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Offering Your Content in 100 Languages
- Your vote:
- Yes No
- Organizer:
- Description:
- The web is growing at a rapid pace and in hundreds of different languages, but professionally translating content is expensive and time-consuming. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Representatives from successful translation projects share what works.
- Questions
Answered: -
- Which projects are good candidates for crowdsourcing?
- How do you recruit?
- How do you ensure quality?
- How do you get started?
- Can you manage translators if you don't speak the language they're translating into?
- How do you reward volunteers?
- What are the latest tools available?
- What about machine translation?
- Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?
- When is crowd-sourcing not a good idea?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Community / Online Community, Content, User Generated Content
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
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