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

[Nikola Smolenski]

On 24/04/13 12:35, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
> In summary, I see four calls for action right now (and for all of them this
> means to first actually think more and write down a project plan and gather
> input on that), that could and should be tackled in parallel if possible:
> I ) develop  a structured Wiktionary
> II ) develop a feature that blends into Wikipedia's search if an article
> about a topic does not exist yet, but we  have data on Wikidata about that
> topic
> III ) develop a multilingual search, tagging, and structuring environment
> for Commons
> IV ) develop structured Wiki content using natural language as a surface
> syntax, with extensible parsers and serializers
>
> None of these goals would require tens of millions or decades of research
> and development. I think we could have an actionable plan developed within
> a month or two for all four goals, and my gut feeling is we could reach
> them all by 2015 or 16, depending when we actually start with implementing
> them.

I fully support this, though! This is fully within Wikimedia's current 
infrastructure, and generally was planned to be done anyway.