MediaWikibespreking:Gadgets-definition
Dear friends; please look at the links at commons:user:i18n#useful links. Thanks in advance! Best regards Gangleri
·לערי ריינהארט·T·m:Th·T·email me· 17:44, 7 Februarie 2008 (UTC)
Proposal for GoogleTrans gadget wysig
Hi there,
Sorry about the English.
I have made a GoogleTrans gadget which has been on the enwiki for around a year now. It is also on 9 other wikipedias including the Dutch.
It functions like the Google toolbar translation feature. When you position the cursor over a word in a webpage and hit the SHIFT key, the Google translation of that word (or of selected text < 500 characters) appears in a popup below the cursor.
The help page for the gadget is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Endo999/GoogleTrans
(This has instructions on how to port over to other wikis).
and the code for it is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Endo999/GoogleTrans.js
It really works well for people who have intermediate Afrikaans as they can easily look up a word they don't know (every 2 or 3 sentences). This is how I use the tool to read French and Spanish webpages. However, the person who knows no Afrikaans (like me) can simply select a sentence or two and have it translated as well. In each popup there is a link to Google Translation Services. If you click on this link then the whole page is translated.
In your multilingual country there might be people who would like to pick up more Afrikaans by reading afwiki articles. They could use this gadget with profit.
Good luck with your afwiki.