Talk:Content translation

Please provide feedback about the Content translation tool on this page.

We suggest checking the Frequently Asked Questions page first.

When reporting a bug, it will help a lot if you will indicate the following things:

• Which article were you translating and to which language
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• If you're getting any errors, please provide log from browser console if possible. To open browser console: press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac).

In case you are familiar with Phabricator, please consider reporting a bug there.

See also:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• User manual
• Content translation/V2 - updates about the new version
• Content translation/Section translation
• Highlights of Content Translation software updates (until 2017)

Inability to include an edit summary

Dear developers. Today I was reminded once again why I do not use the Content Translation tool happily. It does not let one save an edit summary while saving the article. How can I participate in a drive that uses a hashtag? I should be able to do this. Frustration. If you fix this, I might come back.--Jetam2 (talk) 17:47, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

The process also reminds me of some of the memes where it says how AI is taking over the work we like doing and we trained for (in this case translation) but does not help us with chores we do not like doing like washing dishes (in this case working with references). The references in the translation were sometimes missing, many times incomplete so I had to spend a considerable amount of time adding, editing and double-checking them. Compare: original, translation before and after.--Jetam2 (talk) 18:26, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Problems in Iban Content Translation

Hi, I notice several problems while trying to do translation using the Content translation tool.

1) References

The references don't show up (or in gray colour) unless you put something on it like a space. Compared to Malay Content Translation, the references just appear automatically (and in blue colour). Several templates, like cite web template don't work even if we link the template to the Wikidata database. During translation, one might need to add in the template manually to fix the issue and it could be so tedious.

2) Template

Some templates don't show up in Iban translation, although the templates exist in both languages. We have to manually edit the template right after the translated article is published, and it is not a convenient process.

3) Autotranslate feature

Even Iban is now in Google Translate, the feature is not enabled yet in Iban language. Although it is not t a major issue, I would appreciate if this feature is enabled.

I hope these matters can be resolved soon to improve the experience of editing using this tool. Song GK (talk) 05:27, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Full translation at once

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll try anyway. What can I do to translate an entire page (from English to Spanish, specifically) at once? Because every time I try to translate a page, I can only do it section by section. I ask this because I often see how other users translate entire pages in one go. Azozoalis (talk) 20:38, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for using the tool, @Azozoalis. Which type of device are you using for translation?

Translating the whole contents of an article is the default when using the tool to create an article on desktop. On mobile, the translation experience is supported by working section by section. For the mobile context with smaller screen sizes, and potential shorter activity spans the use of sections was working better to structure the work.

On desktop when translating an article that already exists, both modes are available as of now. You can expand the existing contents with a new section (recommended), or overwrite the whole article with a new translation (only for cases where overwriting is not causing relevant content loss).

Hope this helps. Pginer-WMF (talk) 16:32, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Problem in publishing translated article

With greetings and respect, I have translated Hamid Mahmoudi's article into Persian, but I encountered a problem when publishing it and it displays the message "Translated by Google", even though I did not translate with Google. I would appreciate it if you could look into it. Thank you.Daniel lorano (talk) 22:24, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

same thing happans to me with other page יוסי 700 (talk) 12:40, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello @יוסי 700 and @Daniel lorano the publishing problem you mentioned, is it related to this reported bug? UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 23:29, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. Alenux1 (talk) 22:47, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Just a general remark: when publishing an article, the default should be "publish on your personal user page" rather than as "new page". You then can go through the page, and specifically the source page, for any errors. Only THEN publish as a Wikipedia page. Joostik (talk) 10:05, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Too many untranslated - all work goes to /dev/null

While I understand the sentiment behind limiting untranslated ratio but right now when the translation is good enough to create a draft on my page (since the visual editor in the translation engine makes extremely annoying and hard to fix formatting errors) it's not possible, and there seem to be no export of the source either, so the whole translation (which contained plenty of work since I had to read everything and fix translation mistakes) is lost (vendor-locked into the visual editor). There are limits of the translation, and the editor is annoying, but doesn't seem to be trivially possible to edit the source. All work lost. Never again. Grin (talk) 11:20, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

