History: BabelWiki08 Social dynamics of cross-lingual collaboration

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! Social dynamics of cross lingual collaboration Notes of card storming meeting for "Social dynamics of cross lingual collaboration" in ((BabelWiki08)) Workshop. The three card on this cluster were: # Economics of Wiki translation # Social Engineering. How to encourage (& guide) volunteers # How to get students to collaborate in Wiki creation & and move them from inaction We started with the question about what are the main factors that motivate people to translate content. Some ideas came into the discussion: * We have the sensation that 2% of users in Wikipedia, as a reference, do create content, and 98% of the users just read that content. What could we do to motivate another 2% of users to participate in translating current content? * In some educational scenarios (mainly university degrees related to translation) many students have fun translating content. * Some times we have the sensation that we created a solution which is looking for a problem to be solved, even if sometimes, we agree that the problem existed but it was not explicitly formulated. * In some cases, unique page names using the UTF-8 character set are desired and pursued, but issues are still present with some browser not supporting them (or not by default and users don't know how to set that browser to support UTF-8) * We need to edit web interfaces to allow users provide translation with the minimum number of clicks. * motivation factors for translators are similar to the ones which motivate wiki editors in general * some wiki translators do contribute because they have fun doing it. They like their job. * Translation Machines (TM) are being used nowadays more than before because TM nowadays do the job that they said they were going to do (i.e. the are increasing their efficiency). * Success use cases for usage of TM: ** Software documentation, being translated to other languages ** Agile software development, in special ** Technical manuals ** Burocratic documents ... ''(to be continued)''

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