Wikimedia Language engineering/Newsletter/2023/October/ja

Welcome to the first edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter by the Language team!

This newsletter provides you with quarterly updates on new feature development, improvements in various and support work, community meetings, and ideas to get involved in contributing to the projects.

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Machine translation (MinT) available for 202 language Wikipedias
, a new machine translation service launched in June 2023 that supports several underserved languages, is now available for 202 language Wikipedias. This is a big deal because for some of these languages, it's the first time they have a machine translation tool. It's going to make the quality of translations much better. Some people in these communities have even said that translations with MinT are better than those from Google Translate and suggested setting it as their default translation tool.

[https://translate.wmcloud.org/ ''' Try MinT here. ''']

Over 67,000 translations were made across all Wikipedias in last quarter
In the last quarter (July–September 2023), the Content Translation tool recorded over 67,000 translations across all Wikipedias, with the highest number of translations occurring on Spanish language. The Content Translation tool has achieved 1.83 million translations since its launch. On the other hand, the section translation feature on Korean Wikipedia saw 471 translations in July, which is a significant increase compared to the initial months after its launch in May 2022, when there were less than 50 translations per month. This demonstrates the varying levels of activity and the time needed for feature adoption.

Enhancements to language tools: parsoid integration, service updates and more
can now directly communicate with without making network API requests. Parsoid is a service that changes how Wikipedia's language (Wikitext) looks into a more common web language (HTML) and the other way around. This change is intended to make translating content faster.

and tools also now have better support for translating content - the ability to restore drafts of translations in different web browser sessions, a progress bar to communicate the amount of content translated, continue translations from a different language, etc.

system used a machine translation service called for a long time. It is now being discontinued as hardly anyone was using it, and other similar services are available. This will help save time and effort in maintaining it. However, other are still available for the same languages.

A new version of the, a curated set of MediaWiki extensions offering multilingual features, was released. For a complete list of updates made to these extensions, see the.

Insights from a user study on translatable pages
Translatable pages, a MediaWiki feature, allows editors to mark wiki pages so they can be translated into different languages. You can also create new wiki pages in various languages using this feature. But here's the thing: it's a bit tricky to use, and it's mainly designed for advanced users who really know their way around the system.

The Translate extension is wonderful and with all its flaws, I still love it

Recently, design researchers in the Language team conducted a study to find out what problems people face when they try to use this feature. The metric they were interested in was how to increase the number of people who are successful at creating and updating translatable pages, and improving ease for those with less technical knowledge. You can find a summary of what they discovered in this research report.

Our highest good is making sure that weʼre making really good use of translatorsʼ time.



マレーシアの先住民族語1件の話者を支援
サマ・バジャウ諸語というマレーシアの先住民族言語に対して技術的サポートをメディアウィキに追加したばかりです. これによりこの言語の話者の皆さんは、ウィキメディアのさまざまなウェブサイト※で記事ページならびにソフトウェアを、母語に翻訳できるようになりました. （"※"：訳注＝プロジェクト群）



コミュニティの会合とイベント

 * 初の言語コミュニティの会合を2023年11月17日（金曜）16:00–17:00（UTC）に設定しました. 出席希望の皆さんはリンクを押して事前登録してください.
 * Santhosh さんが第10回アジア翻訳ワークショップ※で講演しました. 内容は、どのようにして全ての人が無料で、多言語で機械翻訳を使えるようにするべきかというものでした. （"※"：the 10th Workshop on Asian Translation. ）



ご参加ください

 * 技術系のタスクをお探しの場合は、さまざまなウィキメディアPhabricatorの言語プロジェクトのリポジトリ類を開き、まだ誰も担当に名乗り出ていないが簡易なタスクを探してはいかがでしょうか.
 * 記事ページ、インタフェースのメッセージ文の編集や翻訳に使うツールをお探しの場合は、Translatewiki.netでコンテンツ翻訳拡張機能※ならびにSpecial:Translate|翻訳ツールをお使いください. これらのツールは他言語版のコンテンツを扱う作業に役立つよう意図されたものです. （"※"：訳注＝この拡張機能は日本語版では無効化中. ）
 * フィードバックは言語ツールのトークページに投稿してください.

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