Would you use/participate in a translation site like this?
friism: I actually submitted this exact idea to YC last year. Here are some competitors:
http://translationcreation.com/ (site down at time of writing)
http://www.proz.com/The YC-segment could probably be convinced to use something like this (I'd use it if the editing/checking worked well). I know of several tech-startups that use mturk in a way similar to what you describe.A big hurdle for wider uptake would be confidentiality of texts to be translated.