On 26 March 2013 13:53, Harry Burt <harryab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO the idea of translation "hints" embedded into Wikipedia articles is a
> better one. I'm not sure it's going to be possible to construct a pitch for
> as complex a project as that within a short amount of time however; it may
> even require a new web standard.

It could possibly be done using existing standards for the Semantic
Web (as little used as they are!). Making text machine-translatable is
basically the same job as making it machine-readable - translation
errors happen because the computer doesn't know what the words
actually mean and it is meaning you need to translate, not words.

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