Sunday, September 05, 2010

Google #Translate for #Wikipedia please

Jean-Baptiste Noulet is credited as a pioneer of the study of human fossils of the prehistory. As Mr Noulet is French and it was in Toulouse where a gallery was opened in 1872 dedicated to finds from the prehistory. In 1882 a university chair was created dedicated to the study of the prehistory.

There is nothing to learn on the English Wikipedia on Mr Noulet. There is on the French Wikipedia and because of an exchange of e-mails on the subject of collaboration of the French chapter with GLAMs, I needed to learn more. I used Google translate by copying and pasting the text.

For the people who have difficulties reading my blog, I provide Google translate as a service. I would love Wikipedia to provide the same service.
Thanks,
      GerardM

3 comments:

Dami said...

Probably, Wikipedia shouldn't tie itself to one translation provider too tightly...

Anyhow, Google Chrome and the Translate bookmarklets (http://translate.google.com/translate_buttons), as well as the Google Toolbar, provide translation functionality for any page - not just Wikipedia.

I know it's not the most convenient for less tech savvy users, but it is one more reason to promote a conscious choice about browsers.

Unknown said...

Well, I've thrown together an enwiki article stub as best I could, but it's not very good - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Noulet

Most problematic is the lack of sources online, which makes existence on enwiki challenging.

GerardM said...

Three are probably enough sources in French.. Certainly in the Orleans museum :)
Thanks,
GerardM