Content translation/Section translation

languages Tracked|T243495 Section translation is an expansion of the current Content translation|Content Translation capabilities. Section translation enables users to expand existing Wikipedia articles by translating new sections. In addition, Section Translation is designed to work on mobile devices (in addition to desktop) using Content translation/CX3|a modernized front-end architecture. In this way, users will have new opportunities to translate that were not possible with Content Translation before. File:SectionTranslationScreencast20210729.ogg|thumb|Section Translation Screencast Section translation is the main project of the Boost initiative which is aimed at expanding the use of translation to help more communities to grow. Below you can find more information about the wikis the project will be focusing on. File:Cross-wiki content propagation concept.pdf|thumb|Document compiling example scenarios where new ways to contribute with translation can help content to propagate across wikis more fluently Please, provide any feedback about this initiative Talk:Content translation/Boost|in the discussion page. We are interested in hearing your ideas on how to help communities grow by using translation. More details and updates are provided below.

Try the tool
Section translation is in early development. For now it is https://test.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation available at a test server and Wikipedias in a few languages: Bengali, https://th.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation Thai, https://ig.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation Igbo, https://ha.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation Hausa, https://yo.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation Yoruba and https://ku.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation Kurdish.

Direct access
Section translation allows to link directly to a pre-selected article or section to translate by defining an appropriate url. This can be convenient for the integration with external tools. For example, you can create a link to https://test.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?page=Moon&from=en&to=es&sx=true translate the Moon article or https://test.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?page=Moon&section=Formation&from=en&to=es&sx=true the "Formation" section of the same article.

Entry points
Section Translation is integrated with the Wikipedia language selector on mobile. Searching for a language in which the article does not exist yet lets you create a translation for it. This is only available in the languages where Section Translation is already available (which will expand over time).File:Section-translation-mobile-screenshot.png|thumb|Section translation mobile editor

File:Section translation initial designs.pdf|thumb|Initial ideas on how to support section translation on desktop and mobile to expand articles. File:Section Translation Entry Points Design.pdf|thumb|Entry point ideas for Section Translation. File:Section Translation Design Specification.pdf|thumb| Design specification File:Section Translation Usability (Bengali) - Final Report.pdf|thumb|Section Translation Usability (Bengali) - Final Report

Goals and impact
File:Language Showcase 003 November 2019.webm|thumb|Language showcase November 2019, featuring the Boost project and Javanese Wikimedia community feedback about Content Translation These are the main goals for the project and metrics to measure them:


 * Grow the community of translators. Attract more users to translate (using different devices) that remain active over time and help recruit new translators.
 * Metric: Increase the percentage of new editors that completed their second translation in a month.
 * Grow the content available. Increase the coverage in both the topics available and their depth (information they contain).
 * Metric: Double the number of weekly translations on selected wikis (to create new content or extend existing one).

Boost initiative: communities with potential to grow with translation
Content translation]] has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities. It has already helped to create :en:Special:ContentTranslationStats|thousands of new articles while encouraging Help:Content translation/Translating/Translation quality|the creation of good quality translations.

We want to focus on Wikipedias with potential to grow by using translation. Research on Section translation and other initiatives to make translation in general more visible such as providing Content Translation access by default (out of beta) will involve and focus on the needs of these particular group of wikis.

This initiative is part of a long-term vision to support cross-wiki content propagation, and it is aligned with the metawiki:Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019|Wikimedia Foundation plans to "Grow participation globally, focusing on emerging markets" and increasing "Worldwide readership".

Communities to focus on
Wikipedias with less than 100K articles, a significant editing activity for the size of their wiki (more than 70 active editors), and making little use of translation currently (less than 100 translations per month).

Given the above, we initially selected the following Wikipedias: https://ml.wikipedia.org Malayalam, https://bn.wikipedia.org Bengali, https://tl.wikipedia.org Tagalog, https://jv.wikipedia.org Javanese, https://sq.wikipedia.org Albanian, and https://mn.wikipedia.org Mongolian.

As the project becomes more visible, other communities showed interest in the project, and some initiatives will be applied there too. These Wikipedias are https://bcl.wikipedia.org Central Bikol] and [https://ar.wikipedia.org Arabic.

Additional considerations
This small group of wikis represents a much larger group of communities that can grow with the proposed improvements. Selecting a small set allows us to focus and collaborate more closely with them. Nevertheless, we expect the improvements to benefit a larger number of wikis, and users from all wikis are definitely welcome to participate.

Provide your feedback
Please, provide any feedback Talk:Content translation/Boost|in the discussion page. We are interested in hearing your ideas on how to help communities grow by using translation and Section translation in particular.

You can also check phab:project/profile/4191/|the project in Phabricator to track the progress of the different tasks and share any comment about them.