You can cheat by artificially lowering the uncorrected ratio by mass search and replace a common word (like a particle), publish to your personal draft page, then mass change them back again. Joostik (talk) 14:37, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Same problem here. I also solved by worsening the automatic translation, save it and rewriting it again. This almost doubles the amount of work. S.vecchiato (talk) 07:14, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

It's crazy. I've just translated an article from catalan to esperanto. apertium doesn't work at all. However I choose Google the tool first provides the unchanged text. I must ask a second time google to get a translation. And when I was finished checking the translation, I can't save my work because "more than 96 % was unchanged". I'm sorry but google works rather well. What can I do? Introducing errors to get out ? --Agloforto (talk) 06:48, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Remove all sources

Could you develop a one-click tool to remove all references? In some language versions, like the NL-Wikipedia, it is considered bad usage to simply copy all refs without reading them personally. Removing them by hand sometimes takes a lot of work, and if you forget any, the remaining references cause this annoying problem of you randomly skipping to the end of the text while working on it, and then having to search for the point where you were working again.

If anyone wants to keep the references they can actually read them (!!!) and put them back in the text.Joostik (talk) 14:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Joostik: Interesting! In sk.wiki, it is increasingly considered bad usage to not include the refs. It is a translation, not editing sources; the sk.author should be just a translator. I doubt anyone would come back to add the refs afterwards.--Jetam2 (talk) 18:29, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Automatic editing filters

I've been trying to publish my translation to portuguese of the article "Boots", about a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Even though I haven't added anything special other than what's on the original article, I can't publish my translation: the error message "Os filtros automáticos de edições identificaram conteúdo problemático na sua tradução. Detalhes: Conteúdo e/ou resumo indevido relacionado ao corpo humano" pops up. This could be roughly translated to "The automatic editing filters identified problematic content in your translation. Details: Improper content and/or summary related to the human body". I have revised the entire article - which isn't very long - and I couldn't find anything that could be considered improper. How can I stop the filter from doing what it's doing? Sbraatzz (talk) 17:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Next button in the course study is not funtioning for me

After I've tried hands on my first translation, when I get back to the course to continue the "next" button is not functioning making it difficult to proceed with the course. Shahadusadik (talk) 08:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

I can't translate some sections

Greetings. I have a problem not only in one article, but in every article I try to translate from English to Georgian - it won't let me translate and/or upload any sections like "notes", "references" or "selected bibliography"; once I translate the headline of these types of sections, I simply cannot proceed. These types of translations are probably not supported from English to Georgian. Ninuc10 (talk) 13:29, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Unreliable on mobile devices

On previews, interlanguage links are invisible in previews even with correct formatting, contradicting a purpose of translation itself. Furthermore, attempting to add any tag has a chance to display an introductory pop-up that cannot be closed through any of its buttons, forcing a refresh of the page. This leads into another issue: refreshing the page or leaving the tab inactive for just a moment sends the user to a “Continue translation” prompt; clicking this button leads to a loading screen of seemingly infinite duration, and another refresh reveals that any progress made by the user has been removed.

Please consider the addition of an autosave feature. SapphirePimpernel (talk) 22:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Traducción A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)

Hola, estoy haciendo la traducción de un articulo y no me toma los cambios, cuando le doy a publicar el botón se queda en gris y no hace nada, después de esperar mucho tiempo volví a cargar la pagina y había perdido todos los cambios. Que pasa? como se soluciona?

Hello, I'm doing the translation of an article and I do not take the changes, when I give to publish the button is grayed out and does nothing, after waiting a long time I reloaded the page and had lost all changes. What happens? how can I fix it? Darkotico (talk) 15:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Lots of bugs with named references

Hello team and happy new year!

Once we've edited a reference (i.e. specify the language code of a source, correct mismatchs of parameters...), every single time this source is used more than once in the article, bugs are generated in the translated text.

Please check this example. 47k (2/3 of the article) needed to be removed from the generated text!!

This is very annoying, can you please check what's going on and correct it?

