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Is C-S only for non-profit organisations? If you want translation done, your options are: * Professional translation ** Large expensive shops ** Mom and pop shops * Crowd-sourcing * Machine Translation Crowd-sourcing is sort of in between in terms of: * Volume * Cost * Quality Not clear that C-S will make a clear dent in the demand-offer gap. In Wikipedia, contributions follow a power law with a relatively small number doing most of the contributions. But long tail still very relevant, cause these small changes and corrections amount to much. Wikipedia versus translation C-S. WP contribution more coarse (can't parallelise at a sentence level). But translation can be parallelised that way. Should C-S translation be parallelised at a document or sentence level? Indirect crowdsourcing. Ex: Page Rank is based on links created by a very large crowd. What are the killer apps for crowdsourced translation? What does C-S give you: * Facebook: time to market (translate your product in 1 day) * User participation * Outreach Could C-S used as a way to decrease lead-time in a professional translators situation * Ex: If ProZ deployed a platform for parallelizing large translation tasks to professional members of their network. Will C-S dramatically affect livelyhood of professional translators? * Will put downward pressures on cost for sure. * But may create new oppportunities for new kinds of work (like Open Source did in Sofware Dev). ** QQ ** Coaching the crowd ** Terminology management, creating resources to help the crowd ** Coordination What knds of tasks are not being done by profs now: * Short lived, dynamic content * Languages with small markets, but with motivated native crowd * Companies with small international outreach * Content produced by non-profit orgs What kinds of content ARE being translated by C-S now: * Fan translation: Content that you are personally attached to * TedTalks: high profile content * YOur favourit app (ex: Facebook)

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