![]() When I first got interested in the subject, in the mid-1970s, I ran across a letter written in 1947 by the mathematician Warren Weaver, an early machine-translation advocate, to Norbert Wiener, a key figure in cybernetics, in which Weaver made this curious claim, today quite famous: This baffles me.Īs a language lover and an impassioned translator, as a cognitive scientist and a lifelong admirer of the human mind’s subtlety, I have followed the attempts to mechanize translation for decades. Indeed, many thoughtful people are quite enamored of translation programs, finding little to criticize in them. But my skepticism was clearly not shared by these two. How odd! Why would two intelligent people, each of whom spoke the other’s language well, do this? My own experiences with machine-translation software had always led me to be highly skeptical of it. ![]() Frank would write a message in English, then run it through Google Translate to produce a new text in Danish conversely, she would write a message in Danish, then let Google Translate anglicize it. However, to my surprise, during the evening’s chitchat it emerged that the two friends habitually exchanged emails using Google Translate. ![]() As for his friend, her English was fluent, as is standard for Scandinavians. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. Tools like this one can locate articles that may need translation by finding articles in other languages with no interwiki link to English, but interwiki links to several other languages.One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest.Browse the appropriate language category to find an article you are interested in. Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias contains all articles that have been tagged to suggest that they be expanded with content from another language's Wikipedia translated into English.For that, please see Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. It is also not for articles currently in English Wikipedia that are not in English. Note that this page is not for requesting translations of copyrighted sources outside Wikipedia. Each Wikipedia has its own standards, and the acceptance of an article's topic or of any part of its content in one language is no guarantee that it will be accepted in another. In all cases, articles must meet the relevant notability criteria and other guidelines applicable to articles on the English-language Wikipedia. ask a translator directly on their talk page, by taking a look at the list of available translators or the category of available translators.Note that fewer people will likely see a request created using this method. add a page request red link in the Requested articles Project section with the proposed title of the article which will contain the translation adding an interwiki link to the other language's Wikipedia page(s).once you have created the article, tag it with a translation template, as mentioned above.create a starter article (at least a stub) in English, using the process described at Your first article.If the English article does not yet exist:.For example, to request improvement of the English article on Fuerteventura, based on the equivalent article on Spanish Wikipedia, place on the English article Fuerteventura. simply place a translation template from the category Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates on the English article page.If the English article already exists (but a translation would be useful because the article in the other language is of higher quality, or includes additional information):.Requesting a translation from another language's Wikipedia into English is easy. The same conditions regarding acknowledging the source apply as for a full translation. You may also improve an existing article here with content translated from another Wikipedia. If there is an article on another language's Wikipedia about a topic not yet covered by an article here, and you would like to translate it yourself, see the procedures and conditions at Help:Translation.
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