Talk:Wordfast

smells like copyright violation and/or an advert of the author...--Wondigoma (talk) 18:51, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Overhaul
Well, I think this product deserves a better page on Wikipedia.

To begin with, I think the "History" section should be removed (almost entirely) since the history of each product is different, and the history of the individual products would have to be told when discussing the products anyway. This means, therefore, that each product should get an item in the TOC, and not just a casual mention. -- leuce (talk) 19:08, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm going to do away with that "Translation Studio" thingy, since the WF web site doesn't even have a page for it, and only mentions it as a menu item. Also, the current wiki article states that WFA and WFS is part of the "Studio", but on the WF web site they are listed separate from it.  Also, while for a while one would get WFC for free when buying WFP in a bundle, it is no longer the case. -- leuce (talk) 19:14, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * The Translation Studio page is here, currently Studio=WFC+WFP, no clue what may have been included in the past: http://www.wordfast.com/products_wordfast_translation_studio --Bstard12 (talk) 13:41, 7 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm removing the "Pro Plus" item since WF's own web site does not mention it and it is only referred to in passing by other sites. -- leuce (talk) 19:19, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Aah, small wonder the "Pro Plus" section is no longer on the WF web site -- they've now made all Pro Plus features available to everyone: http://www.wordfast.com/support_release_notes.html -- leuce (talk) 07:13, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

The big revert of July 2012
Somewhere in June 2012 most of the content that I had researched and added was removed in bulk, and replaced with content that is mostly unsourced, removes less complimentary information about Wordfast and the company, contains errors, and is written in a largely advertising type of style. I'm sure that that information can be mined for useful titbits, so I place it here:

"1999: Wordfast was founded in Paris by Yves Champollion and introduces its MS Word-based TM tool (now Wordfast Classic). The initial release was a free version featuring a small Translation Memory of up to 13,000 units. "

"2002: With 5,000 early adopters, Wordfast became a paid commercial application. The TM reached a 500,000 unit capacity and allowed for the use of three simultaneous glossaries."

"2006: WFC added several important features including real-time QA, support for external resources such as Machine Translation and third-party commercial dictionaries, and options for collaboration."

"2008: Wordfast introduced Wordfast Server, a TM server application designed to enable real-time TM sharing."

"2009: Recognizing the benefits users would reap when working outside of the MS Word interface, Wordfast released Wordfast Pro (WFP), a standalone TM tool written in Java. WFP is designed  to handle batch processing of files with ease and efficiency. WFP can also be used to translate a wider variety of file formats and handle more complex translation-related tasks."

"2010: Wordfast released a free online tool known as Wordfast Anywhere (WFA) which allowed translators to work on projects from virtually any web-enabled device. Within 6 months of its official release, Wordfast Anwyhere exceeded 10,000 registered users. ."

"Today: Wordfast maintains the second largest customer base in the world, including over 30,000 multinational organizations, translation agencies and freelance translators. The Wordfast product line now covers the entire spectrum in both hardware (PDAs, Smartphones, Tablet devices such as the iPad, PCs) and software (Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as locally installed applications or cloud-based architecture)."

"Wordfast Classic (WFC) is a set of macros that run in Microsoft Word. Translators work directly inside of the MS Word environment without the need to run any other applications or extensions.?   WFC can run on Windows, Mac and Linux with MS Word 97 or higher installed, however, it cannot run on Mac Word 2008."

"Wordfast Pro (WFP) is a standalone, platform-independent desktop TM tool. WFP was designed specifically to address the needs of translation agencies and corporations in addition to freelance translators. WFP's standalone environment allows for high-speed batch processing of files, as well as the ability to handle file formats other than MS Word. WFP also offers powerful tools to handle complex project management tasks. WFP can run on Windows XP and higher, Mac OSX 10.4 and higher, and Linux."

"Wordfast Anywhere (WFA) is a FREE browser-based TM tool which allows translators to work on projects from anywhere they have internet connection. WFA users can upload TM assets to a secure, password-protected workspace and access them from any web browser."

"Wordfast Anywhere's privacy policy is that all uploaded documents remain confidential inside of the users password-protected workspace and are not shared with anyone unless the user specifically invites them. Users can optionally use machine translation and access a large read-only public translation memory. "

"Wordfast Anywhere can be used on virtually any web-enabled device including smartphones, pda's, and tablets such iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and Palm OS, .  Since April 2011, Wordfast Anywhere has built-in optical character recognition of PDF files. "

-- leuce (talk) 19:02, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The Mysterious Matter of the Missing CafeTran
I don't know how much of this you may have been following, but there are strange powers at work here on Wikipedia. For several years now, people have been trying to create a page for CafeTran. However, no matter what people do, the page is blocked every step of the way. Now, I know that if you are a professional translator, you will probably have heard of CafeTran by now. Hell, Proz.com, the largest platform for translators in the world offers it for free now as part of their Plus Package!

Anyway, the Wikipedia goblins have since removed ALL traces of all the hard work that we but into trying to create a page for CafeTran. Have a look at what is left:


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafetran_Espresso
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cafetran_Espresso

Then go to:

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer-assisted_translation_tools

… and look at all the CAT tool that ARE allowed to have their own pages:


 * Across (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_Language_Server)
 * Crowdin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdin)
 * Déjà Vu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Vu_(software))
 * GlobalSight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalSight)
 * Gtranslator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtranslator)
 * MateCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MateCat)
 * memoQ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemoQ)
 * MetaTexis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaTexis)
 * OmegaT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmegaT)
 * Open Language Tools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Language_Tools)
 * Phrase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase_(software))
 * Poedit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poedit)
 * Pootle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle)
 * SDL Trados Studio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDL_Trados_Studio)
 * SmartCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartCAT)
 * Virtaal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtaal)
 * Wordfast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordfast)

What on earth is going on here?

If CafeTran is not ‘notable’ (I think that was their main reason for now allowing a page about it), then it would stand to reason that most of the above CAT tool articles should also be deleted, right?

MichaelBeijer (talk)