[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-19 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Thanks, Vermont, for the explanation! It is indeed good to notice that „good article“ is a specific term in English Wikipedia, but that other wiki communities define it differently. E.g., German WP calls these articles „articles worth to read“ (lesenswerte Artikel). For the Klexikon, we consider

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-17 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
Hi Ziko, Content on the Simple English Wikipedia is indeed very uneven. Though most of the project’s articles are stubs with not many issues, there are a lot of mid-size articles with sourcing and/or accuracy problems. And given the nature of Simple English, our good articles are not really

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-17 Thread Anupam Dutta
Hi All, For translation from English to Bengali, Google Translation does great jobs most of the time. But sadly it has not yet learnt all the basic numbers .. Regards Anupamdutta73 শুক্র, ১৭ ডিসেম্বর, ২০২১ তারিখে ৪:৩৩ PM টায় তারিখে Željko Blaće < zbl...@mi2.hr> লিখেছেন: > Hi All - it is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-17 Thread Željko Blaće
Hi All - it is an interesting discussion to have and compare experiences. For smaller languages the situation is much worse both on the level of technology (DeepL covers only a few languages, GoogleTranslate gets worse) and communities (having less human resources to correct on wikis and train

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-17 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello James, Interesting, what extra tools you have there. Andreas, in theory Simple English Wikipedia would be great as an international platform for the dissemination of articles. But in reality I have the impression that the content of S.E.WP is very uneven, the quality is very diverse. Galder,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-16 Thread James Heilman
Hey Ziko We have moved our medical translation efforts, such that MDWiki is our starting point. https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Translation_task_force 1) We have also encountered a reference template issue with CTX but have built a work around. Our issue appears to relate to and the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Thanks, Ziko. Does anyone use Simple English Wikipedia as a basis for their translations? I reckon DeepL – which is by far the best machine translation program around, in the languages it covers – might do an even better job with those (provided the Simple English article is itself of good

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Translating Wikipedia articles

2021-12-16 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks Ziko for your point of view, For a small Wikipedia like the Basque Wikipedia ContentTranslation is a game changer. Our partners from Elhuyar Foundation have been working with WMF to provide their machine translation system (Elia) so, now, we can translate between eu, es, ca, gl, fr and