Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
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Re: Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
#2It's a great idea, but on the internet there's this strange subculture called "teenagers" who think foreign swearwords are hilarious.
Re: Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
#3It's a great idea, but on the internet there's this strange subculture called "teenagers" who think foreign swearwords are hilarious .
You're right. Facebook (and Wikipedia) have to deal with this same problem. This is why tr8n provides a mechanism for translators to vote on the quality of translations. And there are also admin tools for suspending translators, adding a vote threshold for translations to go live and a block list as well. Also, users can report a translation, which immediately puts the translator on a watch list.
Also, don't forget, in a crowd-source environment, there will almost always be more language protectors than vandals.
Re: Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
#4It's a great idea, but on the internet there's this strange subculture called "teenagers" who think foreign swearwords are hilarious .
You're right. Facebook (and Wikipedia) have to deal with this same problem. This is why tr8n provides a mechanism for translators to vote on the quality of translations. And there are also admin tools for suspending translators, adding a vote threshold for translations to go live and a block list as well. Also, users can report a translation, which immediately puts the translator on a watch list. Also, don't forget,…
Good, you've thought of smartarse response like mine. But I personally would still be wary.
Re: Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
#5This tool is _awesome_. I can say that having used it on my site. This is way, way, way better than Rails's built-in i18n.
Re: Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
#6It's a great idea, but on the internet there's this strange subculture called "teenagers" who think foreign swearwords are hilarious .
You're right. Facebook (and Wikipedia) have to deal with this same problem. This is why tr8n provides a mechanism for translators to vote on the quality of translations. And there are also admin tools for suspending translators, adding a vote threshold for translations to go live and a block list as well. Also, users can report a translation, which immediately puts the translator on a watch list. Also, don't forget,…
Any thought to integrate with Mechanical Turk? Some sites with lower visitor counts may not have the user base for this to work. I've written a Rails gem that makes Mechanical Turk integrations fairly trivial for Rails apps. (https://github.com/aantix/turkee) Hopefully this could help.
Re: Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
#7Something similar: Transifex
Built with Django.