583045 - Support bulk string translate

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Input :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

since input allows you to sort comments by locale, it'd be nice to have a bulk string translate button at the bottom, and then redisplay them in the input results in the locale of your choice.  

currently you have to translate them one by one to see what the comment is saying.

woudln't that be sexy?

repro:
1) go to input dashboard
2) pick a locale that you dont understand and sort by it (eg. fr)
3) all comments display in that locale, but translate button only is per comment only

Expected:
- have a bulk translate button that changes and displays all those comments in your locale of choice, with just one click. or two.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I don't think Google Translate lets us do that :-/ In fact, I don't think it has an AJAX interface. If it does, however, and if it (*gasp*) even allows cross-site access, we could use it.

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Yeah, the most possible solution here is Mozilla creating its own web-base translation service and then having an API that we can hook on to.

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla creating its own web-base translation service

rofl

Comment 4

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Agree with Tony that this would be nice, but honestly we'd need to do this server side, and there's no available API that can support the numbers we'd need.

The only option I've seen is Google's which is capped.  If there are other high quality translation systems with APIs that can support a few thousand translations per day let me know.