Content translation/Section translation

Content translation's Boost initiative is aimed at expanding the use of translation to help more communities to grow. By enabling new and more visible ways to contribute by using translation, we expect communities to attract new editors, and expand the knowledge available in their language.

Content translation has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities. It has already helped to create thousands of new articles while encouraging the creation of good quality translations. However, we identified potential for expanding its use to more contexts that can benefit from translation:


 * The adoption of Content translation varies significantly from wiki to wiki, and there are wikis with potential to benefit from using translation more.
 * Currently Content translation focuses on creating new articles on desktop. Supporting new kinds of contribution such as expanding existing articles or mobile translation would provide more opportunities to contribute.

This initiative is aligned with the Wikimedia Foundation plans to "Grow participation globally, focusing on emerging markets" and increasing "Worldwide readership". More details and updates are provided below.

Scope and impact
We want knowledge to propagate across languages more fluently.

These are the work areas defined:


 * Make Content translation more visible. This involves making the tool available by default, expose the tool more visibly at relevant places, surface relevant content gaps, and customize the process to meet the needs of the community. In this way, more editors will be able to find relevant content to translate.
 * Increase the coverage of content for existing articles. Explore ideas to expand existing articles by translating new sections. This will enable users to expand existing articles with new aspects to cover the topic in more detail.
 * Support translation on more devices. Support translation from mobile devices to provide more opportunities for contribution on any device, enabling new editors to participate.

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

Given the above, we initially selected the following target Wikipedias: Malayalam, Bengali, Tagalog, Javanese, and Mongolian

Selecting a target Wikipedia means that we'll collaborate closely with those communities and track the impact our changes have in their content creation. We selected a small number to focus on for practical reasons, but we expect the improvements to benefit a larger number of wikis, and users form all wikis are definitely welcome to participate.


 * Better support for exposing the tool as default by supporting settings to disable the entry points for wikis where the tool is out of beta.
 * Better guidance for users by 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.