[Foundation-l] New projects opened

[Gerard Meijssen]

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 at mikepeel.net>

>
> On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:50, Bod Notbod wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancic<millosh at 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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