I got around to implementing a feature I’ve been planning for What Language Is This? today: feedback. Not the comments – that’s been there from the start – but a way of sending immediate feedback on specific results. So that if you disagree with the result, or you know the correct language but it’s not yet supported, just click on “send feedback” that appears with each result, and a simple form pops up that where you can indicate what the problem with that result is.
The entered text can also be sent with the feedback, allowing me to gather more sample texts to use as material for the statistical analysis used as a basis when identifying the language, and for testing (there’s an automatic test feature built in to What Language Is This?, just run selftest() from a JavaScript console on the page and it’ll test all supported languages to check for regressions – very handy when updating the database, since it’s easy to accidentally break some of the fine tuning).
Anyway, I think it’ll be useful, and I hope everyone will use it a lot since it’ll help me improve the site. I’m already getting a lot of useful and encouraging comments so it’s really fun to keep on developing it. For the next update I’ll probably add more languages.
