Comment on How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped
Yoga@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This whole thing is just so incomprehensiblely stupid and real world usage numbers prove it:
According to Wikimedia Statistics, Cebuano Wikipedia currently reels in tens of thousands of page views from the Philippines each month.
English Wikipedia, meanwhile, gets more than 100 million Filipino viewers per month.
If people wanted AN AUTOMATED TRANSLATION they could just go to the English page and use one of the many free page translation tools that exist. Who even asked him to do this? Or is it just more white saviour complex?
It gives Philippine people the ability to edit the translation directly, eventually having their own version of it. As long as the information is correct and it’s only possible grammatical errors, this is quite a good thing to do.
I have translations in the apps I write, and I just generate an automatic translation for languages I do not speak. If anything is wrong, people will correct it and I’ll end up with a fully correct translation.
It is very common.
It gives Philippine people the ability to edit the translation directly
The minimum requirement for a page in their wiki should be exactly that. If it’s just AI translation, don’t do it. If it’s a translation that a human then fixed and tweaked to make readable, do it.
Please don’t! Or at least make it possible to change the app language instead of following the system if you do. Plenty of apps have faulty ‘translations’ that just make the app unusable. Especially because app text typically has no context, so you get these weird literal translations.
Enjoy finding a literal english translation that corresponds to something I may want to do in your app!
My apps default to the system language and use English as a fallback. If I implement multiple translations users can change it in their settings.
Anyways, like many other open source developers, I work for free and am open to PRs.
They’re so busy asking if they could they didn’t ask if they should.
Same with the guys who made the AR glasses that use face recognition to automatically dox people.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
It’s weird to do this at all but at least he targeted a language with tens of millions of speakers (most of whom are multilingual) and not, say, Scots