Firstly I'm a team of the team for the site - so, a bit of self-promotion here might be...
Translia (http://www.translia.com) is the first online translation website that implements crowd sourcing business module by a real meaning. Typically crowd sourcing means a mass of people, each working on a smaller part of the job, together deliver a larger job and achieve better quality, quick turnaround and lower cost.
The major challenges in designing a crowd translation sites include
- Automating the translation business and production process that traditionally involves a lot of human attendance.
- Enabling translators, who usually work alone, to collaborate with each other.
To address these issues we adopted Drupal and built the site in the two directions:
Translation process automation that involves the following modules,
- Workflow, Workflow field
- Messaging and notifications
- Ubercar
- Userpoints
We developed a couple of modules for meeting the unique requirements set by the project. For example, measuring the contribution of each member to a job.
Community and social network features that are based the core or contributed modules such as
- Forum
- Profiles
- Facebook-style status
- Invite