Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2015/May

Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team

Content Translation
Summary of WMF Language Engineering

Development Update

 * Reference tool card can copy a reference to source even if the tranlation is from scratch
 * Proper handling of wikis with different content language code and domain name code.
 * Many RTL fixes to get the tool ready for RTL wiki deployments
 * Links system is getting rewritten to meet upcoming complex usecases
 * Improvements to translation source selector. A page selector widget was developed to do prefix search with results listed with thumbnail images and brief description
 * One click beta feature enablement campaigns at new article creation workfows - both with wikitext and VE based article creation points.
 * Entry points for beta feature users - contributions menu, contribution page links, article creation, interlanguage links
 * Stats page getting new design since number of languages are too big to represent in table
 * Switched to RESTBase to fetch HTML pages. Publishing api switched to use ParsoidVirtualRESTService
 * Automatic linking of source and target articles in wikidata when translation published is coming.
 * Echo integration to notify translators on milestones and various other events are in progress
 * CXServer logging improved to log to logstash
 * Continuing collaboration with Apertium, more apertium language pairs are packaged and enabled in WMF apertium instance
 * Niklas, Santhosh and Pau wrote a paper on Machine aided translation system for wikipedia, which was selected for European Association of Machine Translation conference. They presented it at Antalya, Turkey.