Actually, Google added... Pirate and Montenegrin. Mark
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Marcus Buck<m...@marcusbuck.org> wrote: > Gerard Meijssen hett schreven: >> Hoi, >> The quality of the translations will vary. There are many reasons for it and >> one of the things that will make a difference is the number of people using >> the translate tool as a rough first pass. Once this is done, using the >> translation functionality will help Google to improve the quality of the >> code. >> >> This has been said before, there is no news here. What is relevant however >> is that in order to support the languages that have not been supported so >> far, there is a need for people actually using this tool to build the >> translation corpus that gets you this first pass functionality. >> >> Translation is not something where a silver bullet will provide an "instant >> on - high quality" experience and it is the languages that are currently not >> supported that have the highest need for tools like this. > This is interesting. I did not know it's possible to train new > languages. Is there any available information on the requirements? What > requirements need to be met, to make Google support them (so they can be > selected in the drop-down at the translator toolkit)? _How much_ text do > they need as a basis to finally enable the translation function? > > (My personal experience with the collaboratetiveness of Google is a bad > one. Although Google is a multi-billion dollar company and [in a fair > world] should actually _pay_ people for things like translating their > interface in as much languages as possible [as Google with its 80% > search engine market share is one of the most important internet access > vectors and not having a search engine in your language is a big > accessibility barrier] they rather choose to go the cheap way and let > volunteers translate it. That not enough, they have the chutzpa to > _reject_ adding any further languages [no additions since at least 2007, > although they still support Elmer Fudd, bork bork bork, Klingon and > pirate speak...]. At the moment Google supports the languages of > roundabout 85 to 90% of the world's population and it seems, they don't > care about the rest.) > > Marcus Buck > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l