Content translation/Announcements/Announcement-October2014

We are pleased to announce the new version of the Content Translation tool with Spanish-to-Catalan, Catalan-to-Spanish, Spanish-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-Spanish translation support.

The Content Translation tool, developed by the Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation, is particularly useful for multilingual editors who can create new articles from corresponding articles in another language. The tool features a minimal rich-text editor with translation tools like dictionaries and machine translation support. The first version of the tool was released for beta-testers in July 2014 and the second version has been released for beta-testers on 30th September 2014.

Some of the features included in this version originated from feedback received from the community, either during usability testing sessions, or as comments and suggestions from our initial users. Editors from the Catalan Wikipedia provided constant feedback after the first release of the tool and also during the recent roundtable.

Highlights from this version

 * Bi-directional machine translation support for Spanish-Portuguese
 * Paragraph alignment improvements (needs some details)
 * More accurate detection for use of Machine Translation suggestions without corrections with warnings shown to the user
 * Experimental text formatting with a simple toolbar in the Chrome browser.
 * In Firefox the support is limited only to keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-B for bold, Ctrl-I for italics).
 * Redesigned top bar and progress bar.
 * Numerous bug fixes.

Please refer to the release plan to know more about the complete list of features for this version.

Next Release
The next release of the tool is scheduled for November 18, 2014.

Availability of this version
This version of Content Translation has not been deployed on beta labs due to technical difficulties in the deployment environment. However, users can continue to use the earlier version of the tool at: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation. Please follow the instructions to create and publish a new article. We will update the information in this section when the new version is available on beta labs.

Feedback and Participation
Please provide your feedback at the project talk page. You can also volunteer for our testing sessions.