[Foundation-l] Push translation

[Michael Galvez]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:56 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 August 2010 18:47, Michael Galvez <michaelcg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 3. We acquire dictionaries on limited licenses from other parties.  In
> > general, while we can surface this content on our own sites (e.g., Google
> > Translate, Google Dictionary, Google Translator Toolkit), we don't have
> > permission to donate that data to other sites.
>
>
> And the data that GTTK gathers from its use in Wikipedia translations?
> What would need to happen for that to start coming back, in a usable
> form?
>

The translated segments are available to all translators in Translator
Toolkit.  When other volunteers use Translator Toolkit to translate other
Wikipedia articles, the segments will be available to them.


>
>
> > Following interwiki links and suggesting parent categories is a bit of
> work
> > and unlikely to be implemented soon.  We can disable category translation
> if
> > that helps - can you confirm if that's OK?
>
>
> As I vaguely recall from someone posting study results on the
> question, not all interwiki links are good, but ones that are a 1:1
> match generally seem to be.
>
> (I frequently use Wikipedia interwiki links as a guide to translating
> single words casually.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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