Multi-lingual ET? | 36 comments (36 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Indeed, in this case it is a perfectly appropriate way of doing thing. (Not so much the case in a corporate environment where the boss wants an interface to be able to say, "that button should go there" and moving his weight around).

The only thing that frightens me a bit is the necessary size of the community required to support that functioning ; it'd seem to need a thousand rather than a hundred participants. I hope either that I'm wrong or that ET will grow very quickly upon the introduction of multi-lingualism.

If someone has access to the ET database and copious amounts of free time : how many people have commented within the last month ?

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 07:36:49 AM EST
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I think the advantage is that with the machine translated versions always available it is possible to run the site primarily in English until some other languages begin to take-off. As I see it, there is no good way to start the thing immediately in many languages at once. I.e. the active community will not be available at first for most languages. Maybe with some pushing some of the better diaries into translations the process could be initiated? The ramp-up to have a larger portion of non-english speaking users might be slow. But without any infrastructure at all, it cannot happen.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 08:00:38 AM EST
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Yes, I'll agree.

There'll need to be some "promotion" in the various language blogging communities too, similar to the one made on DKos

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 08:05:04 AM EST
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I would probably start writing longer comments and diaries in swedish, machine-translate and then edit the english version to perfection. That would give most content produced by me in good swedish and reasonably good english, and machine-translations for other languages. If the machine-translations from swedish to english is good enough (or at least learns from corrections made, so that I do not have to correct the same errors over and over) time consumption/comment could stay roughly similar as I write faster in swedish.

Assuming similar behaviour among others whos first language is something other then english, we would soon get it good enough in some languages to attract members who are today excluded by the usage of english language. My guess would be that spanish and french will be among the first to attract users who will primarily use their first language.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 08:37:14 PM EST
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