History: Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project Proposal

Massively collaborative sites like wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr and SecondLife are revolutionizing the way in which content is produced and consumed world wide. These new technologies and paradigm will also significantly impact the way that content is translated.

The traditional top-down command and control paradigms which are most commonly used to translate content today are simply not appropriate in a context where content is grown organically from the grassroot.

Consequently, the Cross Lingual Wiki Engine project aims at designing, developing and testing lightweight tools and processes that can better deal with translation of content in this new frontier. In the course of