hi,
Thanks ivan/jimmy for responding...
Jimmy wrote:
all, for
many many topics,
en.wikipedia.org is the most convenient and best
reference,
and the content is available for free. But it is more generally the
case in
fr, de, ja, it, etc. that the articles are independent constructions
from
scratch.
I think, there will be 2 types of articles, ones translated from EN
wikipedia, and the regional language secific stuff that's contributed.
Until there is certain point, most of the content will only be
translations.
At the same time, I absolutely think that if you can
find a way to
get
access (is there some way that I can help, for example by writing a
letter to some authorities, or giving you a signature on an
application, or even paying money, if it is not too much?) for
wikipedia contributors to this state-funded agency's tool, then if it
helps a small number of contributors to work faster, then I am all
for
it.
Thanks, I believe, as the tool was developed under state funding, it
should be available for citizens, at least for non-commercial causes. I
have initiated communication with the concerned professor. It's great
to know, that the project can back efforts to get the resources. I will
definately come back to you ppl if I need to convince the authorities
for the software access.
What I would envision is that you would have to do a machine
translation and then immediately edit it to correct grammar and
meaning mistakes. Whether that would be faster or slower than either
writing the article from scratch or doing a human-translation
yourself, I do not know.
Yeh, sort of the auto translated docs checked by human editors before
publishing.
Thanks & regards,
Prasad gadgil.
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