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Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
- jacques_chester 16y agoIt's a great idea, but on the internet there's this strange subculture called "teenagers" who think foreign swearwords are hilarious.
- ninjudd 16y agoYou're right. Facebook (and Wikipedia) have to deal with this same problem. This is why tr8n provides a mechanism for translators to vote on the quality of translations. And there are also admin tools for suspending translators, adding a vote threshold for translations to go live and a block list as well. Also, users can report a translation, which immediately puts the translator on a watch list. Also, don't forget, in a crowd-source environment, there will almost always be more language protectors than vandals.
- jacques_chester 16y agoGood, you've thought of smartarse response like mine. But I personally would still be wary.
- aantix 16y agoAny thought to integrate with Mechanical Turk? Some sites with lower visitor counts may not have the user base for this to work. I've written a Rails gem that makes Mechanical Turk integrations fairly trivial for Rails apps. (https://github.com/aantix/turkee https://github.com/aantix/turkee) Hopefully this could help.
- somezack 16y agoThis tool is _awesome_. I can say that having used it on my site. This is way, way, way better than Rails's built-in i18n.
- lost-theory 16y agoSomething similar: Transifex http://www.transifex.net/ http://www.transifex.net/ Built with Django.