Ask YC: cheap/crowdsourced translations?

6 points·davidw··9 comments

I need to translate a few (10's) of strings for a site I have. It's not important that the quality be stellar; it's all pretty standard stuff, and I don't really want to farm it out as a one-off job to a translation agency or something like that.

Any recommendations?

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I was once hired to fix the arabic translation done by someone on TranslatorBase.com

check 'em out :-)

I'm wondering if there's anything more... "web two-ish" that people have used. I could probably just hassle a friend or something to do the translation; it's so small. But I'm curious. That looks like a decent site if you have a larger document.

What languages? I would do Arabic for you pro-bono, and it's up to you to donate something to any one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Palestinian_charities

:-)

German in this case, but like I said, I'm pretty sure I can dig up someone locally that does German, so mostly I'm curious about services that do this kind of stuff.

Few tens of strings? I'll give it a try. Just pass over the first, let's say, twenty strings in a follow-up comment. German native speaker here.

maybe www.cucumis.org

I'm a native speaker/writer of both Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Let me know if I can help!

Have you tried Mechanical Turk?

this is pretty much exactly what you're looking for:

http://mygengo.com/

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