[Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs
Wed Jun 23 17:12:54 UTC 2010


Дана Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:13:39 Magnus Manske написа:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs> wrote:
> > On 06/22/2010 08:07 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> >> Here's a thought: Enter "hobu" into translate.google.com, leave
> >> "source language" on automatic and target on "English", and it will
> >> happily translate it into "horse". Could we offer a "translation" link
> >> in search? As in, "translate my query into English and try again"? I'm
> >> sure we can come to an arrangement with Google (or someone else).
> >
> > I already made something similar: http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php
>
> Nice! Now it needs language auto-detect, and Estonian for the example
> (unless I didn't see it), and, of course, integration into Commons...

All done, and I leave the integration to someone who knows how to navigate the 
community's labyrinths.



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