[Chapter-delegates] Worldwide Lexicon

[Gerard Ross]

Hi Joly

Many thanks for passing on the link to this. It's a really interesting  
development and one that has the potential to match our needs.

We'll start looking into it in more detail.

Regards
- Gerard

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Gerard Ross
Senior Communications Manager
Internet Society
Email: ross at isoc.org




On 13/05/2008, at 1:02 PM, WWWhatsup wrote:

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>
> A story in yesterday's BoingBoing blog details Worldwide Lexicon - a  
> community translation system that enables a website's readers to  
> translate to the languages they speak.
>
> WWL is an open source project, and is developing a suite of tools to  
> enable websites and blogs to go multilingual, using a combination of  
> machine translation, volunteers (readers) and professional  
> translators. The project's goal is to eliminate the language barrier  
> for interesting content by making it easy for people to form  
> translation communities and services around topics, websites or  
> languages. They will be releasing a professional translation hub,  
> under the New BSD license, in early summer. If you're interested in  
> contributing code to the project, or in helping localize the  
> interface to more languages, contact Brian McConnell (brian at worldwidelexicon.org 
> )
>
> Boing Boing itself is testing the service at http://boingboing.dermundo.com/
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