Cheers, Daehan (talk) 17:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

See phab:T203772. Jeroen N (talk) 22:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Frustrating 95% filter when translating from English into Spanish

After having translated the whole article "Scotch marine boiler" (that was suggested for me to translate in my mainpage after logging in), i cannot publich it, because "Tu traducción no se pudo publicar porque contiene demasiado texto sin modificar." as some paragraphs have 95% or more automatically translated text nor modified. But the fact is: Automatically translated text is very good, so it doesn't need to be modified. So? How do we solve this? PabloKWiki (talk) 20:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

In a case where the automatic translation in the Wikipedia you are translating to has improved, making the current machine translation limit very strict. You can discuss adjusting the limit with the Wikipedia community in the village pump.

In deciding how strict the automatic translation should be, your community should consider different samples of the automatic translation as case studies and agree on a suitable threshold based on its accuracy and the extent to which translators edit the machine translation.

Once there is a consensus on the percentage of adjustment (e.g. 99% automatic translation and 1% adjustment), you can create a phabricator ticket like this one so that the WMF Language team can adjust the machine translation limit.

I hope this information helps. Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 02:08, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Problem For Translate page

Hello everyone. I don’t know who is in charge for coding the Translate page on Wikipedia. But I wanted to send my message to the Wikipedia coders, and that is that in the Wikipedia translation system, the information boxes for individual persons (i.e personal biography box- see: Template:Infobox person) are not automatically translated, and it is time-consuming for Wikipedia users to manually translate and change the links one by one from English to another language. Please, could the coders come up with a solution for translating the information template boxes? Thank you. 188.210.118.137 09:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

It's unfortunate you won't let me publish

I just quickly translated an existing page from Slovenian into English, keeping all the existing links. It is frustrating that you won'e let me publish it Markofirst (talk) 22:57, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Source page has been modified....

Again hours of work lost, because, supposedly, the "source page had been modified"...

It then completely reverts all my work.

Could you please, please disable this function? Please??? Joostik (talk) 18:53, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

No, please, NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!! Joostik (talk) 10:24, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Cant post

I read all of the translation and did the needed updates but still almost all of the automatic translation was perfect. Because of the limit I can't post. יובל ברהמן (talk) 11:10, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Section being positioned at the bottom

I did some testing with the section translation, and I noticed that they are being positioned at the bottom of the page. See https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion_(mang%C3%A1), https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappi_Rangai and https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson-Shell, I had to manually place in the correct spot. It is kind of weird, since when I clicked to see the full article in Portuguese, it showed me that it would be placed in the correct place. tewi (talk) 02:31, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello @てゐ

Thank you for reporting this. Can you translate a section of another article to see if this issue still exists? UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 13:52, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

@UOzurumba (WMF) still placed at the bottom https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hataraku_Saib%C5%8D tewi (talk) 01:17, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @てゐ, for sharing this. I have reported this issue here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386131 UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

why bother translating?

Wikipedia bot is telling me that it can't publish the translation of the page Fish pepper because it has 96% un-modified txt from the automatic translation, I checked the entire text (proofread) and everything looks ok, I corrected only a few words that are not used in spanish, why bother putting this feature if it wont even alloy the translation to be saved so others can proofread it also? it is disgusting, I will have to create the page in spanish myself. Gerardolagunes (talk) 05:16, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Failed to publish a translated article

Hello pros, I used this tool to translate an existing article from italiano to chinese. However the translated version was failed to publish, we didn't make any changes tho. Publish error says it require some high experienced accounts to act. BUT, the English and German version were successfully published by this same account just few days ago. Please help me with the solution, thanks! Ghettolied (talk) 18:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

@Ghettolied: Hello, new users cannot publish articles to the main namespace due to the community restriction on Chinese Wikipedia. I have added a template for draft submission, and you can use this template to submit your draft to experienced editors for review. Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 12:29, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Appreciate it! But how can I get to that link and how can it help with my case? Thanks Ghettolied (talk) 08:52, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

I have a similar issue as Ghettolied, could anyone point to me where to find the template to submit a draft to experienced editors? Thanks in advance for any help Zxo.Hu (talk) 03:23, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

How can I send a contect I create to an authorized publisher to check and publish if the article is corrected?

