On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:30 AM, James Heilman wrote:
>
> > A Committee to Deal with Content Issues
> >
> > Wikipedia does not seem to have any formal arbitration committee that
> deals
> > with content.
> >
> The Mediation Committee?
> __
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:30 AM, James Heilman wrote:
> A Committee to Deal with Content Issues
>
> Wikipedia does not seem to have any formal arbitration committee that deals
> with content.
>
The Mediation Committee?
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A Committee to Deal with Content Issues
Wikipedia does not seem to have any formal arbitration committee that deals
with content. I have been involved in a number of cases in which such a
committee would be exceedingly useful ( ADHD, Rorschach test, abortion,
etc.). Currently I am involved in a
P.S. Chatting to Mark off-list about GTTK, and having experimented with other
languages, it appears that GTTK quality varies widely depending on the language
pair, and probably the source/target direction.
German, Hindi and Japanese are definitely handled poorly; some other language
combinatio
> I read that thread and noticed a lot of confusion. One translator
> admitted she never even tried it, but still had lots of negative stuff
> to say; more than one person said they found it useful (see
> Esperantisto's response), and other people seemed to not realize there
> was a difference betw
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> ...
> Is there any good free software for aligning parallel texts and
> extracting translations? Looking around, I found NAtools,
> TagAligner, and Bitextor, but they require texts to be marked
> up already. Are these the best and most modern
Tim Starling wrote:
> On 09/08/10 03:17, James Alexander wrote:
>> Global locking does not have any autoblock like feature and we have a large
>> portion of our xwiki abusers (and even a growing number of those who only
>> attack only one or two sites and have figured out the global login system)
>
I read that thread and noticed a lot of confusion. One translator
admitted she never even tried it, but still had lots of negative stuff
to say; more than one person said they found it useful (see
Esperantisto's response), and other people seemed to not realize there
was a difference between Google
--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > You won't find many professional
> translators using GTTK for their work.
>
> [citation needed]
Professional translators and translation agencies tend to use systems like
Trados or Wordfast, building their own translation memories relevant to the
On 09/08/10 03:17, James Alexander wrote:
> Global locking does not have any autoblock like feature and we have a large
> portion of our xwiki abusers (and even a growing number of those who only
> attack only one or two sites and have figured out the global login system)
> who will take advantage
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Platonides wrote:
> Aaron Adrignola wrote:
> > I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be
> created
> > to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much
> to
> > eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I d
Aaron Adrignola wrote:
> I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
> to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
> eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
> however. I've checked the SUL statuses for
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Adrignola
wrote:
> I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
> to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
> eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
> however. I
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
however. I've checked the SUL statuses for many of these accounts blocked
> You won't find many professional translators using GTTK for their work.
[citation needed]
-m.
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While I've had my own issues with Stewards reaching into local communities I
actually think these blocks are important and very useful for our xwiki
abusers. While the transparency reasoning that Pathoschild mentioned is true
and important just as if not more important is the autoblocks (where at
l
Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
> wrote:
>> It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
>> English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse > locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >".
>
> These local blocks are m
That would be an acceptable solution. Thanks.
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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
> wrote:
> > It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
> > English language Wikibooks with t
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
wrote:
> It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
> English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >".
These local blocks are made when the account has been globally locked
by a
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse ". This has been occurring since March. In
every case I've checked the user in question has a unified account and in
nearly all cases they have not made any edits l
--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> This is where our experience differs. I'm working faster
> with the Google
> Translator Toolkit than without.
Whether "faster" or not is a function of a number of variables:
- How well do you know the languages and subject matter concerned? Do you rel
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