[Foundation-l] Push translation

[David Gerard]

On 17 August 2010 03:22, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Michael Galvez <michaelcg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:56 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> 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.

> If GTTK goes away next year, will the data gathered from these
> translations go away also?
> I had thought the translation memory from Wikipedia translations was
> freely available for reuse (at least in principle).  However, this
> isn't yet the case.  As I understand it, Wikipedia translations are
> bundled together with all other public submissions to Google's global
> public translation memory, which produces the default translations you
> see online.  This TM is not currently available for query, export or
> download.


Yes, that's the question I was asking.

What would it take for the Wikipedia-gathered data to be freely
reusable outside Google and its tools?


- d.