On 7 Jun 2011 16:27:32 GMT, Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:55:28 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote: >> Chris Gonnerman <ch...@gonnerman.org> writes: >> >>> On the 30th of May, I received an email from a man (I'll leave out his >>> name, but it was properly male) offering to translate the docs for the >>> gdmodule (which I maintain) into Belorussian. [...] >> >> The same has happened on the gcc list, where it has been considered a >> scam. See, e.g., >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-05/msg00046.html >> >> and messages referenced therein. > > Interesting. That link leads to a discussion of presumed link > farmers using Google Translate to translate other people's pages, > in exchange for links. > > So I asked Google Translate to translate Chris Gonnerman's > page, http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html > , and the results were identical (on cursory examination) to > the page produced by Gonnerman's correspondent, as reported > in the original post. (I won't post that URL here lest I > support the farm.)
I was also asked for permission to translate a page from the PyQt site. I agreed to this and was given a link containing the translation. I declined to link to the page from my site (I will only link to sites with a proven track record.) I note that the page has now been removed. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
