American Badger: Wikidata / World University and School collaboration possibilities ... Structure of Wikidata from which WUaS might develop an Universal Translator?, In what 2 ways, for example, in broad strokes could someone write an application based on Wikidata's information structures that would lead to comparative translators? Nascent Wikidata interlingual projects engaging MIT OCW's translated courses (or STEM-centric OER courses)?, Looks like Wiktionary and MediaWiki Content translation may provide another approach to a possible Universal Translator, as well as translation of Wikipedia pages

Wikidata / World University and School possibilities ...

Structure of Wikidata from which WUaS might develop an Universal Translator?

[18:40] Lydia_WMDE: Can you outline in broad strokes the potential for translation coded into Wikidata, perhaps via a synchronization tool you asked for in email a few days ago or in other ways (and perhaps differentially from Google Translate)? Eventually, will individual words in one language in Wikidata (so item by item? ... e.g. what's a basic unit in Wikidata ... can a word be a basic unit?) be translatable into all of 7,106 languages, for example

[18:44] ... but in what 2 ways, for example, in broad strokes, could someone write an application based on Wikidata's information structures (items and labels, about which one can then write scripts), that would lead to comparative translators?

[18:50] Are there any nascent (just coming into existence) Wikidata interlingual projects, in one way or another, that are engaging MIT OCW's translated courses (or STEM-centric OER courses) now in at least 8 languages (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) for translation, data aggregation, etc.? (I ask in the context of developing CC WUaS, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW, and planned inter-lingually for all 7,106 languages).

Wikidata IRC office hours transcript from May 19, 2014

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-05-19

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http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki ...

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Looks like Wikitionary and MediaWiki Content translation may provide another approach to a possible Universal Translator, as well ...

"This is currently being developed:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation

It will provide all the tools needed to translate wiki articles, including dictionary lookup. The back-end service interfaces will be fairly generic & will use open source tools like dictd and apertium, so might be useful for non-wiki projects.

You can also use existing commercial APIs of course" (GW at Wikimedia, 22 May 2014).

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Universal Translator page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator ...