Thread:Sactage-fduser/@comment-5175866-20130706194746/@comment-34029627-20130706224245

If you want something automated, this kind of tool already exists:. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel - building a reliable natural language processor to parse and accurately translate articles (which can be assumed to have several errors in grammatical syntax or spelling) would take an immense amount of resources and time. Google has already done this, and while it is far from perfection, it is much better than anything I could hope to do in the near future.

If you want a system where there is a human translator, this removes the problem of having to deal with NLP; however, this introduces its own issue: who is going to spend their free time translating articles? In addition, what happens when a page is changed after being translated? Does the translator have to manually seek out these changes, and then implement them in the translated page? What about common idioms in one language that don't have a translation in the other?