Collaborative translation
Encyclopedia
Collaborative translation is a type of crowdsourcing
to attract collaboration of translators for working on translation projects or merely translating short phrases.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
to attract collaboration of translators for working on translation projects or merely translating short phrases.
Platforms
Some collaborative translation platforms include:- CucumisCucumis (website)Cucumis is a website where translators share their linguistic knowledge and exchange services online. One unusual feature of Cucumis is that all translations are peer reviewed and may be edited by other Cucumis translators...
, a website where translators share their knowledge of linguistics and peer reviewPeer reviewPeer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
each other's work on a "translation points" basis. - Get Localization, a collaborative translation platform for software
- Traduwiki, translating "interesting" documents by sectioning them into small pieces.
- BabelsBabelsBabels is an international network of volunteer interpreters and translators that was born out of the European Social Forum process and whose main objective is to cover the interpreting needs of the various Social Forums...
- dotSUB, a web-based platform focusing on collaborative captioning and translation of online video, used, among others in the TEDTED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
Open Translation Project. - nativetext
- Speakeasy
- Worldwide Lexicon Project