How can I send a contect I create to an authorized publisher to check and publish if the article is corrected? Here is my question I have defined in the title as well Volkanapaydin (talk) 18:55, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Spanish auto translation is great.. but can't be published

I was trying to translate from english to spanish and used the content translation tool. It works great! I edited a few typos but can't publish it because my text has a high un-edited content. Should I re-write the article using different words? The auto translation is pretty accurate and I'm not sure how to edit it more without changing the whole spirit of the article. I read about the percentage of edited text rule in another post and agree with it, but seems like we're missing the opportunity to translate more articles just because the AI is getting too good. Any way to go around this rule? Thanks! Eileen Collyer (talk) 20:26, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Issue with content translation, En to Heb, who can help out?

Hello I have been trying in the last few months to translate this article to Hebrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_bath Using the tool Here is the link to draft I keep getting a spam notice Different note every time now it's this one saying לא ניתן לפרסם את התרגום שלך כי הוא מכיל יותר מדי טקסט ללא שינויים

Although I can't find any source in that name mentiond that it's spam website... soon 6 months will be gone and the translation that I have worked so hard on will be gone...Anyone would be able to help out with it?I use Chrome-- Tanx Laliv g (talk) 16:25, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

no translation block is added

Yesterday(14 February), while I was creating an article for the Rusyn Wikipedia, translation blocks stopped being added, and an error message appeared: "Automatic translation failed"("Автоматичний переклад не вдався").This issue affects all translators in the Rusyn Wikipedia LYTMAN (talk) 13:54, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

I get the same message when trying to translate to English. Looks like something's wrong with the tool. Ships&Space (talk) 17:56, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

I am facing the same issue when translating from English to Tachelhit (shi). The only work around I found was setting setting the default of the initial translation to "Start with an empty paragraph" in older articles I have already translated and published, Sometimes this works, and other times it doesn’t. -- AguzulH (talk) 10:38, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Cannot load hard text paragraphs for translation

Hello,

I have already sent a ticket to Phabricator about the subject matter linked here, but the long and short of the matter is that I cannot actually get the original/hard text from Portuguese to English in particular in order to translate the material manually. This seems to be occurring on any platform (I tried on Chrome, Edge, and now mobile), and I am unsure why that is. If anyone else knows as to what the issue is, that would be of great help.

Regards, PootisHeavy (talk) 02:37, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Me too in English to Japanese environment. 秋山夕子 (talk) 10:04, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

+1; it has been almost one week since CX2 is not accepting jawp users to work on it. Since I do not rely on the MT part of this extension, the part I respect and enjoy the most are;

• aligning original text on the left and the translation on the right;
• templates are auto imported to the right window, and at times they require adjustment, as templates are not matched on wikidata as muc as CX2 wishes;
• Wiki text is not applicable on CX2, however, II can add formatting as I understand wiki formatting;
• Of course, adding page links, brackets [[ and ]] is a very tidious job if I am forced to do manually, which CX2 offers whenever I copy the otiginal text from the left window.

I am sceptical about the abrupt unfunctioning of CX2:

• Why is there no notice in advance, if the change is permanent?
• Where on jawp or meta, do we have a forum to discuss pros and cons?

Does the situation has anything to do with the past debate, either jawp shall accept CX2 or not? -- Omotecho (talk) 14:53, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello @PootisHeavy, @Omotecho and @秋山夕子

This issue has been resolved; please confirm.

Thank you for your patience! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 16:04, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

@UOzurumba (WMF), Thank you and your team very much for offering the hard work as always. Honestly, CX2 supports much of my translation work, as I often skip/drop sentences from the original language, and missing them in the translated paragraph is a shameful mistake...

CX2 saves my face and time very much. Kindly, and happy March 3rd or Hina-matsuri festival (; -- Omotecho (talk) 06:02, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

The “Automatic translation failed” error keeps appearing.

