Application internationalization/translation experience using crowd-sourcing? Mechanical Turk?

Question

I have developed a web application using internationalization best practices such as putting all my displayable strings in property files, etc, etc.

I would like to have the strings in the property files translated into 5 different languages.

Does anyone have any experience using Mechanical Turk or another crowd sourcing service for language translation?

The reason I don't want to just hire a translation company or service is because I want to eventually have ongoing content fed into the translation service via an API.

My Google results for more information on this topic were surprisingly dismal. Any links or pointers are appreciated.

Answer 1

If your software is open source you can use Launchpad for translating.