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Add dictionary lookup to Content Translation
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Description

Sometings, when using Content Translation, the existing machine translation services do not have the right translation for a word, or even no translation at all. In some of those cases, the user translating the article may also doesn't know the meaning of the word.

For some language pairs, a bilingual dictionary lookup is enabled, in most cases, using FreeDict as the source. But it would be great to also have source language definitions of the words.

The flow would be: a user selects a word in the source text and a box with the definition of the word (coming from Wiktionary, for example).

That will help the translators to get better context, and create better translations.

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Marked as an epic ticket since dictionary support may involve several connected tasks. After an early exploration (with the conclusion that using Wiktionary was not viable), we decided to wait until Wikidata lexical information is solid enough to base the dictionary support on it. At that point, we'll reconsider to increase the priority.