Difference between revisions of "Translating wikimedia"

Revision as of 10:11, 21 February 2011

To translate wikimedia formatted text, like Wikipedia articles, there are several options.

apertium-desmediawiki/-remediawiki in the apertium package is installed by default, but only handles the basics
- Usage: cat es-article.wiki | apertium-desmediawiki | apertium -f none es-ca | apertium-remediawiki > ca-article.wiki

apertium-mediawiki -- a newer work-in-progress format handler that handles links better (see below)

Mediawiki Extension:Translate -- if you run a wiki, you can install this to use Apertium through it

but can you actually translate wikimedia-formatted articles with it, or just po-files and such?

you can run a clean-up script such as wikifix.pl (which is written for nn-nb) after just using the regular format handler

This is a work-in-progress full format handler for mediawiki.

Download and compile like this:

   svn co https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-mediawiki
   sh autogen.sh
   make
   sudo make install

You should now be able to do

   cat es-article.wiki | demediawiki | apertium -f none es-ca | remediawiki > ca-article.wiki

This extension was originally hosted at https://code.google.com/p/apertium-mediawiki/ , those pages still hold some documentation.

To run the regression tests:

   make test

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     svn co https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-mediawiki
-    sh make.sh
+    sh autogen.sh
+    make
+    sudo make install
+You should now be able to do
-There's no real makefile yet, so just put that directory in your $PATH, e.g. by adding <code>PATH=/path/to/apertium-mediawiki:$PATH</code> into your <code>~/.bash_profile</code>.
-Open a new terminal and you should be able to do
     cat es-article.wiki | demediawiki | apertium -f none es-ca | remediawiki > ca-article.wiki
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 This extension was originally hosted at https://code.google.com/p/apertium-mediawiki/ , those pages still hold some documentation.
+To run the regression tests:
+    make test
 ==See also==