Babelfish Translation

By michal-frackowiak

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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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Thanks to tsangk for this great snippet: conditional-blocks

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text above inserted with:

[[include :snippets:if START |unique=1|type=equal|var1=%%name%%|var2=conditional-blocks]]
**##red|Thanks to tsangk for this great snippet:##** [[[code:conditional-blocks]]]
[[include :snippets:if END]]

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Merhabalar 13 Feb 2021 18:48

[[include :scp-wiki:theme:black-highlighter-theme]]
[[include :scp-wiki:theme:ouroborous-theme]]

Helmut_pdorf 18 Feb 2021 16:04

? ? ? ?

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Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.

Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?

One more problem

Roland Bracht 27 Apr 2009 21:25

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

Helmut_pdorf 29 Apr 2009 08:36

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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Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.

Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?

Using this with a private wikidot

Roland Bracht 27 Apr 2009 21:21

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

Centering

W4ABG 02 Dec 2008 13:47

How do I center it within the side bar?

Thanks!

Re: Centering

BlueZero 03 Mar 2009 07:46

Try the following:

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

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

[[/div]]

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more languages

dennyhalim 14 May 2008 14:25

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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Solution for Broken Layout?

legalstock 31 Dec 2007 14:23

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