[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Communs

Wed May 26 22:12:45 UTC 2004

--- Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Imagine...
> 
> You go to a polish article (for a change), one not
> covered by your pedia. You click on a little link
> "EditTranslate". Enter a new title for your new (own
> language) article. A window open in your own
> wikipedia, with the new title, containing
> automatically the machine-translated text. Plus, you
> have a handy tool bar, where you may enter some of the
> words in original or new language and where you get
> information from Wiktionary...translations if
> possible, and definitions of this word. Upon time, I
> am sure the capacity of wiktionary to define and
> translate words will be quite good, and might be a
> useful add-on to google translation (which are not
> always satisfying).
> 
> I am not sure I am clear here, but imho, there should
> be at any time, on wikipedia, a sort of search box
> where we could quickly enter a word of any wikipedia
> article, a word we do not understand well, and get
> immediately definition and translation in other
> languages.

Yes - all that would be great. 

--mav

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