Research
File:Section Translation Design Research.pdf|thumb|Section Translation Design Research Report The Language Team is also conducting research to better understand the language-related needs of different wikis. This research also supports the design process by evaluating ideas around new ways of expanding existing articles and contributing from mobile devices.


 * Section Translation Research – The :m:Research:Section Translation Design Research|Section Translation Design Research project evaluated current mobile prototypes with two small wikis. The project evaluated not only initial prototypes, but also a number of design changes after each round of testing. The project also supported design exploration by gathering interview data around critical assumptions of Section Translation, including the role of mobile and the relevance of article sections as a meaningful unit of translation.


 * Section Translation Usability Testing –https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Section_Translation_Usability_Testing_(Bengali_Wikipedia) The Section Translation Usability Testing (Bengali Wikipedia) project aimed to learn about the experiences of the first editors using Section Translation on the Bengali Wikipedia.


 * Section Translation Entry Points Design Research https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Section_Translation_Entry_Points_Design_Research The Section Translation Entry Points Design Research project investigated new ways that both experienced and new editors may discover translation opportunities, especially on mobile devices.

Status updates
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ym|2021|10

 * Improved consistency by phab:T290482|supporting the list of articles for later visually aligned with the desktop experience and listing all articles added regardless of their language pair.
 * Better section mapping by phab:T290954|keeping a consistent order as the sections listed in the article and phab:T291203|surfacing missing sections in the confirmation step.
 * More flexible language selection by phab:T287855|allowing to select the source language as target, resulting in an automatic language pair swap (instead of preventing such selection).

ym|2021|09

 * Better guidance by showing phab:T282439|more clear empty states when searching for an article to translate and more phab:T276435|specific messages when starting a translation depending on the sections available.
 * Better adaptation to multiple devices by phab:T287853|improving the layout of the quick tutorial in larger screens.
 * More opportunities to translate by phab:T287066|surfacing missing articles to create now that Section Translation allows to start new articles.
 * More opportunities to translate by phab:T260168|allowing users to keep articles to be translated for later.
 * Better guidance by phab:T259511|showing feedback (and gratitude) about the user modifications to a translation.
 * Better guidance by phab:T282455|showing a loading indicator when searching for articles to translate.
 * Better support for references by phab:T282369|avoiding some instances of reused references to disappear which was often affecting Wikiproject Medicine
 * phab:T286636#7345479|Initial data analysis of wikis with higher deletion ratios.
 * Completed phab:T288013|research plan and phab:T288015|initial compilation of materials for the study about how editors modify Machine Translation
 * Better guidance in Content Translation by phab:T285861|avoiding Machine Translation warnings to show too early before users had a chance to edit the translation.
 * phab:T287844|Updated test instances with latest operating system version.
 * Codebase cleanup by phab:T258766|removing support for old browsers.
 * Cleaner visual experience by phab:T282428|adjusting the language selector search bar borders.
 * Section Translation phab:T290175|available in Thai, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa Wikipedias.
 * More reliable language switching experience by phab:T283077|avoiding issues with previously unused source languages.

ym|2021|08

 * Published metawiki:Research:Section_Translation_Entry_Points_Design_Research|user research report for the Section Translation entry point study.
 * Section translation now supports to phab:T260144|start an article by translating the lead section, not just expand existing articles with a new section.
 * New entry point for Section Translation: phab:T260143|direct access to translate a section. This enables external tool integrations.
 * Better mapping of sections across languages by phab:T276059|ensuring sections always show as either missing or present when comparing two language versions of an article.
 * More clear navigation by phab:T285564|supporting back navigation from direct links, avoiding unnecessary steps phab:T276098|when publishing and phab:T275207|when cancelling a selected article, and ensuring phab:T284722|links opening in new windows work and are indicated properly.
 * More reliable support phab:T283513|for identifying sentences when editing a translation and phab:T281739|for sections when publishing to avoid errors.
 * Improved instrumentation by phab:T281982|configuring the event platform and phab:T263438|include necessary metadata.
 * Better mapping of templates with phab:T286473|the generation of parameter alignments for more languages and phab:T267869|specific fixes for Odia.
 * Expanded machine translation support with the configuration of Elia phab:T284900|to support more languages and phab:T288272|fix problems with specific language pairs]], and phab:T274640|updates to Apertium packages.
 * More predictable behaviour for Content Translation by phab:T279525|avoiding issues when keeping a translation service as default, phab:T285860|avoiding unintended scroll jumps, phab:T261189|delivering notifications for deleted old drafts, and phab:T285219|fixing server issues and phab:T256357|timeouts.

ym|2021|07

 * phab:T282415|Communications with wikipedias with higher than usual deletion rates for translations, including phab:T282425|top users and phab:T282431|admins.
 * phab:T267103|Update the used Mediawiki skin to follow more standard practices.
 * Investigation of phab:T256357|timeout errors with machine translation.

