Hoi, What does it take for the WMF to provide continued support for important tools like Apertium ? If there is one movement that will benefit from development of Apertium it is ours.. Thanks, GerardM
On 1 May 2015 at 15:57, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
Amir,
First of all a big thank you as a speaker of Catalan and fervent advocate of minoritary languages.
OTOH, I would like to bring awareness to the topic of translation engine. Apertium is no longer supported as a GsoC project, I guess the project will keep alive but it worries me that downstream we reap the benefits without considering that the upstream projects might need support too.
I wish that the conversation thread that was started long ago to support upstream projects also includes now open sourced translation tools because as your number show, they seem very relevant.
Best regards, Micru
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
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Amir, this is awesome. Glad to see it's taking off.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:24 AM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
- In all the Wikipedias in which ContentTranslation is deployed, it is
currently defined as a Beta feature, which means that it is only
available
to logged-in users who opted into it in the preferences.
Regarding Beta feature status: what would it take to enable this as a default? You mentioned this in plans for the coming months.
That deletion rate (60 out of 2000 = 3%?) looks actually a lot better
than
"pretty OK". According to historical stats, it's basically equivalent to deletion rates for article creators with more than a month of experience.[1]
It seems like the only risk in taking this out of beta status as moving
to
a default is UI clutter for monolingual users who can't ever make use of the feature? Maybe it's unobtrusive enough that you don't need to do
this,
but perhaps you could enable as a default for only those users who have substantively edited more than one language edition of Wikipedia? Either that, or we could consider adding a "languages I edit in" section to the Internationalisation section of user preferences?
I'm sure you've thought about this before, but I'd love to hear more
about
the rollout plan.
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