On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably
> assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve
> its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of
> all human knowledge?
>
> Consider that Google Translate has the best machine translation corpus,
I think it is too early for this.
Don't forget that there aren't a Wikipedia, but Wikipedias.
Each language version of Wikipedia has slightly different viewpoints/bias.
Which will you chose to be the source for the translations then?
And why partner with Google? There are Free alternatives in development:
http://www.apertium.org/
http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page
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△ ℱajro △
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