[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] [[WP:100K]] - who here writes well in English and another language?

Thu Sep 21 15:23:42 UTC 2006

David Gerard wrote:
> If you could pick an FA in another language and port it to the best
> English-language article you can, and let us know what sort of numbers
> of hours this takes, that would be most useful to know.
>
> (and, as Danny says, it beats arguing about people, process or policy)
I translated an Italian featured article ([[Carlo Airoldi]]) earlier 
this year. It was short (only about 600 words) and it took probably 
about two or three hours. I have very little experience as a translator, 
though, and i think it could be done much quicker by a better Italian 
speaker with more experience of translation. The article in question 
would never have been featured on en, since it had no inline references 
and I wouldn't have even called it NPOV, which illustrated the problems 
with this sort of approach.

adam