Proposal:Content translated automatically
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[edit] Summary
That Wikipedia uses a translator bot to auto translate every page
[edit] Proposal
Instead of having a wiki in every language there should be a translator bot that translated the posts into a universal language like English for storage on a server. When someone wants to view a page it is translated to their language and so is are edits the make. This would save a lot of space on your servers. However, on pages that must be localized this bot could be stopped. That way we could HAVE a "world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge" regardless of the language we speak.
[edit] Motivation
Saving server space and allowing people that speak Herero which has 0 articles access to the 2,991,243 articles on the English Wikipedia.
[edit] Key Questions
- Would a translator be able to accurately translate text into all the languages Wiki has?
- How would images with text be translated and replaced with correct formatting?
- Why get rid of local languages communities?
- How can we make that only non-locally-existent pages are machine-translated from another language?
- Why English is supposed to be the language which has always the better content?
- What do we do where different wikis have different POVS - for example the Hebrew and Arabic wikipedias on assorted subjects re the Holy Land?
[edit] Potential Costs
Acquiring a translator probably with source but Google does have an API. Adding new languages but this could be done by Wikipedians like announcements are.
[edit] References
- Note: This may not work for Wiktionary as words that mean the same in English might not in say Chinese.
- Proposal:Extended use of interwiki
- [intlwiki-l] Old discussions on the problem
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