Just to extend the idea little bit so that it's easier to answer "do we have this?" (I am pretty sure we don't): This service should be able to do things like this: TRANSLATE hello there, how are you FROM english TO chinese (preudo-query language is just for this example so that it's clear what I want it to do) and it /should/ 1. look up whole sentence "hello there, how are you" in database, if there is no translation for whole this sentence, it should: 2. split the sentence (by comma) and look only for "hello there" and "how are you", if there is no translation for these it should: 3. split it by words and return "mechanic" translation for every word (which is least wanted but better than nothing) if people had possibility to insert & translate words, phrases, sentences, I think this would be awesome application as lot of people would probably insert incredible amount of data and translations. I don't really know if this is something what wikimedia movement should provide or support, but anyway, it would be nice to have open source project :) I know it would be kind of reinventing of google translate, but that, no matter how nice it is, isn't free for developers (api's are paid) and isn't very open (source code is closed and user ability to edit database is nowhere near to what people can do on real wikis, like wikipedia) On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 05/22/2014 08:41 AM, Petr Bena 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. You can also use existing commercial APIs of course. Gabriel