History: Processes and tools for massively collaborative translation

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

Please tell us what you think about that below.

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For a detailed analysis of the issues, see this paper:

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

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Note that a bunch of people in this community are working on adding features to wiki engines in order to support that sort of thing.

See: Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project.

In fact, the wiki-translation site you are reading will probably be used as a first pilot site for those kinds of features.

For a demo of what a cross lingual wiki engine might feel like, see the following demo:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42kHzyVKsZw

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Examples of sites that face this sort of issue and use this sort of process:

Wikipedia:

• Has a translation project.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation

TraduWiki:

• A site where people can post public documents that they wish to see translated collaboratively in different languages.
• http://traduwiki.org/

Global Voices

• Translates interesting blogs in different languages. Not terribly collaborative, but...
• http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/

DotSub:

• Collaborative multilngual subtitling of videos.
• http://dotsub.com/

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