> > > are
> > >> extensively improved before being proposed for translation.
> > >
> > >
> > > Note that to much pressure on "quality" can easily kill the
project.
> > >
> > > 3) The "Content Translation" tool developed by the WMF made
efforts
> > > more
> > >> efficient than handing around word documents. Would love to see
> > >> that
> > tool
> > >> improved further such as having it support specific lists of
> > >> articles
> > that
> > >> are deemed ready for translation by certain groups. Would also
love
> > >> the tool to have tracking
metrics for these types of projects.
> > >
> > >
> > > Didn't mention ContentTranslation, but it should be pretty obvious.
> > >
> > > 4) We used volunteer translators mostly associated with our partner
> > >> Translators Without Borders. One issue we found was that languages
> > >> in which their are lots of translators such as French, Spanish,
and
> > >> Italian there is often already
at least some content on many of
the
> > >> topics in question.
> > The
> > >> issue than becomes integration which needs an expert Wikipedia.
And
> > >> for languages in which we have
little content there are often few
> > >> avaliable volunteers.
> > >
> > >
> > > I used projects below 65k articles as an example, as the chance of
> > > competing articles are pretty low.
> > >
> > > 5) With respect to "paying per word" the problem is this would
> > > require
> > >> significant checks and balances to make sure people are taking the
> > >> work seriously and not simple using Google translate for the 70 or
> > >> so
> > languages
> > >> in which it claims to work. We often had translations undergo a
> > >> second review and the volunteers at TWB have to pass certain tests
> > >> to be accepted.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'n my original email I wrote "verified good translators".
It is as
> > > simple as "Has the editor contributed other articles at the
project?"
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 2:26 PM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> We learned a few things during the medical translation project
> > >> which started back in 2011:
> > >>
> > >> 1) You must start with high quality content and thus all articles
> > >> are extensively improved before being proposed for translation.
> > >>
> > >> 2) A lot of languages want "less" content than is present on
EN
WP.
> > >> Thus we moved to just
improving and suggesting for translation the
> > >> leads of the English articles.
> > >>
> > >> 3) The "Content Translation" tool developed by the WMF made
efforts
> > >> more efficient than handing
around word documents. Would love to
> > >> see that
> > tool
> > >> improved further such as having it support specific lists of
> > >> articles
> > that
> > >> are deemed ready for translation by certain groups. Would also
love
> > >> the tool to have tracking
metrics for these types of projects.
> > >>
> > >> 4) We used volunteer translators mostly associated with our
partner
> > >> Translators Without Borders.
One issue we found was that languages
> > >> in which their are lots of translators such as French, Spanish,
and
> > >> Italian there is often already
at least some content on many of
the
> > >> topics in question.
> > The
> > >> issue than becomes integration which needs an expert Wikipedia.
And
> > >> for languages in which we have
little content there are often few
> > >> avaliable volunteers.
> > >>
> > >> 5) With respect to "paying per word" the problem is this
would
> > >> require significant checks and balances to make sure people are
> > >> taking the work seriously and not simple using Google translate
for
> > >> the 70 or so
> > languages
> > >> in which it claims to work. We often had translations undergo a
> > >> second review and the volunteers at TWB have to pass certain tests
> > >> to be accepted.
> > >>
> > >> 6) I hired a coordinator for the translation project for a couple
> > >> of years.
> > >> The translators at TWB did not want to become Wikipedians or learn
> > >> how
> > to
> > >> use our systems. The coordinator created account like TransSW001
> > >> (one
> > for
> > >> each volunteer) and preloaded the article to be translated into
> > >> Content Translation. They than gave the volunteer translator the
> > >> user name and password to the account.
> > >>
> > >> 7) Were are we at now? There are currently just over 1,000 leads
of
> > >> articles that have been
improved and are ready for translation.
> > >> This includes articles on the 440 medications that are on the WHO
> > >> Essential List. We have worked a bit in some 100 languages. The
> > >> efforts have resulted in more than 5 million works translated and
> > >> integrated into different Wikipedias. The coordinator has
> > >> unfortunately moved on to his real job
> > of
> > >> teaching high school students.
> > >>
> > >> 8) The project continues but at a slower pace than before. The
> > Wikipedian
> > >> and retired orthopedic surgeon Subas Chandra Rout has basically
> > >> single handedly translated nearly all 1,000 leads into Odia a
> > >> language spoken
> > by
> > >> 40 million people in Eastern India. The amazing thing is that for
> > >> many
> > of
> > >> these topics this is the first and only information online about
it.
> > >> Google
> > >> translate does not even claim to work in this language. Our
> > >> partnerships with WMTW and medical school in Taipai continue to
> > >> translate into
> > Chinese.
> > >> There the students translate and than their translations are
> > >> reviewed by their profs before being posted. They translate in
> > >> groups using hackpad
> > to
> > >> make it more social.
> > >>
> > >> I am currently working to re invigorate the project :-) James
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 5:51 AM, John Erling Blad
> > >> <jeblad(a)gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > This discussion is going to be fun! =D
> > >> >
> > >> > A little more than seventy Wikipedia-projects has more than 65k
> > >> articles,
> > >> > the remaining two hundred or so are pretty small.
> > >> >
> > >> > What if a base set of articles were opened for paid translators?
> > >> > There
> > >> are
> > >> > several lists of such base sets. We have both the thousand
> > >> > articles
> > from
> > >> > "List of articles every Wikipedia should have"[1] and
and the
ten
>
>> thousand
> >> > articles from the expanded list[2].
> >> >
> >> > Lets say verified good translators was paid about $0.01 per word
> (about
> >> $1
> >> > for a 1k-article) for translating one of those articles into
> >> > another language, with perhaps a higher pay for contributors in
> >> > high-cost countries. The pay would also have to be higher for
> >> > languages that
> lacks
> >> > good translation tools.
> >> >
> >> > I believe this would be an _enabling_ activity for the
> >> > communities, as without a base set of articles it won't be
> >> > possible to build a
> >> community at
> >> > all. By not paying for new articles, and only translating
> >> well-referenced
> >> > articles, some of the disputes in the communities could be
avoided.
> >> Perhaps
> >> > we should also identify good source articles, that would be a
help.
> > >> > Translated articles should be above some minimum size, but they
> > >> > does
> > not
> > >> > have to be full translations of the source article.
> > >> >
> > >> > A real problem is that our existing lists of good articles other
> > >> projects
> > >> > should have is pretty much biased towards Western World, so they
> > >> > need
> > a
> > >> lot
> > >> > of adjustments. Perhaps such a project would identify our
inherit
> > bias?
> > >> >
> > >> > [1]
> > >> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_
> > >> > Wikipedia_should_have
> > >> > [2]
> > >> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_
> > >> > Wikipedia_should_have/Expanded
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