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. Indeed, the traditional top-down command and control translation paradigms commonly used today are simply not appropriate in a context where content is grown organically from the grassroot.

The Cross Lingual Wiki Engine project aims at designing, developing and testing lightweight wiki tools that can be used to translate content in this new frontier. The following paper provides an overview of the type of tools we are thinking about:

• http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48736_e.html

We are actively looking for partners who can provide in-kind and/or monetary resources to help advance this highly relevant project. We are particularly short on programming resources.

Project Participants

During a meeting at the WikiSym 2007 conference, the following people pledged resources to the project.

Name and Affiliation	Amount pledged	Type of resource
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada	0.5 day per week for 12 months	Requirements Gathering, Programming, Testing and Evaluation
Louis-Philippe Huberleau, TikiWiki	4 months full time	Programming
Marc Laporte, TikiWiki	????	????
Nelson Ko, Carleton U	????	Requirements Gathering, Testing and Evaluation
Sebastien Paquet, UQO	???	???
Cola Nahaboo, ILOG	Some of his time? + a full time intern for how long?	Requirements Gathering, Programming

Project Plan

The project will use an agile, incremental approach to develop the tools.

Nov-Dec 2007: Requirements Gathering, User-Centered Design.
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