History: BabelWiki08 meeting notes

This page is the starting point for taking notes and organizing them during the BabelWiki'08 workshop.

Start writing now!

Please write your issues, ideas and concerns here before the workshop, as a way to provide a quick head start. (Please put your name next to each.)

During the CardStorming stage of the workshop, we will add to this list and cluster items by theme.

1.1.1. List of Themes

• Collaboratively building free and open dictionaries

• What processes and tools are needed to translate content that is constantly being edited collaboratively by a large community of anonymous authors? - Alain Désilets

• How might translators benefit from open wiki-like translation resources? - Alain Désilets

• Your idea here

1.2. Breakout session notes

Here are the notes from the various breakout sessions:

text Collaboration between professionals & amateurs

• professional vs amateur

- paid translators => "professionals"
- non-paid => "amateurs"
- "established providers" vs. the "actual/occasional users"
- who can afford which tools ?

• online translation market places

- value ?
- freelancers => agency takes 50% to 90% cut
- new online platforms => grow into new gateways
- long tail theory
- e.g. Amazon, iTunes music store
- natural evolution ?

• open source tools

- poutin => edit PO files
- learning curve vs. license price of commercial tools
- support ?
- use of open formats - e.g. within LISA

• Google Translation engine

- who contributes traslations ?
- vs. open source TM tools

• Ownership of translated content by a freelancer

- terms are shared
- not full texts - copyright issues

• text edits on translation-related subjects on Wikipedia

- several versions
- no source & target languages - translation are developed parallel

• collab. between prof. & amateur

- e.g. list of "false friends"

1.3. Software demos

Below is a list of software that was demoed at the workshop. If you have something that you plan to demo, write down a short description right away. Please write down your name beside each.

• Alain Désilets: WeBiText, a large translation memory based on multilingual content mined from the web.
  • http://www.webitext.ca/

1.4. Chat

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