[FM Discuss] Will booki.cc be cleared out?

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 02:21, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if the main booki.cc would be cleared out soon.  The
> reason I ask is that I have an idea for a Booki project that I'd like
> to try out.  After helping (to some extent) the people who are
> translating "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" into Spanish, I got an
> idea for another translation project that I'm not qualified to do.
> For MYOSA I used Babel Fish to translate individual chapters into bad
> Spanish, then got native speakers to fix it up as good Spanish.  It
> occurs to me that I might do something similar going the other
> direction.

FYI
This process of machine translation followed by a translator fixing is
called "post-editing"


> I recently ran across a movie based on the novel _Le Château des
> Carpathes_ by Jules Verne, which is in the public domain in French but
> has no public domain English translation.  Project Gutenberg has it in
> French, and Google Translate is able to render it in bad English.  I'd
> like to put this into Booki and attempt to fix up the English.  I have
> *some* knowledge of French, and my English is tolerable.  I ought to
> be able to make a good start on it and maybe get some French speakers
> to help out.  The result would get released under a very liberal CC
> license and donated to the Internet Archive, and possibly PG as well.

awesome idea.

> I would not want to do this only to have it cleared out of Booki.cc.
> However, there's a lot of stuff in Booki.cc that probably *should* be
> cleared out.

Could we set up a staging system?

Keep current booki for testing etc, and set up another, non final
version so that ppl that are looking toward the new system can get
started?

cheers
L.