[Foundation-l] Free translation memory

[David Gerard]

On 1 August 2010 04:08, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Jimmy O'Regan <joregan at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Open-Tran: http://open-tran.eu/
>> Is something like translatewiki.
>> Software here: http://code.google.com/p/open-tran/
>> They also provide their databases for download.
>> For running your own server:
>> TinyTM: http://tinytm.sourceforge.net/
>> Translate Toolkit includes an XML-RPC based translation memory server.

> The idea here is interesting as Google is using Wikipedia articles to
> improve its translation tools, which remain proprietary. If Wikimedia
> ran its own translation toolkit, would that change the paradigm a bit?


Probably. Same reason cloning reCaptcha would be a good idea.


> Would that somehow compel Google to open up its translation data to
> us, as an exchange for using our content for its proprietary tools?


No.


- d.