Well this is on one hand to inform you about what we are going to do/try to do and on the other to tell people: if you want to do the same, just do it.

Jeff has this wordlist he uses for the machine translation of the Cherokee wikipedia. Well, since I want to try to do the same for Neapolitan he told me to download it and substitute the Cherokee words with Neapolitan words. Said and done :-) I downloaded the list. Talking with GerardM about uploading it I sent him the list and he put it on WiktionaryZ (thank you!):

http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_1 http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_2 http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_3 http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_4

Jeff: could you please confirm that we may use the list in this way under GFDL and CC-BY?

Well, what will happen now: I will start to create the needed entries in English and add the Neapolitan translations to it. Probably also Italian and as soon as we have Cherokee online I'll copy and paste these words there as well (always if I get the OK for it).

Once that is done we can go on with teaching the translation engine the grammar rules :-)

Now people will say and if it does not work ... well something tells me it will work ... and besides creating a basis for Machine Translation in this way also a dictionary is created. So one effort with double result.

Therefore I invite all that are interested in doing similar things to follow us in our adventure ... well yes, that's how I consider it: a huge adventure in the world of languages. Probably some that will start after me to work on this list will be faster ... it would be great to see that - there is always that time problem (at least for me).

Well this is the first time when we will see one of the WiktionaryZ features in action: reusability for other projects - in this case for our wikipedias.

Thank you Jeff for taking the time to work on our languages.

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