Hi, all.
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On Jun 19, 2012, at 01:59 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> There is currently an enormous backlog at Articles for Creation, of over
> 700 articles.
>
> If you've got some time spare, it'd be great if you could help wor
A claim made here about Duolingo and translating Wikipedia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017
"With 100,000 active users, von Ahn says Duolingo could translate
Wikipedia from English into Spanish in five weeks. With one million
users, it would take about 80 hours."
Our article on Duoli
PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how
different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on
the same topic (i.e. they are rarely direct translations if
independent editing of the articles is being done). Also, I'm not
clear if they are saying that this woul
And what's even worse, the very different templates used in each
language version.
2012/6/20 Carcharoth
>
> PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how
> different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on
> the same topic (i.e. they are rarely direct transl
On 20 June 2012 13:15, Carcharoth wrote:
> A claim made here about Duolingo and translating Wikipedia:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017
>
> "With 100,000 active users, von Ahn says Duolingo could translate
> Wikipedia from English into Spanish in five weeks. With one million
> users
On 20 June 2012 13:22, Andrew Gray wrote:
> One caveat that may be relevant to von Ahn's mention of Wikipedia:
> "...in the case of French, they are from the French version of
> Vikidia, a Wikipedia fork that’s basically a simple version of French
> Wikipedia intended for 8–13 year old children.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Matthew Bowker
wrote:
> Even through all that, I believe AfC needs to exist. It does provide a
> great service to anon editors who won't create accounts for whatever reason.
The only reason that makes any sense would be that they don't realize
how easy it is to c
On 20 June 2012 05:29, David Gerard wrote:
> On 20 June 2012 13:22, Andrew Gray wrote:
>> One caveat that may be relevant to von Ahn's mention of Wikipedia:
>> "...in the case of French, they are from the French version of
>> Vikidia, a Wikipedia fork that’s basically a simple version of French
>
On 20 June 2012 13:20, Carcharoth wrote:
> PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how
> different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on
> the same topic (i.e. they are rarely direct translations if
> independent editing of the articles is being done). Als
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:25:31 + (GMT), Matthew Bowker wrote:
> Even through all that, I believe AfC needs to exist. It does
> provide a great service to anon editors who won't create accounts
> for whatever reason.
Are supporters of AfC known as "creationists"?
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