S Page wrote:
> If this approach worked, you could use such a machine translator as a
> translation assistant to add facts to SMW pages in other languages. I
> would use it simply to display what other languages currently think are
> the facts about a topic, e.g. Pope John Paul II in Polish or ski racers
> in Austrian.
I'm not sure how exactly you intend to use it, I see two possibilities:
1. "push": On the German wiki, you click "Translate the facts to French"
2. "pull": On the French wiki, you click "Translate the facts from German"
(or from all the other wikis at once)
I think the "pull" version is more practical to an editor, but should
not be implemented in SMW. I'm not a MediaWiki hacker, so take
the following remarks with a grain of salt. AFAIK, the language
versions of Wikipedia are completely decoupled, they do not access
one another's databases, nor do they perform any queries outside.
I believe the MediaWiki authors prefer to retain such model, and
so should SMW. Therefore, *the engine* should not interact with
any wiki other than the one it is serving. Any synchronization
efforts should be performed by some external tools.
> Some people dream of having a corpus of facts expressed in a canonical
> language, that then get translated into each language on the fly. I
> think there was a meta-wiki commons project to do something like this
> for page translations and category names; obviously you get disagreement
> as to canonical language, what facts if any are culturally neutral, etc.
In the beginning I imagined that the synchronization tool should take
a consensus ontology and mapping to individual wikis' ontologies as
input, but now I am leaning towards a more realistic assumption that
each wiki maintains its own interwiki links for ontology in the same
manner as for articles. I don't want to go into details here, since
this is not the right list for discussing external tools that could
be built on top of SMW :)
Regards,
Lukasz
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