On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Galvez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members > of > > Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for > > feedback/questions. > > Thanks for stopping by. A few questions: 1) Does GTTK have a specific > API for Mediawiki markup ("wikitext") itself? 2) Can it be opened up > for viewing/editing? 3) Does it include the original-language wikitext > as <!-- hidden--> in the output wikitext? >
Translator Toolkit processes generic Media Wiki text, although this is not an officially supported feature and is largely untested. If you upload a UTF-8 file with extension ".mediawiki", Translator Toolkit will try to render the file in the same way that it renders Wikipedia files. Re: original-language wikitext, I'm not familiar with that markup. Can you clarify? > > > 1. the local Wikipedia community should give Google final OK on what > > articles should or should not be translated > > 2. the local Wikipedia community add articles to Google's list > > 3. the local Wikipedia community can suggest titles for the articles > > 4. Google's translators will post the articles with their user names, and > > they will monitor community feedback on their user pages until the > > translation meets the community's standards > > 0) The main issue here is 'concepts of community,' interaction between > communities, and the creation of "community" between different > language communities. The more open Google is with us about what it > wants and what it proposes to do, the more we can be on board with > helping organize community support. > Understood. I'm working with PR to release the deck that I presented at Wikimania. Will send that along as soon as it's available. > -SC > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
