A translate button would be nice

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  realismbegins · Member · Oct 28, 2012 at 10:02 pm

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  When somebody posts a problem that needs resolving but it is in a different language could it be possible to have a translate button next to the post so admin or moderators or other commentors can assist with their issues?

  This may save on space of having to have so many different forums and also the comments they write in other languages just might be of help to people of other languages too.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 28, 2012 at 10:06 pm

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  Machine translation if inferior to the translation available from human translators. WordPress.com is richly blessed with human translators and has several support forums in languages other than English. That’s why I don’t believe eliminating the other language forums we have is a viable suggestion. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-in-other-languages-not-english?replies=1

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  realismbegins · Member · Oct 28, 2012 at 10:17 pm

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  Are there any human translators on this particular forum? because all I have seen tonight is links being given out to the different language forums.

  A translate button still could help other users just so we can see what they are asking and if it will help us in anyway.

  I think it is a fair suggestion.

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  felicialena · Member · Nov 5, 2012 at 5:35 pm

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  I think so too, I’m Greek actually and I know people who have difficulty in understand English and thus don’t read my blog.
  I also believe that the button should just lead to a human translation rather than one made by the computer.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2012 at 5:39 pm

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  @yushikol
  There is no FTP access and we cannot install plugins because this is a multiuser blogging platform ie. our blogs are not free standing and there are security issues that would arise if that access were allowed. Google translation widgets are Javascript and it’s stripped out to preserve security on this mutiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

  I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/

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  felicialena · Member · Nov 5, 2012 at 5:45 pm

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  umm… I don’t really understand but it seems like automatic translation is really bad.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 pm

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  I agree that automatic translation isn’t great.