[Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

Fajro faigos at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 14:04:42 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> about the toolkit, but I got the impression you're referring to Google
> Translate, which I agree is always unsuitable to produce usable
> articles.
>

Machine translation is always unsuitable to produce usable articles, but can
help to start new ones in smaller wikipedias.

If we want to use machine translation we should try with a free project like
Apertium:

http://www.apertium.org/
http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page
irc://irc.freenode.net/apertium

-- 
Fajro


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