ym|2021|06

 * Section Translation now makes phab:T279066|basic suggestions with more relevant sections as identified by user research.
 * As part of the "new translation" entry point, phab:T276221|when an article is selected to translate (either through search, suggestions, or an external link) a confirmation step is shown.

ym|2021|05

 * Language phab:T278313|undo tooltip now works on pages without language settings element and does not cause a JavaScript error.
 * phab:T274773|Reviewed unminified Webpack-generated code for Section Translation and reported any security issues.
 * Updated phab:T271679|Apertium language pairs in Debian.
 * Created a phab:T267102|custom skin for Content Translation special pages, we created a new skin named 'contenttranslation' to use CX Special pages.; It is now used with the section translation variant.
 * phab:T263139|Section Translation no longer defaults to adding new sections to the end of the article it now uses smart default placement of new sections to improve mobile users’ experiences.
 * phab:T260164|Updated the Suggestions List on the translation dashboard to ensure that translation states are properly represented.
 * As part of the "new translation" entry point from the Translation Dashboard, phab:T260141|users can search for articles to start a translation of a section.
 * Using Machine Translation, phab:T283815|Section Translation will have pre-filled frequent section titles in the section mapping database.

ym|2021|04

 * Enabled the phab:T276765|Content Translation as a default tool in Uzbec, Amharic, and Maltese Wikipedias.
 * Content translation provides users with suggestions of articles to translate; Based on user feedback, it would be useful to phab:T229242|provide some general control about the knowledge area these suggestions are about.
 * phab:T207662|Corrected an error that caused Machine Translation (MT) processing issues.
 * phab:T271576|Completed user testing of Section Translation shortly after it was deployed to the first Wiki.

ym|2021|03

 * Enabled phab:T275596|SectionTranslation in testwiki.
 * Created and revised a phab:T271750|research plan and brief for Section Translation Entry Points using feedback from Language Team.
 * phab:T271580|Recruited research participants from the first wiki that Section Translation is deployed to, Bengali, and scheduled research sessions.
 * phab:T271581|Conducted Section Translation research sessions.
 * phab:T274118|Suggestions are now showing properly after changing the language pair in Section Translation.
 * phab:T273364|Resolved ‘undefined index’ error that appeared for some users of the Section Translation tool.
 * phab:T247585|Update Apertium to 3.7 release from upstream.
 * phab:T273050|Simplified the Section Translation quick tutorial based on research findings to make the order of the steps more intuitive and text shorter so it’s easier for users to read.
 * Updated the “suggest” API and app so that phab:T274825|users only see 5 suggested articles, making the feature more accessible to users with slow phones.
 * phab:T275593|Updated the Special:CX menu so that each menu item appears on a separate line.
 * phab:T239699|Explored ideas for Section Translation entry points: opportunistic (users find opportunities as they navigate content), persistent (stable entry points users can always find), and proactive (the system invites users to translate in response to previous actions).

ym|2021|02

 * Created, revised, and tested phab:T271579|protocols for Section Translation research on the first wiki.
 * phab:T270691|Temporally hid parts of the Section Translation dashboard that are not yet supported on mobile so that users can only see fully functional parts of the workflow.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step, phab:T269415|users are expected to see only one selected sentence at a time, which can be highlighted in either yellow (if it has not been translated) or blue (if it was translated already).
 * Corrected code errors that phab:T272542|caused Section Translation dashboard recommendations to not appear and the loading gif to remain indefinitely.
 * Based on UX Writer input, "Proposed translation from MT service will be changed to phab:T273053|"Suggested translation from MT service on the Section Translation too nowikil.
 * After successfully publishing the translation contents, phab:T272584|users will no longer see a warning about leaving an in-progress translation to avoid confusion.
 * When the user applies a proposed translation, phab:T272583|the text should be black to allow users to distinguish it from the untranslated content (gray text).
 * Bengali Wikipedia editors participated in https://design.wikimedia.org/strategy/section-translation.html previous research about Section Translation with positive results, and we want to enable an initial version of the tool in their wiki. This will allow users to experience how the tool works in a realistic environment without the limitations https://sx.wmflabs.org/index.php/Main_Page of the test instance and provide early feedback.
 * Uzoma (our CRS) helped us make phab:T271097|our announcement to the Bengali Wikipedia we are monitoring the relevant talk pages for feedback.
 * Investigated phab:T274147|how easy it would be to add Microsoft Translator API support in cxserver.
 * Users selecting a suggestion to translate may decide to go with a different one instead (e.g., after seeing the sections available to translate). phab:T274125|It is now possible to return to the dashboard.
 * We plan to enable the Section Translation tool in one wiki to learn from its use with real content. Since the tool was designed to select any target language, users may be able to select a different language to publish their translation on. We investigated phab:T273274|what happens when someone selects a different language to publish in order to avoid problematic situations.
 * Corrected when the user is in the "pick a sentence step" and selects a sentence to translate, phab:T273271|clicking on an image no longer causes the browser to navigate away from the page.
 * Fixed bug that phab:T244114|caused translations to not be published even after the user clicks the publish button.
 * phab:T271397|Deployed Section Translation on the Bengali Wikipedia on 22 February 2021!
 * phab:T275121|Adjusted the threshold for Vietnamese to prevent publishing when overall unmodified content is higher than 90%.
 * phab:T275385|Verified that MT is available in production for Section Translation.
 * Enabled phab:T271397|Section Translation on Bengali Wikipedia.
 * As part of the "Show follow-up options after publishing" step of the Section Translation workflow, phab:T260137|users now get an invite to translate another section when they get confirmation that their most recent translation was published.
 * As part of the "Show follow-up options after publishing" step of the Section Translation workflow, phab:T260136|users now get an invite to translate another section as they get confirmation that their most recent translation was published.
 * As part of the "Preview and publish" step of the mobile editor for Section Translation, phab:T260130|users can preview their translation contents before publishing them.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step (T251551) of the Section Translation mobile editor, phab:T260128|users can select sentences that have been already translated to see information on the translation and an option to edit it.

