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

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