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Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

AaronF — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:06:50 -0000

Inspired by @Lorna Li's comment about machine translation, Steve Bjorg wrote an extension to Google Translate for machine translation of page content. He said it took him about 10 mins to add the extension. Check it out here: http://wiki.opengarden.org/... What's happening is when a user selects a different language a Google web-service is invoked which translates the page on the fly. Pretty sweet.

Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

AaronF — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:17:51 -0000

It's all human translated. MindTouch Deki Wiki has been translated to 16 langs so far, but I know of a few other translations in the works. The content is already authored in different languages. What's new here is a single app that can be made to display the UI in different langs, allows search across all langs, prioritizes by the users' default lang and allows relationships between articles in different langs to be created on-the-fly, easily.

Watch the video, it makes it all clear. :-)

Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

Lorna Li — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:06:21 -0000

Sounds like a great solution - I'm curious how the translation works. Are you employing translation software, or do you have human editors edit the translated pages? I haven't come across any software that can deliver accurate translations.

Lorna Li
Green Marketing 2.0

Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

AaronF — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:45:31 -0000

Thanks for the coverage! Thorough as always. :-)

Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

AaronF — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:45:02 -0000

Wow. I'm really surprised to hear this. MindTouch's Deki Wiki is the most popular enterprise wiki today. There are well over 200,000 installs in the wild and this occurred in under two years. At MindTouch we're literally inundated with emails from users talking about how much they "love" the software. I don't know how long it's been since you've tried MindTouch Deki Wiki, but I encourage you to take another look. In addition to the VMware certified appliance there are several hosting options, including MindTouch's free hosting site: www.wik.is and there are now packages for all the popular Linux Distributions http://wiki.mindtouch.com/O... .

Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

Jared Essig — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:11:58 -0000

At the Tower of Babel, one language was dispersed in to many, and it brought confusion.

At Pentecost, people of many languages heard a single language as if it were each person's own, and it brought understanding.

That's how the story goes at least. Depending on the quality of translation software, that might be the allusion you're going for. ;-)

Re: Mozilla’s Tower of Babel, Powered by Mindtouch

Sridhar Katakam — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:08:48 -0000

Deploying Deki Wiki for intranet usage using a virtual solution (vmware) is one of the crappiest solutions I've seen.