Translating Wikipedia articles more easily
It is not easy to explain the following with plain sentences so let’s take an example. Say I want to translate the following paragraph from English to French:
Tokyo is known for its many museums. Located in [[Ueno Park]] are the [[Tokyo National Museum]], the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional [[Japanese art]]; the National Museum of Western Art; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, which contains collections of Japanese [[modern art]] as well as over 10,000 Japanese and foreign films.
In order to complete the translation, I will need the French article name for [[Ueno Park]], [[Tokyo National Museum]], [[Japanese art]] etc. Seeking all those names is quite boring and time-consuming, isn’t it ? So I have written a little tool in Ruby that does that for us. In this very example, the program would have output:
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Ueno_Park: interwiki link to fr found (Parc de Ueno)
Tokyo_National_Museum: interwiki link to fr found (Musée national de Tōkyō)
Japanese_art: interwiki link to fr found (Art japonais)
modern_art: interwiki link to fr found (Art moderne)
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Tokyo is known for its many museums. Located in [[Parc de Ueno]] are the [[Musée national de Tōkyō]], the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional [[Art japonais]]; the National Museum of Western Art; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, which contains collections of Japanese [[Art moderne]] as well as over 10,000 Japanese and foreign films.
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