ym|2021|1

 * After the publication of a Translatable modules|proposal for translatable modules, we evaluated the implementation efforts required and developed a Translatable modules/Technical implementation|plan.
 * Sent recruitment messages and communicated with possible participants to try to phab:T268029|identify additional test users who match criteria our criteria (general level of experience with CX, language pairs supported by Apertium, openness to testing on mobile).


 * phab:T250619|In order to analyze and visualize the Content Translation funnel, we collected the events that make up the funnel in collaboration with our Product Analyst.
 * Analyzed phab:T268030|feedback from test users and prepared then presented the report to the Language team.
 * Enabled phab:T271204|Content Translation in the Tsonga (ts) Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Requested a phab:T269875|campaign tag for Wikidocumentaries in Content Translation so that the link would work by bypassing default settings.
 * Fixed an error that caused phab:T234220|link and template adaptation to fail sometimes (which prevented translating a given section).
 * phab:T271578|Created a research plan and research brief for Section Translation’s first wiki Also gathered feedback from Language Team and revised the plan accordingly.
 * Set user expectations by phab:T270501|indicating that Section Translation mobile support is still experimental via a notice at the top of the translation dashboard on mobile.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step of the Section Translation mobile editor, phab:T263146|an option to select alternative machine translation (MT) options is provided.
 * Based on the input from the technical exploration, phab:T235186|we explored design options to find a way for users to select a specific topic area to filter the suggestions.

ym|2020|12

 * phab:T269162|Updated the Wikipedia logo on the Section Translation testing server so that it is accurate.


 * phab:T267212|Enabled content translation in Breton (br) Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Corrected OpusMT errors that caused users to be phab:T268958|unable to translate from english to Central Bikol.
 * Since Content Translation can now user Parsoid directly, phab:T266213|other tools have been deprecated.
 * In Section Translation, phab:T267308|VE is now preloaded which reduces delays]] for the user during translation editing.
 * [[phab:T266220|Enabled Content Translation in Igbo (ig) Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * phab:T266219|Enabled Content Translation in Sinhalese (si) Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * phab:T266218|Enabled Content Translation in Asturian (ast) Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * phab:T266217|Enabled Content Translation in Georgian (ka) Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Improved phab:T262253|MT support for Central Bikol by implementing the use of OpusMT.
 * Analyzed data and prepared a phab:T255272|report on Multilingual Editors Experiences with Reporting.
 * As part of the Multilingual Editors Experience research, phab:T255274|journey maps and small wiki personas were drafted.
 * Added phab:T264855|validation for invalid titles in notifications, creating a workaround that logs errors.

ym|2020|11

 * phab:T265120|Increased standard font sizes from 16 pt to 18 pt for Mobile VE in Section Translation.
 * phab:T263093|Created a responsive and mobile-friendly custom skin for Content Translation special pages.
 * Fixed mobile screen height so that to phab:T262665|he skip tutorial button is visible for all users.
 * As part of the "Preview and publish" step of the mobile editor for Section Translation, phab:T260132|users can now publish their translation contents after previewing them.
 * As part of the "Compare the contents before translating" step of the Section Translation workflow, phab:T259496|a sticky header lets the user scroll through the contents while the options to switch between source and target are visible.
 * Corrected code error that prevented a phab:T265523|not logged in user from viewing some Translation stats pages.
 * Created the phab:T263741|Section Translation test server feedback collection tool which includes messaging and guidance for participants as well as multiple feedback mechanisms.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step of the Section Translation mobile editor, phab:T265220|translators can now also translate the section titles within an article.
 * phab:T262509|Language team’s OpusMT cloud instance was updated to the newest version.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step of the Section Translation mobile editor, a card is now shown at the phab:T259502|bottom of the viewport with the proposed Machine Translation.
 * An error associated with phab:T264909|changing the target language of a translation was rectified.

