[Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

[Magnus Manske]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tisza Gergo <gtisza at gmail.com> wrote:
> Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at ...> writes:
>
>> Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query
>> run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language
>> editions of Wikipedia for articles from the individual words (in this
>> case, "Pferd" and "Schach"), count how many exist, pick the language
>> with the most hits (in this case, German), and put a link to link to
>> Nikola's tool under the search box. The link pre-fills the source
>> language and query in the tool, which automatically opens the
>> appropriate search page.
>
> Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if one
> exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel:
>
> http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Pferd%20Schach
> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect
>
> It might support less languages then we have wikipedias for, but I'm pretty sure
> it would give better results for the major ones.

Well, that's what I suggested a few mails ago in this very thread.
However, people didn't seem to want it.