Theres a fundamental rule in journalism That youre
missing Tarq -- (and Wikipedians ARE journalists -- in
the best sense, perhaps) The rule is:
"Get Something On the Page -- Period."
Imagine a big burly fat guy with a cigar yelling that
in your ear as your typing it up against your
deadline. Im not saying that I can go around
recommending machtransware as a cure for cancer -- I
am saying it is fast arriving -- and can be useful to
some people -- those talented at turning crap into
custard. If one is not so talented -- and does not
wish to be bothered with using it -- this should not
translate into them being bothered that its by others
being used. Is regular and assisted use can solve the
issue of perhaps seeding a modest degree of interest
in some of the other WP's -- which remain as they are,
stillborn. Translate that.
Respectfully,
-V-
--- tarquin <tarquin(a)planetunreal.com> wrote:
tarquin wrote:
I'll believe it when I see it.
HUMANS have difficulty translating. It's a very
imprecise art. A
computer would need to understand meaning to
effectively translate
anything beyond very basic sentences. I HOPE
Wikipedia articles are
written with a little more style than that!
Systrans, which you recommended, gives this in
French:
Les HUMAINS ont la traduction de difficult�. C'est
un art tr�s
impr�cis. Un ordinateur devrait comprendre la
signification pour
traduire efficacement n'importe quoi au del� des
phrases tr�s de
base. J'esp�re que des articles de Wikipedia sont
�crits avec peu
plus de mod�le que cela !
Now that is junk. A french wikipedian wanting to
clean this up might not
have a clue for some of the incorrect words.
They would need to refer back to the english version
to see what was
meant in the first place -- in other words, they
would have to be
bilingual. And a bilingual user might as well write
from scratch.
If you want concrete examples -- they would have no
way of knowing
"style" was meant by "modele" without translating
back into English and
doing some guesswork. They would probably think it
mean "I hope that
wikipedia articles are written with a better
template".
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