ym|2020|10

 * As part of the "Edit a sentence" step for Section Translation,  phab:T259506|translations will be loaded using the Mobile Visual Editor.
 * phab:T255195|Analyzed roughly 45hrs of videos and transcripts from 21 different research sessions as part of Multilingual Editor Experiences in Small Wikis research.
 * As part of the "Edit a sentence" step for Section Translation, phab:T259507|users will now be able to see the original sentence above the visual editor with options to paginate and expand.
 * phab:T252678|Investigated cases where translations present unusually high deletion ratios or confusing machine translation (MT) statuses in order to understand usage and needs surrounding MT services and the content translation tool.
 * As part of the "Edit a sentence" step for Section Translation, phab:T259506|a translation will be loaded with the Mobile Visual Editor, allowing users to edit contents in the usual way and leave the editor.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step for Section Translation, u phab:T259500|sers will be able to choose a sentence to edit.
 * As part of the "Edit a sentence" step for Section Translation, phab:T259507|users will have access to the original sentence as they edit that sentence’s translation.
 * phab:T264161|Adjusted the threshold for Vietnamese to prevent publishing when overall unmodified content is higher than 95% based on community feedback.
 * Corrected a phab:T263717|language-data error that led to Compact Language Links not showing the Chavacano language as an option.
 * Corrected errors that caused phab:T263718|"Section already present banner" to show up momentarily when the screen loads.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step of the Section Translation mobile editor, phab:T260129|users can interact with sentences by tapping on them and getting feedback.
 * phab:T265451|Enabled Central Bikol in OpusMT labs instance to allow editors to check when we inform the community.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T264741|Oriya Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T264740|Somali Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T264739|Irish Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T264738|Belarusian Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T264737|Esperanto Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * phab:T264407|Checked Apertium configuration for Serbo-croatian support and moved forward by enabling Google the machine translation default instead.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step of the Section Translation mobile editor, phab:T263940|the selected sentence can be highlighted.
 * Completed the phab:T263739|Section Translation test server user feedback plan.
 * phab:T259998|Analyzed videos and transcripts for Multilingual Ed X research sessions - potential editors.
 * Any project using phab:T259027|GitLab can now opt-in to receive translation updates via Merge Requests.

ym|2020|9

 * phab:T249458|Fixed an issue where Content Translation fails to add translated pages sitelinks to wikidata.
 * Researched and drafted brief for the phab:T256344|Machine Translation and Human Interaction project.
 * A Content translation/Machine Translation/Configuration|document cataloging all the phab:T259582|Machine Translation configuration options was created to make it easier on our users.
 * phab:T241712|Visual Editor integration to the section translation project is ongoing after initial exploration.
 * phab:T260557|Ladin (lldwiki) language wikipedia was added to cxserver.
 * phab:T255271|Scheduled and prepped executive summary discussions with the Language team as part of the Multilingual Editors Experience.
 * Fixed a bug phab:T261557|where adding categories was not possible when using the Content Translation tool.
 * Fixed a phab:T263118|UI glitch when users used the “compare contents” option in Content Translation.
 * Completed the “Compare” step of the Section Translation workflow, phab:T260126|allowing users to access the selected source section and the article in the target language.
 * phab:T259604|Identified the steps/blockers needed to support test automation using Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure for Section Translation.
 * Completed the workflow step for Section Translation that phab:T259503|supports alternative machine translation selection options.
 * Completed the workflow step for Section Translation that phab:T259492|allows a translator to see a placeholder where their new translation will be in the existing article.
 * Resolved errors that phab:T259016|caused cropped text instances.
 * A phab:T258792|detailed specification document to facilitate discussing Translatable Modules was written and Translatable modules|published on MediaWiki.
 * Corrected errors that led to phab:T255669|post-save operations for translation units failing on occasion.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T260024|Urdu Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T260022|Welsh Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Enabled Content Translation in phab:T258504|Bashkir Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * phab:T263417|Excluded testwikis and private wikis from ContentTranslation (CX) draft purge script and separated the CX database on testwiki.
 * As part of the "Compare the contents before translating" step, phab:T259497|added support for opening articles was completed.
 * As part of the "Pick a sentence" step of the Section Translation mobile editor, section contents will now display so that phab:T259499|users can navigate on a sentence-by-sentence basis.

ym|2020|8

 * Investigated phab:T259603|how to best apply QA practices to Section Translation as it uses a new vue.js-based architecture.
 * phab:T258919|Enabled Machine Translation for closely-related languages based on community input.
 * Enabled phab:T258502|Content Translation in Sundanese Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * Corrected phab:T213273|errors that caused Cx2 to add unnecessary id attributes to elements that do not need them, such as numeric id values to tables.


