Thread:Talk:Content translation/Machine translation

From the page I don't understand: is machine translation a big part of this project, or just something that happens to be integrated in it like many other translation aids in the Translate extension, so that we need to keep an eye on it ("Warn automatic translation abusers" is the only mention of specific machine translation features)? If it's somehow important, how does it relate to previous experiences, for which we're compiling a list of links at Machine translation?