Translations:Content translation/Machine Translation/Youdao/6/en


 * No personal information is collected by Youdao. The MT system will be accessed via a publicly accessible API key (contents of the linked page are written in Chinese). Article content (freely licensed) is sent to Youdao servers from Wikimedia Foundation servers. No direct communication is happening between the user and external services and no personal information (IP, username) is sent to Youdao’s servers along with the Wikipedia content. The client contacting Youdao servers is open source and you can check it here. No part of Youdao's service or code will be part of Wikimedia infrastructure or Content Translation codebase
 * Information is returned from Youdao still under a free license. When Youdao’s service is used, they provide a translated version of Wikipedia content that maintains its free license. Users can modify it and publish it as part of Wikipedia without conflicts with existing policies. The resulting content translated by Youdao and the user modifications will be available under the same license that is used for the rest of the articles in Wikipedia.
 * Benefits the wider open source translation community. Translations obtained from Youdao and modifications made by users will be publicly available. The post-edited translations are of special interest for the translation research community who can use this resource to create new translation services to support languages for which open source machine translation is not available yet. This will help developers create and improve machine translation systems.
 * Automatic translation is an optional tool in Content Translation. Users have an option to disable it if they don't find it useful for some reason. The preferences allow users to decide whether they would like to use this service, or another available service for their language, or no machine translation services at all.