--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
That was perfect Mav :-)
Thanks - but all the credit should go to Google translator (which does a great job). Perhaps including a link to Google translator or BableFish on non-English posts will solve this problem. Then people can feel more comfortable posting in their native language and others will still be able to understand them.
Or could put directly a google translation in the post ?
By the way, was not there an old project aiming at translation at least 2 years ago ?
Yep
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Machine_Translation_Project
Although the wiki is not available right now...
Machine translation has come a long way since that idea was first put forward for Wikipedia. We may want to look at the idea again. A special:translate function might be a nice tool to have - that way humans would control the process on an article by article basis (correcting any errors that result).
If done correctly, the result should be no worse than copyedited and error-checked EB 1911-derived articles (many of which are pretty good).
-- mav
Hmmm, you know what would be great ?
Imagine...
You go to a polish article (for a change), one not covered by your pedia. You click on a little link "EditTranslate". Enter a new title for your new (own language) article. A window open in your own wikipedia, with the new title, containing automatically the machine-translated text. Plus, you have a handy tool bar, where you may enter some of the words in original or new language and where you get information from Wiktionary...translations if possible, and definitions of this word. Upon time, I am sure the capacity of wiktionary to define and translate words will be quite good, and might be a useful add-on to google translation (which are not always satisfying).
I am not sure I am clear here, but imho, there should be at any time, on wikipedia, a sort of search box where we could quickly enter a word of any wikipedia article, a word we do not understand well, and get immediately definition and translation in other languages.
Anyway...
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