Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:21:15 +0530 From: Runa Bhattacharjee rbhattacharjee@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex? Message-ID: < CAE7QTsQ2L0nTmOFDjUwBPmtnhj+R8etM6wqa+P+Ft2+5W0oHkA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Marcin Cieslak saper@saper.info wrote:
(How) are we going to meet this requirement?
Hello, Specifics about this can be seen at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Machine_Translation/Yande... Thanks Runa -- Language Engineering Manager Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
For those of you interested in this, you can take a look at the blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/11/content-translation-30000-wikipedia-articles/ announcing our use of Yandex (It's in the "Improvements to machine translation" section). The post also provides links to various pages with more details about this project, including the write-up of why we are using Yandex: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Documentation/FAQ#Yandex_.... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Documentation/FAQ#Yandex_is_not_based_on_open_source_software._Why_are_we_using_it.3F
Among other things, our agreement allows us to maintain the CC license of all translated content and we are not required to provide attribution to Yandex like their TOU states. Yandex is also not charging us for the service.
Thanks,
Zhou
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