CSOFT?s TermWiki among Top-10 Wikis Worldwide
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TermWiki, the cloud-based, collaborative
terminology management tool, is now one of the top-10 Wikis worldwide, as listed
in Wikipedia?s
List of
Wikis. Since its release in May this year, the platform has grown to over
240,000 listed articles, putting it in the top 10, a list which includes
Wikipedia in multiple languages. The site continues to expand at a rate of
several thousand pages a day, a number which is increasing exponentially.
The ambitious project, launched by CSOFT International Ltd., allows
industry insiders, tech writers, and translators to work together to create,
translate and share terms and glossaries relevant to their industries and
spheres of work. As a Wiki-based system, TermWiki emphasizes the controlled,
collaborative model, with discussion platforms, history functions and complete
traceability. This controlled approach, combined with the site?s industry and
domain specific listings, have made TermWiki a reliable reference point for
ISO-compliant, multilingual industrial terms. In turn, the platform?s
multiple-format export functions enable technical writers and translators to use
the terms in authoring and translation memory software, to drive up accuracy and
consistency in both source and translated documents.
TermWiki?s success
has been accelerated by its popular, regular term and translation competitions,
open to the public. One translator recently won a 64GB iPad for his efforts in
translating a number of terms into Japanese. Immediately following this
competition, TermWiki began a new competition offering a $50 Amazon gift voucher
to the individual who submits the most entries to the ?Term in the News?, by
October 15. Similar competitions will be run on a regular basis in the
future.
TermWiki also provides translators with free professional
development opportunities. The site contains multiple social networking
functions, as well as translation review polls; highly rated translators have
high exposure to industry professionals working in their specific sector.
TermWiki also operates a ?give one take three? model, meaning that for every
term added or uploaded to the platform, translators can export three. This
enables translators to quickly and painlessly quadruple their personal
glossaries, to help them raise their translation efficiency and consistency.
Ms. Shunee Yee, President and CEO of CSOFT, when asked about the driving
force that lead to the release of the TermWiki terminology management system,
said ?As a tool, the point of technology is to truly save costs, not to increase
upfront investment; it should save time, not demand additional training and
require frequent maintenance. Technology should be hassle-free and, as a rule,
genuinely user-friendly?.
To learn more about TermWiki, visit:
http://www.termwiki.com .
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