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Re:Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails by ninjudd on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:34PM (#1977299)
You'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.

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Re:Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails by aantix on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:13PM (#1977731)
Any 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) Hopefully this could help.
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Re:Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails by jacques_chester on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:45PM (#1977331)
Good, you've thought of smartarse response like mine. But I personally would still be wary.
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