View source for Ideas for Google Summer of Code/Apertium website improvements

The Apertium translation website is pretty cool, but we can make it even cooler. This project consists of various website (and API) improvement tasks.

==Tasks==

The website consists of two pieces: the front-end, html-tools, (https://github.com/apertium/apertium-html-tools) and the back-end API (https://github.com/apertium/apertium-apy) called APy. Some tasks follow and a full listing can be found on the project pages: https://github.com/apertium/apertium-html-tools/projects/1 and https://github.com/apertium/apertium-apy/projects/2.

* Add "dictionary lookup" mode for single-word translations. 
** Should give synonyms and alternative translations.
** It should rank the translations by likelihood.
* Add a mode that colours the resulting translation depending on how reliable it is. 
** One possibility would be for language pairs to have different colours depending on WER or something.
* Make language detection work properly and do "did you mean" style if people choose an unlikely source language.

===Work in progress===
Past GCI/GSoC have generated some work that just needs some polishing (e.g. last [GSoC](http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/GSOC'16_Kira's_results._Apertium_website_improvements)). These are summarized on the project page and a few are included below.
* An "improve this translation" option https://github.com/apertium/apertium-html-tools/pull/35
* "website translation" option https://github.com/apertium/apertium-html-tools/pull/41
** Needs improvements to APY to be able to split long pages into several requests without breaking html

==Coding challenges==

# Install the Apertium website with some language pairs on a server under your control, test that it works correctly. This means installing both APy and Html-tools.
# Check out the list of coding challenges found within https://github.com/apertium/apertium-html-tools/projects/1 and https://github.com/apertium/apertium-apy/projects/2. 
# Send us a pull request with your code.
# Work with us to get your code merged!

==See also==

* [[apertium-html-tools]]
* [[apertium-apy]]


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