 * Corrected phab:T256534|code that lead to a syntax error while using Content Translation.
 * phab:T253307|Recruitment for Multilingual Editors Experience research was completed.
 * As part of Phase 3 of Multilingual Ed X, phab:T255194|many research sessions with new/potential editors were scheduled and completed.
 * As part of Phase 3 of Multilingual Ed X, phab:T255193|many research sessions with existing editors were scheduled and completed.
 * Corrected phab:T259698|code errors that lead to a Content Translation publishing failure in certain cases.
 * phab:T256194|Provided section order information in the section suggestions API for Section Translation.
 * Updated phab:T202443|Content Translation highlight colors to be appropriate for the background colors.
 * phab:T199523|Machine Translation services supporting Chinese Mandarin were opened to closely related languages and variants to improve the users’ experience using Content Translation.
 * phab:tag/sectiontranslation/|All steps until the editor are completed as Content translation/Section translation| Section Translation development continues.
 * Google Translate is now the phab:T259980|default machine translation for Ukrainian.
 * Content Translation is now a phab:T258505|default tool in the Assamese Wikipedia.
 * Content Translation is now a phab:T258503|default tool in the Burmese Wikipedia.

ym|2020|7

 * Confirmed resolution of a phab:T235530|console error that caused some issues when loading the Content Translation page.
 * Corrected phab:T199183|errors on Youdao MT that caused machine translation failure.
 * phab:T247499|Completed building the UI framework to support the Content Translation dashboard and Section Translation workflows.
 * Created the API that iphab:T243430|dentifies the missing sections between articles in different languages, a necessary component for Section Translation.
 * phab:T242613|Resolved issues with user-added categories being ignored in development environments of Content Translation.
 * phab:T255196|Completed the debrief guides for moderators to complete after each research session.
 * Revised some code so that phab:T251541|Content Translation produces less log spam.
 * phab:T255331|Users are able to change their interface language again when using Content Translation after resolving code errors.
 * Research sessions have started for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iTxIoaK8RoRDARkq0n4-9hFj6MAPZPR1l8n1KRRrmiw/edit#heading=h.qvrj7wr6jqrh Multilingual Editors Experience project, 7 sessions completed this week. Ongoing recruitment tasks completed.

ym|2020|6

 * Completed a phab:T252629|review process for the main tickets for Section Translation, reporting  missing/unclear aspects that need to be better detailed in order to make the development process more efficient.
 * Context Translation is now in out of beta for the phab:T250355|Galician Wikipedia.
 * Corrected default display setting so that phab:T246598|article images in Content Translation dashboard are not blurred anymore.
 * phab:T246317|Improved Content Translation's automatic template parameter mapping across languages in small Wikipedias by altering template parameters.
 * Content Translation is enabled for the newly created phab:T252871|Awadhi Wikipedia.
 * Corrected the issue causing phab:T252502|Content Translation’s beta feature to not always be automatically enabled when starting a new translation.
 * phab:T235850|Re-aligned UI elements so that the Content Translation dashboard displays correctly.
 * Researched and wrote a phab:T247757|research brief for Multilingual Editor Experiences to help inform the Design and Development teams decisions
 * A paper co-authored by Santhosh Thottingal and Jorg Tiedemann (Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki) titled OPUS-MT –Building open translation services for the World was accepted for https://eamt2020.inesc-id.pt/ 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation and the https://eamt2020.inesc-id.pt/proceedings-eamt2020.pdf proceedings are published (See page 479-480). It outlines the project and collaboration between WMF and University of Helsinki.
 * Created research protocol for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iTxIoaK8RoRDARkq0n4-9hFj6MAPZPR1l8n1KRRrmiw/edit#heading=h.qvrj7wr6jqrh phase 3 of our  Multilingual Editor Experiences in Small Wikis research project.


