[okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic

Fri Mar 15 06:25:05 UTC 2013

Dear All 
    Crowdsourcing translations is really a powerful tool , we are currently using it to translate openfoodfacts.org into Arabic ....let's start the work here !

Regards 
Mohammed Hashim 

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 From: Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org>
To: okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org 
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2013, 18:38
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic

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...
>
>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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