User talk:Arjunaraoc/Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia

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Vyzasatya's feedback[edit]

Hi Arjuna, I did copy edits in couple of sections. I was not sure if that is what you wanted me to do.

As far as the content goes, here are my comments in general about experience with GTP in Telugu

  • GTP volunteers had no clue of the whole environment surrounding the piece of text they were translating. None of them seemed to have any idea of Wikipedia style or article layout or things like Templates and Template variables.
  • I assume they also never checked their wikipedian accounts because when I tried to communicate with them by leaving a message on their talk page, they never responded back. They don't have any reason to visit Wikipedia as the tool handles the posting of article to Wikipedia.
  • Sentence structure in Telugu is completely opposite of that of English, so any word to word translation without changing the sentence structure, even if it is intelligible in some cases, sounds unnatural.

At some place in the article you say that GTP improved considerably, but your conclusions doesn't seems to agree with it. Do you think if GTP were to be used today, it will yield better translations, but your examples paragraphs don't agree to it. You may have explain some more regarding in what aspect it has improved.

I assume the page request data and various metrics shown in graphs are for total articles. Did you compare these all articles metrics with GTP article metrics? --వైజాసత్య (talk) 04:50, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • వైజాసత్య, Thanks for your feedback and copy edits. The draft requires lot of copy editing, which I encourage you to do, if you can spare time. I will also work on it. Google Translate as a technology improved considerably, but it is still not good enough for automated translation in either direction. I will try to clarify this distinction. The page request totals are available from stats.wikimedia.org website. I obtained GTP article information for non mobile page views from stat.grok.se site. I think I will have to amend the 201403, I guess to reflect the same.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 11:40, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]