On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tisza Gergo <gti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Magnus Manske <magnusman...@...> writes: > >> Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query >> run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language >> editions of Wikipedia for articles from the individual words (in this >> case, "Pferd" and "Schach"), count how many exist, pick the language >> with the most hits (in this case, German), and put a link to link to >> Nikola's tool under the search box. The link pre-fills the source >> language and query in the tool, which automatically opens the >> appropriate search page. > > Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if one > exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel: > > http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Pferd%20Schach > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect > > It might support less languages then we have wikipedias for, but I'm pretty > sure > it would give better results for the major ones.
Well, that's what I suggested a few mails ago in this very thread. However, people didn't seem to want it. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
