Crowd-Sourced Translation Goes Awry For Facebook | The Language Blog | Bloglingua.com.
Posted by Caroline Mikolajczyk in Machine Translation, Translation Errors on 08 5th, 2010 |
Facebook’s crowd-sourced translation app has helped the company translate Facebook into over 100 different languages quickly and cheaply. However, the company (and many of its users) just discovered one of the downsides of crowd-sourcing- vulnerability to online pranksters.