HI Irene, Wikibabel, Gerd, and Wikidatans, How does Wikidata's new lexicographical project work with regard to Swahili (since it is a Wikipedia / Wikidata language) and Google Translate / GNMT re your "Our approach leverages Google Translate <https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/> to make English Wikipedia articles accessible to underserved communities" (re: https://medium.com/@oirzak/wikibabel-equalizing-information-access-on-a-budget-4038f750e90e )?
Will a Wikibabel team you help create add Swahili lexemes to the lexicographical project - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data - and then Google GNMT - which is end-to-end translation software ... https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jwgtcgkgG2o/WDSBrwu9jeI/AAAAAAAABbM/2Eobq-N9_nYeAdeH-sB_NZGbhyoSWgReACLcB/s1600/image01.gif (https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html) - use this new Swahili lexicographical data by processing this through its algorithms? (WUaS seeks to facilitate machine translation in all 7097 living languages, and by growing out of Google GNMT; WUaS donated itself for co-development to Wikidata in 2015). Cheers, Scott On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] > wrote: > Hoi, > I am giving a lot of attention to content that deals with Africa. At that > I also target the Swahili wikipedia [1] (I have not filled in all the red > links yet). At this moment I am adding information in Wikidata about > Tanzanian wards based on sw.wikipedia categories and templates. > > Many of the African language Wikipedias are struggling. By making the > lists as complete as possible based on categories and lists, the > information becomes more useful and better, it can be and is used in the > same manner on multiple Wikipedias. At this moment zu yo en sw Wikipedia. > As the information is made available using Listeria lists, the information > gets updated as and when new information becomes available. > > Another notion of mine is that it will help with individual info boxes eg > for politicians, or indeed Tanzanian wards .. :) > > NB I am a big fan of providing information using machine translation. > However, PLEASE consider the lessons learned from the Cebuano Wikipedia and > make the texts available in a cached way; not in the final form as saved > text. > Thanks, > GerardM > > PS when there is something where we can collaborate, please let me know. > > > [1] https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtumiaji:GerardM > > On 18 June 2018 at 01:12, Olya Irzak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Wikidata community, >> >> We're working on a project called Wikibabel to machine-translate parts of >> Wikipedia into underserved languages, starting with Swahili. >> >> In hopes that some of our ideas can be helpful to machine translation >> projects, we wrote a blogpost about how we prioritized which pages to >> translate, and what categories need a human in the loop: >> https://medium.com/@oirzak/wikibabel-equalizing-information- >> access-on-a-budget-4038f750e90e >> >> Rumor has it that the Wikidata community has thought deeply about >> information access. We'd love your feedback on our work. Please let us know >> about past / ongoing machine translation related projects so we can learn >> from & collaborate with them. >> >> Best regards, >> Olya & the Wikibabel crew >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com - CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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