User:Theornamentalist/Daydreams5

As opposed to transcribing the text appearing on a scan verbatim, the work using the scan is meant to tie the translation to a particular publication. It allows for duplication of formatting, referencing and collaboration between translators, who must be fluent in both the language translating from and the one translating into. Because it does not function like the traditional proofreading system, one which is a direct digitization of the text appearing in print, and because there are not always equivalent words or phrases between languages, it is at best an approximation where words or sentences split up by pages may require viewing off of a given page to check for proper translation. Therefore, things such as hyphenated words between pages, typos and errors can be forgone. In addition, whereas a traditional transcription is validated upon at least two editors reviewing the transcription to match the original, the translated page is validated upon at least two editors agreeing the that translation is suitable, but as is the nature of translating and working in a wiki environment, a translation may never be "done" in theory. Therefore, as opposed to a traditional transcription validation being in a state of being presumably "validated" in which it may not be edited again, a translated work considered "validated" may still be edited heavily if an editor feels a better translation exists. As with anything at Wikisource, a civil discussion on the Talk page is appropriate for discrepencies to mimimize potential disagreements in translating, which may arise between editors.