this isn't about translation of content of current wikimedia projects,
but more about creating a generic tool that anyone could use to
translate anything, so not really what [[Content translation]]
describes
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This is currently being developed:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
It will provide all the tools needed to translate wiki articles, including
dictionary lookup. The back-end service interfaces will be fairly generic &
will use open source tools like dictd and apertium, so might be useful for
non-wiki projects.
Yes, this statistics based system would be more like what I meant, but
keep in mind that if it was open, so that anyone could contribute on
that database, just like wikipedia is, it would probably collect
enormous amount of data pretty quickly, just as wikipedia did.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
A statistics-based system (such
as Google Translate) requires enormous amounts of
data to become useful.
It's not something that you can start as a subproject
within Wiktionary, not even as a separate WMF project.
It's a very large task.