[okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic

Thu Mar 14 14:38:07 UTC 2013

Hi Heath,

Welcome to the list, good to have you here!

Crowdsourcing translations could surely be a way to go. If anyone out there
would be interested in engaging in such activity, please dive into this
conversation.

-Christian

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:45:34 -0500
> From: heath rezabek <heath.rezabek at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic
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> There seem to be a few projects around to apply crowdsourcing techniques to
> translation; I wonder if any of these platforms are open to OKfn
> collaboration, or if this would make sense as a way to optimize
> resources...
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> One example is MonoTrans:
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/
>
> (By the way hello all, and thanks to Sam for pointing me to the -discuss
> list.  Just starting out in involvement w/OKfn, but excited!)
>
> - Heath
>
> On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Christian Villum wrote:
>
> >> Dear All
> >> ?
> >> ??? I wonder if any one here who speaks Arabic and would like to
> >> translate the OFKN
> >> ?? into Arabic ?
> >> ?
> >> ?
> >> Regards
> >> ?
> >> Mohammed Hashim
> >
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