this isn't about translation of content of current wikimedia projects, but more about creating a generic tool that anyone could use to translate anything, so not really what [[Content translation]] describes
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > This is currently being developed: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation > > It will provide all the tools needed to translate wiki articles, including > dictionary lookup. The back-end service interfaces will be fairly generic & > will use open source tools like dictd and apertium, so might be useful for > non-wiki projects. Yes, this statistics based system would be more like what I meant, but keep in mind that if it was open, so that anyone could contribute on that database, just like wikipedia is, it would probably collect enormous amount of data pretty quickly, just as wikipedia did. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: > A statistics-based system (such > as Google Translate) requires enormous amounts of > data to become useful. > > It's not something that you can start as a subproject > within Wiktionary, not even as a separate WMF project. > It's a very large task. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
