Comments on: Social translation http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/2010/01/21/social-translation/ Blogging about translation and localization Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:48:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Valerij Tomarenko http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/2010/01/21/social-translation/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Valerij Tomarenko Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:29:29 +0000 http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/?p=313#comment-558 Thanks for the links. Recently, I posted some thoughts about social translators or rather the attitude to social /cloudsourced translation on part of professional LSP (I am a translator for Russian - English - German) on my blog: www.tomarenko.de/Blog. As of now, it is only in German, with some Engish quotations, but you could test Google Translate just as well. Once again, thanks for your blog. Thanks for the links. Recently, I posted some thoughts about social translators or rather the attitude to social /cloudsourced translation on part of professional LSP (I am a translator for Russian – English – German) on my blog: http://www.tomarenko.de/Blog. As of now, it is only in German, with some Engish quotations, but you could test Google Translate just as well. Once again, thanks for your blog.

]]> By: Julie http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/2010/01/21/social-translation/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Julie Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:13:40 +0000 http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/?p=313#comment-76 Thanks for the links, Chris. Your article is really interesting background information, and the Global Voices blog has some great statistics about the people behind crowdsourced translations. Thanks for the links, Chris. Your article is really interesting background information, and the Global Voices blog has some great statistics about the people behind crowdsourced translations.

]]> By: Chris http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/2010/01/21/social-translation/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Chris Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:16:05 +0000 http://mcdonough-dolmaya.ca/?p=313#comment-70 Hi Julie, Glad you're so interested in this topic! I wrote <a href="http://accurapid.com/journal/45global.htm" rel="nofollow">an article for Translation Journal</a> a couple years back on the topic, based on what is happening within Global Voices (now somewhat outdated, but still good as a backgrounder). I think this is a really important area for research, and there is a serious shortage of it. Another person I know who's doing research in this area is Ingrid Fischer, who focuses on China specifically (@yingeli on Twitter). You might want to also follow progress of the translation exchange at GV, described <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/11/global-the-polyglot-internet-and-translation-exchange/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and in <a href="http://translationexchange.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">this blog</a>. Besides that there is very little out there as far as I know. My particular focus has been on the second theme you mention ("analyzing the motivations behind those who participate in the project"). If you're interested I can send more details by email. Chris Hi Julie,

Glad you’re so interested in this topic! I wrote an article for Translation Journal a couple years back on the topic, based on what is happening within Global Voices (now somewhat outdated, but still good as a backgrounder).

I think this is a really important area for research, and there is a serious shortage of it. Another person I know who’s doing research in this area is Ingrid Fischer, who focuses on China specifically (@yingeli on Twitter). You might want to also follow progress of the translation exchange at GV, described here and in this blog. Besides that there is very little out there as far as I know.

My particular focus has been on the second theme you mention (”analyzing the motivations behind those who participate in the project”). If you’re interested I can send more details by email.

Chris

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