Content translation/status

Last update on: 2014-03-monthly

2013-07-01
Project started.

2014-01-monthly
The language engineering team kicked off development of a prototype version of context translation workflow. This functionality aims to create a workspace for helping editors bootstrap new articles in non-Latin language Wikipedias. In the prototype, Russian and Welsh are being used for initial concept verification.

2014-02-monthly
The prototype ContentTranslation server was created in Node.js, mostly by Santhosh Thottingal and David Chan. The server will be responsible for syncing the translations between all the languages, storing translated parallel texts (using Redis) and retrieving caching the results of language tools queries (machine translation, translation memory, dictionaries, segmentation, etc.).

Some front-end components for the translation interface were made, mostly by Sucheta Goshal and Amir Aharoni.

2014-03-monthly
David Chan and Sathosh Thottingal worked on segmentation of the translated text. This now works, and can support English and other languages. They are also working on basic side-by-side translation editing is working as well and on infrastructure for comprehensive testing the ContentTranslation server. Pau Giner updated the designs for ContentTranslation UI.