[Wikimediaindia-l] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia

[Ravishankar]

Hi Arjun and others,

I will be mostly offline till 22nd December. Will answer your queries
regarding the Google translation project after that.

Sorry for the delay.

Thanks,

Ravi

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunaraoc at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the update.
>
> I think the updated  process is similar with Open source community
> philosophy when Commercial companies (like IBM, Sun etc) contribute source
> code.   Tamil Wiki has that kind of  rigor in quality checking and is able
> to do a good job. Other Wikipedias  may not be in a position to engage in a
> similar way, due to policies and/or  level of active wikipedians. One more
> comment below.
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some updates on the Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia.
>> --snip
>>
>>
>> We did a quality review of these articles and found that only around 50%
>> of them has an acceptable minimum quality regarding translation ( We just
>> rated the style of the language and accuracy in translation. We did not do a
>> full review on the merit of the article).
>> --snip--
>>
> Can you elaborate more on the style?  How did you measure the accuracy of
> translation? It may be desirable to adopt the English articles for the
> target wikipedia, than verbatim translation.
> How much effort was spent to arrive at the above conclusions?  # of
> articles, # of reviewers, time frame etc would help.
>
> Thanks
> Arjun
>
>
>
>
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