On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking for a free (possibly open source) provider of automatic > translations for my open source application I am working on and quite > had troubles finding some. Then I realized we have a project called > "wiktionary" which could possibly (I was assuming it's open > dictionary) help me here, but I was quite disappointed as I couldn't > find any simple way to perform simple queries like: > > translate "banana" from english to czech > > I think that we could (maybe should in spirit of openness and > wikiness) have some wiki-based web application that would serve this > purpose - allow people query / translate simple words, but maybe even > whole phrases. If anyone could edit this, maybe it would grow up into > huge dictionary of all possible or frequent phrases that could be > easily translated to any language on world. > > Do we already have anything like this?
It doesn't exist yet but it is on the longer-term (aka 2015 earliest) plan for the Wikidata team. The current proposal is at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
