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Comment author: Thomas 04 January 2012 04:13:45PM 0 points [-]

They say, Wikipedia could be translated from English to Spanish in just 80 hours their way.

I doubt, it would be without major errors.

Never the less, it is a moderately interesting idea.

Comment author: bradm 04 January 2012 08:58:49PM 3 points [-]

I doubt, it would be without major errors.

I don't see why it can't be done without major errors. My understanding is that they give the same text to be translated to a large number of users and then use an algorithm to find the most probable translation. Whether there are "major errors" will depend on how well it is implemented.