Re: [Tiki-devel] Google Translate API to be shut "Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse"

[Robert P. <rob...@gm...>]

Funny, isn't it popular demand that shut it down?

lol.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Marc Laporte <ma...@ma...> wrote:

> I read that it was re-instated by popular demand
> On 2011-11-24 1:25 PM, "Rodrigo Primo" <rod...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> FYI, some time ago all the machine translation tests stopped working. I'm
>> assuming this is because Google Translation API is not available anymore.
>>
>> I have marked all the tests as skipped.
>>
>> We need to decide what to do with the Machine Translation feature.
>> Apparently it is not working anymore, but it would be good if someone with
>> more knowledge of this feature could confirm this information. I just did a
>> quick test and I never used it before.
>>
>> Is there a reason to keep this feature without Google Translation API?
>> Should we remove it? Any alternatives to Google Translation API? Anyone
>> willing to maintain this feature?
>>
>> Cheers, Rodrigo.
>>
>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Desilets, Alain <
>> Ala...@nr...> wrote:
>>
>>>  This will put a wrench in the Machine Translation features of Tiki.
>>>
>>> We could try to use the Google Translation Element, but I suspect it
>>> won't give us enough control to do the kind of stuff we want to do. Here's
>>> a scenario where it probably won't work.
>>>
>>> * You go to a page that is only available in Chinese, and you can't read
>>> Chinese.
>>> * So you click on the "English (Machine Translated)" item in the
>>> language menu.
>>> * This displays the page in English, using GT to translate the content
>>> from Chinese.
>>> * On this page, there is a link for which GT has translate the caption
>>> to "learn about us". This is a page that is in fact available in both
>>> Chinese AND English. But GT doesn't know about this.
>>> * So, when you click on the link you get a Machine Translated version
>>> of the page, eventhough there was a human translated version of it.
>>>
>>> Alain
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Marc Laporte [ma...@ma...]
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:48 AM
>>> *To:* Tikiwiki developers
>>> *Subject:* [Tiki-devel] Google Translate API to be shut "Due to the
>>> substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse"
>>>
>>>   "fuzheado: Google Translate API to be shut "Due to the substantial
>>> economic burden caused by extensive abuse" Hmm. http://bit.ly/mnEqT6"
>>> --http://twitter.com/fuzheado/status/74848219661733888
>>>
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