Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Tisza Gergo 
Samuel Klein meta...@... writes:

 I'd like to see such translation tools used to enhance the tags used
 to identify an image, so that all internet searches can find images by
 those tags.

I think this stuff should be left for Google. A clever search engine should be
able to figure out that if you are looking for Pferd images, horse images
will also be of interest; and Google is getting clever quickly in this regard.
(For example, recently Google web search has been offering to translate the
search phrase to English, and translate the results back to you.)

OTOH, it would be a nice feature to show translated page and category names when
someone looks at the page with the interface language set to non-English.


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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Tisza Gergo 
Magnus Manske magnusman...@... 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.


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