[Wikipedia-l] Volapük Wikipedia is the 15th largest?

[Michael Bimmler]

On 10/9/07, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:03 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If a small wiki decides to fill out its page count with largely
> > > untranslated articles from en:wp, that's really not building a wiki or
> > > a community, is it.
> >
> > Exactly. If we wanted that we could adjust mediawiki to fall through
> > to the enwp text. ;)
> >
> > and If we wanted a machine translation we wouldn't bother with the
> > whole multiple wikis thing.
>
> Machine translation has a useful, and under-used place to play in the
> development of smaller Wikipedias.
>

If this is "machine translation with humane review", I might agree
with you. But just a bunch of automatically translated articles to
whatever topic won't help the reader much...

Michael

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