 * Resolved an issue with Content Translation that phab:T254965|caused the console to not display certain types of errors.
 * Set the phab:T255258|dropdown list from select component to be empty by default, improving the user experience.
 * phab:T254959|Restored Machine Translation to the Content Translation master server after a release caused it to malfunction.
 * Created a phab:T253305|URL campaign for African languages for a COVID-19 translation project.
 * Content Translation hphab:T252094|andled an edge case where a known user was trying to translate a page which was already being translated by an unknown user.
 * phab:T246319|Enabled Google Translate support in Content Translation for Kinyarwanda, Odia, Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur.
 * Adjusted how Content Translation phab:T232718|manages machine translation warnings with regards to mathematical equations.

ym|2020|5

 * Enabled phab:T249229|Content Translation in Armenian Wikipedia as a default tool.
 * phab:T229405|Content Translation was tested on multiple servers to verify how it functions out-of-beta.
 * Adjusted the threshold for phab:T246383|machine translation (MT) content for the Chinese Wikipedia to prevent publishing when overall unmodified MT content is higher than 70% at community request.
 * Ephab:T249852|nabled Google Translate support in Content Translation for the following languages: Amharic, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Scots Gaelic, and Xhosa.
 * Added the phab:T250004|Sakha language to Content Translation’s list of Machine Translation supported languages through Yandex Translation
 * Updated the phab:T223958|CX abuse filter statistics script from MySQL to Hive
 * phab:T252371|Reverted machine translation limits for the Chinese Wikipedia as a response to the community’s feedback.
 * Completed dphab:T249202|esign specifications for Section Translation and its features.
 * Adjusted the phab:T252786|machine translation threshold for Chinese Wikipedia to be 5% more strict based on community feedback.
 * phab:T247245|Tested a neural machine translation service, MarianNMT, to evaluate its its hosting requirements and performance on our systems.

ym|2020|4

 * Content translation enabled by default phab:T248179|for Lithuanian.
 * Improved testing environment by fixing phab:T248150|an issue that resulted in a corrupt repository.
 * More reliable section mapping in Section translation by phab:T248578|preventing API errors.
 * More reliable publishing of translations by phab:T248302|preventing that broken categories stop the whole process.
 * Content translation enabled by default phab:T248836|for Slovenian Wikipedia
 * Better support for translating in multiple sessions by phab:T249400|restoring access to unfinished translations
 * Updated the default machine translation tool to phab:T249469|Google Translate for the Chinese Wikipedia at community request
 * Expanded monthly reports to include a phab:T112371|more convenient way to monitor changes in Content Translation use by language
 * Complete phab:T99230|design research report on section translation to validate the concept and design ideas
 * Completed a phab:T245531|full design research analysis on Section Translation Sessions with Bengali, Javanese and Indonesian editors to help improve user experience
 * Investigated the phab:T249458|cause of some missing interlanguage links for articles translated using Content Translation.
 * Improved monthly content translation analytics support by fphab:T225620|ixing errors that lead to incorrect change tags when articles are not published.

ym|2020|3

 * Improved consistency by fixing phab:T243286|a regression that affected the visual styles of Content Translation.
 * Support for community events related to translation by creating phab:T246335|a url campaign for WikiGap to provide visibility to the translations created through it, and phab:T243539|a survey to get the impressions about Content Translation of participants of events (to be initially applied on metawiki:Syberthon_2020|editathon on cybersecurity in India.
 * Completed phab:T242150|the analysis for second round of research on Section Translation phab:T238676|with Bengali Wikipedia editors, and phab:T244400|conducted research sessions for the next round phab:T240595|with Javanese editors. This completes phab:T238508|the sessions planned for this study, being pending only the final analysis and results.
 * Improved template support by phab:T227183|generating mappings for template parameters for our target languages using https://github.com/digitalTranshumant/templatesAlignment/tree/master a machine learning approach.
 * Improved discovery with phab:T237607|better detection of newcomers to show an invitation to translate.
 * Started the process to evaluate improving performance of OpusMT by phab:T247246|geting access to a server for performance measurements.
 * Content translation enabled by default for phab:T246629|Estonian, phab:T246628|Azerbaijani, and phab:T246622|Malay.
 * Published c:File:Section_Translation_Entry_Points_Design.pdf|initial design ideas for Section translation entry points as part of the phab:T239699|design exploration.

ym|2020|2

 * Content translation enabled by default for phab:T243271|Telugu, phab:T243272|Kannada, phab:T243273|Gujarati, phab:T243274|Marathi, and phab:T243275|Punjabi.
 * phab:T242006|Technical exploration for the architecture to support Section Translation development (both on desktop and mobile) following the recommendations of Frontend Architecture Working Group|the Frontend Architecture Working Group.
 * Better support for the Chuvash language by phab:T244230|enabling machine translation support.
 * Content translation enabled by default for phab:T244139|Bosnian and phab:T244140|Macedonian]].
 * Improvements in template support by phab:T242187|setting-up a server instance to generate the mappings for template parameters following the computationally-intensive machine learning approach.
 * phab:T234194|Integrated for the first time a translation service that is both open source and based on :en:Neural_machine_translation|Neural Machine Translation in Content Translation (OpusMT). OpusMT has been enabled for Assamese to experiment how community translations could help bootstrap an open machine translation service :as:ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৰাইজৰ_চ'ৰা_(কাৰিকৰী)#Proposal_to_enable_an_experimental_open_source_machine_translation_system_for_Assamese|announcement and feedback.
 * Translation limits in Content Translation have been phab:T245509|adjusted for Assamese to prevent low quality translations, given the experimental nature of the OpusMT translation service used for the language.
 * Translation limits in Content Translation phab:T244769|have been adjusted for Telugu based on :te:వికీపీడియా:రచ్చబండ#Improving_the_translation_support_for_Telugu|feedback from the community and the measurement of the current deletion ratios.
 * Content translation enabled by default for phab:T245448|Basque]], phab:T245447|Tamil, and phab:T245446|Swahili.

