Comments on: Translation through Wikipedia

By: Fred Rocha

Fred Rocha — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:48:36 +0000

Hey, great job.

I had a a similar idea in my head for some time, and I’ve implemented a similar system to Wikislate. It relies on a slightly different approach, and on some fancier interface technology.

Take a look, if you will, and let me know what you think:

http://www.fredrocha.net/MemeMiner/

thanks!

fred

By: linda

linda — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:29:28 +0000

Great job
quite good script

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By: serlui

serlui — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:45:05 +0000

hi there!

just to thank your wonderful script eheh, i’ve been thinking about that possibility, very helpful.

i guess you should do as marcin said, let the word know about your site!!

By: Marcin

Marcin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:47:54 +0000

If I could suggest some improvements:
- make a selectable list of languages you wish to translate into
- copy to it’s own domain, add some preety graphics and let the world know!

By: Marcin

Marcin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:46:08 +0000

Hi, just writing to say thanks for this neat tool!
I used it for translating names of 50 European countries into 5 languages, and it took me not more than an hour. It probably saved me DAYS of dull work.
You’re the guy!
best regards from Poland

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:20:25 +0000

@elzr: Thanks! YubNub seems like a cool/weird idea

@JohannesK: I’m glad you like the script. It is possible to implement your suggestion, quite simple actually.
About Wikipedia’s policy, frankly I don’t know. However, if they ever complain about bandwidth (yeah, right ) or anything else – it is then possible to create a new site using Wikipedia’s freely available database, and make the script even faster and more efficient!

By: JohannesK

JohannesK — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:46:41 +0000

Hi there,
I’ve been searching for a tool for using the language links within Wikipedia for doing translations.
Part of my job is translating stuff from English to other languages (Italian, German, etc). I’ve thought about coding it myself but then thought I’d google a bit and now elzr (http://elzr.com/posts/wikipedia-as-a-translator-of-nouns)
gave me your link. Very nice tool. I like it a lot.

I got a question. Is it possible to call the page with a link and give it the target language as a parameter?

Like http://wikislate.bonf.net/index.php?source=en&destination=it&term=Boy+scout

It would be easier for certain applications bc this way i have first find the language in the website…

But even with out this lil thing I think its a really useful tool for specialized translations.

What’s Wikipedia’s policy on stuff like that. Do they want/support external uses?

Cheers!

By: elzr

elzr — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:14:52 +0000

Hi Ben!

I just got an email from someone wondering too about this idea of using Wikipedia for translations (http://elzr.com/posts/wikipedia-as-a-translator-of-nouns). I referenced him to your wikislate script and along the way I made a handy YubNub (http://yubnub.org/) command out of it, wikislate (http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=wikislate).

I’ts a neat, simple script you did, you know…

Cheers!