Babelfish Translation

By michal frackowiak

Description

So you have a site in some language but you want to enable automatic translations so that users who do not know this language could read it too…

Online translation services comes to the rescue. We have found that the easiest solution to embed and use is the Yahoo wrapper for Babelfish.

What you have to do is to go to this page: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service and look at the the second solution (on the right). Choose the language you want to translate from and click "I want this one" button to get the code. Embed the code as shown below.

Code

[[embed]]
<script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service/babelfish2.js?from_lang=en&region=us"></script>
[[/embed]]

In action

Notes

It might be nice to put this into your side bar (located by default at nav:side).

When using the translated version of the page you can still navigate through the site in the chosen language. BUT it is not possible to interact with the site (edit, rate etc.) any more.

Sometimes the translated pages might have broken layout.

You can also put the other solution here ("Translate any text or pages") and embed the code too. This enables you to translate any string you input into the box.

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Solution for Broken Layout?

legalstock 1199111009|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I'm having trouble with a broken layout. Does anyone have a solution on how to fix it?

more languages

dennyhalim 1210775157|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

if you want more languages, see my widgetbox: http://wiki.dennyhalim.com/mywidget

you can get my widgets here:
http://www.widgetbox.com/search?q=dennyhalim+translate&m=50

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Centering

W4ABG 1228225660|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

How do I center it within the side bar?

Thanks!

Re: Centering

BlueZero 1236066385|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Try the following:

[[div style="text-align: center;"]]

(put whatever you want to be centered.  Here probably the Babelfish code)

[[/div]]

last edited on 1236066409|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover by BlueZero + show more

Using this with a private wikidot

Roland Bracht 1240867264|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,
I do have some problems using this feature with a private wikidot. As soon as I translate a page, I end up in the login screen (which of course is translated, buts thats not what i expected). I am not able to translate any page on a private wikidot.

Please HELP !!!

Thanks
Roland

One more problem

Roland Bracht 1240867545|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi all,
another problem is, that custom domains dont seem to work well. As soon as I translate a custom domain wikidot, the translation process never ends.

Again, please HELP … !

Thanks
Roland

PS: Anyway, I would prefer to use Google Translation instead of Yahoo … !

Re: One more problem

Helmuti_pdorf 1240994173|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Not sure - but I have never seen on a private site a translation fro OUTSIDE the wiki.

The Private means realy - "private" .. neither google nor other service can READ the site and its pages.
( they need to be members of the site…)

Hope this is correct.

Sorry for the bad message..

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