Translators Wanted At LinkedIn. The Pay? $0 An Hour

NY TIMES -- June 28 -- LinkedIn hopes to be translated into more than its current four languages — English, Spanish, French and German. But when LinkedIn asked thousands of its translator members to complete a survey this month that asked whether they would consider volunteering to translate the site into other languages, many said “nyet.” Nico Posner, the LinkedIn product manager who circulated the survey, wrote that the survey was not asking translators to volunteer per se. He said he was trying to find out whether they would consider “crowd sourcing,” borrowing the term applied to companies like Wikipedia that rely on volunteers’ collective wisdom. FULL ARTICLE @ NY TIMES

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