On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Galvez <michaelcg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late.
I'm one of the members
of
Google's translation team, and I wanted to
make myself available for
feedback/questions.
Thanks for stopping by. A few questions: 1) Does GTTK have a specific
API for Mediawiki markup ("wikitext") itself? 2) Can it be opened up
for viewing/editing? 3) Does it include the original-language wikitext
as <!-- hidden--> in the output wikitext?
Translator Toolkit processes generic Media Wiki text, although this is not
an officially supported feature and is largely untested. If you upload a
UTF-8 file with extension ".mediawiki", Translator Toolkit will try to
render the file in the same way that it renders Wikipedia files.
Re: original-language wikitext, I'm not familiar with that markup. Can you
clarify?
1. the local Wikipedia community should give
Google final OK on what
articles should or should not be translated
2. the local Wikipedia community add articles to Google's list
3. the local Wikipedia community can suggest titles for the articles
4. Google's translators will post the articles with their user names, and
they will monitor community feedback on their user pages until the
translation meets the community's standards
0) The main issue here is 'concepts of community,' interaction between
communities, and the creation of "community" between different
language communities. The more open Google is with us about what it
wants and what it proposes to do, the more we can be on board with
helping organize community support.
Understood. I'm working with PR to release the deck that I presented at
Wikimania. Will send that along as soon as it's available.
-SC
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