Wikitrans.net Website Review

  Welcome to WikiTrans, where we provide machine-translated versions of Wikipedia articles, completely linked and searchable in the target language, as well as cross language simultaneous Wikipedia searches.     The WIKITRANS project is an ongoing research and development project carried out by the Danish language technology company access between individual-language Wikipedias. First of all, the idea is to make the largest Wikipedia of all - the English one, with over 3 million articles - available in Esperanto and Danish translations. Though both these languages are among the bigger Wikipedias, their ~ 130.000 articles each amount to only a fraction of what is available for English. In addition, the individual articles are often considerably smaller than their English counterparts, less thoroughly researched or simply so-called stubs. WikiTrans translations are transfer rules. Both the continued development of the MT system and the fact that Wikiedia articles are constantly being updated, call for a framework with regular updates. Thus, new articles are integrated as they appear for English, and older translations are repeated at intervals of a few months. Given the fact that even many original Wikipedia articles in smaller languages are partially translated from or at least inspired by existing articles in a larger language, automatic translation should help to facilitate the work of Wikipedia authors interested in closing the English-Esperanto and English-Danish article gap. At its site (e.g. epo.wikitrans.net for Esperanto), the translated material can be searched for both original and translated encyclopedia entries in parallel. In addition, the Lucene-based search engine will find - and order - full text hits, illustrated with snippets. Disambiguation for multiple entries is achieved as a side-effect of this, nor is it necessary to maintain referring pages for secondary or synonymous encyclopedia entries, most of which will easily be found and redirected by the site's search engine. The first phase of the WikiTrans project targeted the Esperanto-translation of