[Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

A few links:
* 2010 discussion: 
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Free_Translation_Memory as 
one of the 
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free 
(follow links, including)
* http://www.apertium.org : was used by translatewiki.net but isn't any 
longer https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Technology
* Translate also has a translation memory (of course current use case is 
more limited)
** Example exposed to the world 
<http://translatewiki.net/w/api.php?action=ttmserver&sourcelanguage=en&targetlanguage=fi&text=january&format=jsonfm>
** Docs 
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Translation_memories#TTMServer_API>
** All Wikimedia projects share one 
<http://laxstrom.name/blag/2012/09/07/translation-memory-all-wikimedia-wikis/>
** We could join forces if more FLOSS projects used Translate 
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translate_Roll>

Nemo