I am happy to know that we are doing at least "something" on this :) hopefully a first step to some more complex solution? Because from the proposal you linked I can't see how would I easily translate "apple" to different language. I know I can perform a number of lookups and queries to accomplish that, but IMHO it should be easier.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was looking for a free (possibly open source) provider of automatic >> translations for my open source application I am working on and quite >> had troubles finding some. Then I realized we have a project called >> "wiktionary" which could possibly (I was assuming it's open >> dictionary) help me here, but I was quite disappointed as I couldn't >> find any simple way to perform simple queries like: >> >> translate "banana" from english to czech >> >> I think that we could (maybe should in spirit of openness and >> wikiness) have some wiki-based web application that would serve this >> purpose - allow people query / translate simple words, but maybe even >> whole phrases. If anyone could edit this, maybe it would grow up into >> huge dictionary of all possible or frequent phrases that could be >> easily translated to any language on world. >> >> Do we already have anything like this? > > It doesn't exist yet but it is on the longer-term (aka 2015 earliest) > plan for the Wikidata team. The current proposal is at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
