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Comment comment by nickfranklin on 28 March 2006

they should get the wikipedia people to moderate...

this is somewhat reminiscent of a story i read a long time ago--one of those science fiction day-after-tomorrow kind of deals--where the UN put webcams all over an Iranian nuclear reactor, or something to that effect, and volunteers all over the world peeked in on it during their lunch breaks to make sure that nobody was breaking the seals.

here's a question: out of a sample of people

1. fluent in both arabic and english

2. with internet connections

3. with enough interest in the topic at hand to participate

are there more:

1. people with an interest in supporting the bush administration

2. people with an interest in giving it a black eye

3. people out for the truth, and nothing more?

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RE: Resources by Brandon :: NR9

Admittedly, I also thought of Wikipedia when I read this story. It still amazes me how many people participate in that site completely voluntarily. Perhaps the government could use the wiki infrastructure to allow everyone to collaborate on an "unofficial translations" of each document. The "Iraq Document Wiki" ...

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RE: Resources by PowerPointSamurai :: NR7

are there more:

1. people with an interest in supporting the bush administration

2. people with an interest in giving it a black eye

3. people out for the truth, and nothing more?

It really doesn't matter. If someone makes some kind of claim as to what something says, there are official intel translators, academics, etc. to confirm or deny. I guess if the documents are damning enough, how many people with what level of credibility are willing to put their reputation on the line swearing to something when anyone who reads Arabic can decifer the truth? Heck, you or I could find some books on Arabic, and though it would be pretty much impossible for us to learn Arabic ourselves, we could figure out a word or phrase here or there well enough to figure out if that person is full of crap or if the document generally says what they say if we wanted to badly enough.

Moreover, there may be Arabic speakers out there that hate Bush, but there are also a LOT out there, probably more, that hate Saddam Hussein.

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