Translation the Wiki way

This paper discusses the design and implementation of processes and tools to support the collaborative creation and maintenance of multilingual wiki content. A wiki is a website where a large number of participants are allowed to create and modify content using their Web browser. This simple concept has revolutionized collaborative authoring on the web, enabling among others, the creation of Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia. On many of the largest and highest profile wiki sites, content needs to be provided in more than one language. Yet, current wiki engines do not support the efficient creation and maintenance of such content. Consequently, most wiki sites deal with the issue of multilingualism by spawning a separate and independent site for each language. This approach leads to much wasted effort since the same content must be researched, tracked and written from scratch for every language. In this paper, we investigate what features could be implemented in w...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Alain Désilets, Lucas Gonzalez, Sébastien Paquet, Marta Stojanovic
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Multilingual Wiki, Wiki, Wiki Engine, WIKIS 2006