's fada bhon a bha mise a' toirt sùil air a' bhlog aig Rhys coir 'Smiling under Buses -Speaking a dead language since 1977' ach thachair mi air pios air leth inntinneach
'Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Welsh version of Facebook officialy completed.
I had a message the other day informing me that the Welsh tr*nsl*t**n of Facebook is now complete (see screen shot). I'm not a massive Facebook fan, but I wanted to be 'down with the kids', so had to have an account. The first group I joined on Facebook was 'Facebook Cymraeg? Welsh Language Facebook?'. There's around 3,000+ members in that group, and when I heard that Welsh was one of the languages to be opened for tr*nsl*t**n, I though "I bet the fuckers think nothing of joining the group, but how may will actually help with the Welsh tr*nsl*t**n?".
Well 914 in fact, which totally surpised me.
The proses is quite drawn out. There's nearly 20,000 threads/phrase to tr*nsl*t* for starters - some can be a word or two long, while some could be one or two sentances long. Once a certain amount of strings had suggestions for them, there was a next stage where each phrase had to be voted up or down.
Even if Facebook is a pile of shit really, it has certianly contibuted to the future of on-line collaboration of websites and software (I hope!). This will have been the first time that the vast majority have taken part in such a task, and hopefully they will have had a taste for it and will be prepared to do the same in the future things like OpenOffice or Firefox or WordPress or....... are updated.
I never thougt I'd say this, but diolch Facebook'
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