
Observations and experiences from volunteers involved with GTP are used to capture the qualitative findings. Descriptive statistics are used to depict the impact. The approach consists of acquiring the metrics about wikipedia contributions and page requests, analysing them for the period of four years in which Google Translation Project occurs during the middle two years. What are the lessons from this project?.How good is the Google Translate quality?.Why is it difficult to clean up GTP pages.How does the popularity compare to volunteer developed featured articles?.What is the popularity of the GTP pages as observable from page requests on Wikipedia?.How much did the key paramters like article count, number of wikipedians, database size increase due to GTP?.What is the scope and extent of Google Translation Project's contributions?.The questions that are addressed in this article are the following.
Google transliteration telugu manual#
8 Manual assessment of automated translation of Telugu-> English.7 Present status of contributed articles.3 Initial criticism from Tamil Wikipedia.Volunteer developed featured article pages had 3.5 times the page requests of translated pages. More than 99% of translated articles remain unimproved. The findings show that the project which resulted in increase in article count by 4.6% and data base size by 200% impacted page requests below 5%. In this review, the metrics on contributions and page requests from Wikipedia are used to analyse the impact of the project on Telugu Wikipedia. Google finally announced that the project was completed in July 2011. Google tried to address the shortcomings by engaging with Tamil Wikipedian community, but could not make much progress.

A critical review of the project by Tamil Wikipedians was also shared in the same meeting. The project was presented in Wikimania 2010 by Google.
Google transliteration telugu software#
"An improved and shortened version is published at en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost//Special report on " "Īs part of the initiative to extend Google Translate software for languages of India, Google launched the Google Translation Project(GTP) to translate popular English Wikipedia articles into various Indian languages using paid translators.
