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Jul 26 2023

Average Lengths of MediaWiki Translations

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I was wondering: In which languages, user interface translations tend to be longer, and in which ones they are shorter? The intuitive answers to these questions are that Chinese and Japanese are very short, English tends to be shorter than the average, Hebrew is shorter than English, and the...

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Oct 23 2020

Amir Aharoni’s Quasi-Pro Tips for Translating the Software That Powers Wikipedia, 2020 Edition

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This is a new version of a post that was originally published in 2015. Much of it is the same, but there are several updates that justified publishing a new version. Introduction As you probably already know, Wikipedia is a website. A website has two components: the content and the user...

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