UMSF translate, improving on google Options

[ngunn]

Clearly we have members here who can translate to English from Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, French, Irish, Chinese, American etc. They all have subject knowledge too. Is it worth setting up a translation service here indepenent of google?

[Astro0]

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It is perhaps something to consider for the future.
We do have a lot of members with multi-language skills, but of course it is dependent on their time and willingness to do the translation work which can be lengthy.

Pandenko has done a wonderful job for us over the years with Japanese information and others have helped out a lot with interpreting Chinese and Russian content.

The Admin/Mod team are hoping to deploy an updated version of the IPBoard software in the next few months, which may provide new and better ways for members to share content.
I think we can put any formal process on a translation service on hold till then.

In the meantime, I would encourage any members with good multi-language skills who would like to translate documents to do so and provide links to that work (either through a blog or an attached Word or PDF document, rather than putting fully translated text and image content directly on the Forum itself.
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