ym|2020|1

 * Improved support for references by phab:T233405|preventing duplicate references in the source article.
 * Update of testing servers phab:T236662|to support the new parsing system.
 * Content translation enabled by default for phab:T242011|Afrikaans, phab:T242012|Icelandic, phab:T242014|Latvian, and phab:T242016|Nepali Wikipedias.

ym|2019|12

 * phab:T233297|Updated test server instances with recent technology versions as required by recent MediaWiki updates.
 * Enabled server support for Content translation in two new Wikipedias: phab:T237379|Sakizaya (szy) and phab:T235748|Mon (mnw) Wikipedias.
 * Support for the metawiki:WikiForHumanRights|Wiki for Human Rights initiative by creating phab:T239977|a URL campaign in Content translation.
 * More reliable support for phab:T236906|highlighting sentences across original and translated content and phab:T217585|preventing wrongly formatted duplicates of ISBN links.
 * Support for phab:T229075|compatibility with the new version of the parsing system.
 * Content translation configured to be phab:T234318|enabled as a default tool (out of beta) for newly created Wikipedias

ym|2019|11

 * Content translation enabled by default phab:T236064|for Albanian Wikipedia after editors request.
 * Better integrated phab:T232372|invites for users to translate when creating a new article, showing a specific article to translate or a one-time general invite depending on the context.
 * phab:T229324|Compilation of prolific translators]] in selected wikis to raise awareness of our initiatives and plan further research.
 * Infrastructure to phab:T237354|set up a local instance of Oups MT based on Marian Neural Machine Translation.
 * Section translation research preparations: phab:T237137|research brief, phab:T237329|test protocol, and recruitment communications (participant screener, phab:T237316|community messages, and phab:T237311|direct messages)

ym|2019|10

 * Initial phab:T225301|design ideas and prototypes for section translation.
 * phab:T225300|Started conversations with all selected communities (Malayalam, Bengali, Tagalog, Javanese, and Mongolian) with potential to grow with translation.
 * Improved discoverability by basic support for phab:T216500|surfacing specific translation suggestion as an alternative to create an article from scratch.
 * Content translation enabled by default for phab:T233006|Tagalog, phab:T233007|Central Bikol, phab:T233008|Malayalam, phab:T233009|Bengali, and phab:T234317|Mongolian Wikipedias.
 * Better guidance by phab:T89707|encouraging to complete old translations with a notification after 3 months.
 * Expand machine translation by phab:T232986|allowing external tools to use all language pairs even if restricted by their Wikipedia communities.

ym|2019|9

 * Content translation phab:T231207|enabled by default for Javanese Wikipedia :jv:Wikipedia:Angkringan#Ngapiki_panjurung_pertalan_tumrap_Wikip%C3%A9dia_Jawa|announcement
 * Clearer entry points by phab:T230362|removing redundant invite to translate.
 * Improved entry points with phab:T224880|more reliable placement for the interlanguage links dialog and phab:T230230|reduced performance penalty for readers.

ym|2019|8

 * Improved discoverability by providing phab:T216032|an updated invite to propose translating instead of creating an article from scratch, phab:T229419|avoid unnecessary steps when searching for the article to translate, and phab:T228390|surfacing the persistent entry points in a more reliable way using global preferences.
 * Improved suggestions by phab:T115458|surfacing suggestions as the default view when users are not working on any translation already, phab:T121219|making it possible to link to any specific view in the dashboard, providing smarter services to phab:T227571|find potential source articles for a given title in another language and phab:T223888|potential translators, and phab:T178790|use a more clear visual metaphor to keep suggestions for later.
 * Better control for users to keep suggestions for later by phab:T194476|keeping the "for later" list visible for all languages.
 * Exposing better content gaps by phab:T230200|showing the suggestions view by default when the user has no in-progress translations.

ym|2019|7

 * Better support for exposing the tool as default by phab:T223896|supporting settings to disable the entry points for wikis where the tool is out of beta.
 * Better guidance for users by phab:T216498|showing an invite to try the main entry point to those users that discovered the tool through a non-persistent invite so that they learn how to find the tool the next time.