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Word Processor – Not a Translator's Tool

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When I started translating, some time at the end of the previous century, it seemed obvious to me that the application I should use for translating is a word processor. A word processor is what you write and edit documents with, and what you want to create is a document, so that's the thing to …

Translation as Performance Art – the Wikipedia Translation Interface

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Recently I attended the August Penguin – an annual half day event about Linux and open source. The Penguin, specifically a cute Penguin names Tux, is the logo of the Linux operating system. During the one of the breaks I ran into Amir Aharoni, a linguist and a software developer who works for Wikimedia, the …