Hoi, Google Wave is not a finished product at this moment.. The intention is to make it available by the end of September. While Wave is developed it is not stable and this is understood by the people who develop in it. When one robot, in this the translation robot, you cannot infer anything from it. When Wave is demoed you cannot even expect that all the robots that are being developed can be demoed.
I am sure that they did not and could not demo the "MediaWiki Wave" functionality.. for that you have to be at Wikimania Buenos Aires 2009. Thanks, GerardM
2009/8/23 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net
On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:50, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancicmillosh@gmail.com wrote:
There won't be new lingua franca. ~30 years is now very small amount of time for changing behavior of the global society, while it is very large amount of time for machine translators. (Translation engines between similar languages are very very good now.)
The Google Wave demo shows real time translation as things are typed. I'm sure you'll inevitably end up with some of the very strange sentence constructions you get whenever you do an online translation but it's still quite a remarkable feat.
I was at a demonstration of Google Wave yesterday, and someone asked for a demo of the live translation robot. They weren't able to demo it; apparently it's been decommissioned by Google.
Mike
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