For more than two days now, all the articles I've tried to translate from English into Portuguese keep getting the error “Machine translation failed”, even the ones I've already started. I don't know why this is happening, but if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. I don't even use automatic translation anyway, I just use the available “copy text” and translate by myself! Sucksfierro (talk) 22:15, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

@Sucksfierro,

This issue has been resolved. Please let me know if you are still experiencing it. Thank you for your patience! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 15:57, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

hey my friend, the problem persists Sucksfierro (talk) 18:42, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@Sucksfierro,

I just tried translating from en-pt and everything seems okay; please confirm. Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 16:09, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

yesterday it wasn't working, but today it worked, thanks Sucksfierro (talk) 16:24, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Still problematic

Last time I used the translation tool was some five years ago and I stopped using it, as it didn't work well. Even now the same problem persists. It keeps saying that my translations was not complete, no matter how much I change the translated text. I am trying to translate an article from English to Indonesian. Maybe it's better to do it manually. Meursault2004 (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

@Meursault2004,

The machine translation limit for idwiki is set to 70% based on the communities request some years back. In a case where the automatic translation has improved, making the current machine translation limit very strict. You can discuss adjusting the limit with your community in the village pump.

In deciding how strict the automatic translation should be, your community should consider different samples of the automatic translation as case studies and agree on a suitable threshold

based on its accuracy and the extent to which

translators edit the machine translation.

Once there is a consensus on the percentage of adjustment (e.g. allow 80% automatic translation and 20% adjustment), you can create a phabricator ticket like this one so that the WMF Language and Product Localization team can adjust the machine translation limit.

I hope this information helps. Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 16:13, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Meursault2004 (talk) 23:12, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Translation issue

Yesterday, I translated an article from Indonesian to English and when I clicked add translation, it appeared the pop-up "automatic translation failed". I thought this issue was just a moment, so I decided to try the translation on the next day. However, the same problem kept appearing. Apparently, other users also experienced the same translation problem as I do. Can someone fix this issue? Faldi00 (talk) 20:55, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

@Faldi00

This issue has been resolved. Please let me know if you are still experiencing it. Thank you for your patience! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 16:14, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

I just tried to translate an article from Indonesian to English and the issue still exist. So unfortunate. Faldi00 (talk) 22:02, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Problem publishing the translation

Done
Hello, I just finished my second translation, I'm new in here. I had two problems.

1) I cannot find a way to translate the reference list with the tool, is there a way to do it manually? or maybe they just don't show up but will be there once the article is published?

2) As soon as I try to publish it, this error message shows up:

"Los filtros de edición automáticos han detectado algún contenido problemático en tu traducción. Detecciones del filtro: Pruebas con caracteres gráficos y emojis, emoticonos y arte ASCII"

And I have no idea what emojis and so it is talking about. AbrilInon (talk) 23:33, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, just to fill in: can you check the right column/your language side, and see small letters in square brackets between words appear, such as: sample text ^[1].

If it does, then the system will push through the references from the original language, however;

possible issue

The system shows you error messages such as: "the reference format does not match". It means the reference templates are not matching between the original/source language and that of your templates.

possible solution

I do not try to correct it on CX2 usually, as I have not discovered a swift way to mend. In stead;

• 1) publish to my User:Omotecho/sandbox/ariticle_title space.
  • To do so, change the publishing destination with a cog-wheel icon; it is located at the very top of the page, outside of the translation columns;
• 2) when all jobs are done on CX2, the system insists I will double check the far-right column on CX2 and clear the errrors;
• 3) there is a button to note the error is solved, and I push each of them if there are four error notices shown as "1/4, 2/4,...";
• 3) then I will publish to my sandbox, mend the errors;
  • errors example: on jawp, all "cite web" templates need _access-date=_, or the system tells you there is an error.

If the correction is difficult, as somebody to help you, or does your wikipedia have mentoring program? Kindly, -- Omotecho (talk) 06:25, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I am not sure if I understood correctly all the indications, as I am not really good understanding programing technical vocabullary, but I will try to do it that way. Thank you for the detailled steps! AbrilInon (talk) 18:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

翻訳を開始したばかりで、翻訳元の記事が更新されていないのに「古い版に基ずく翻訳なので翻訳しなおしたほうがよいかもしれない」というおかしなメッセージがでる。

イゾラド (talk) 06:47, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello @イゾラド,

This warning message usually comes up when a translation is "in progress", and the source article has changed (been updated, edited or reorganised). Once you go back to continue translating that article, it will let you know that your translation is based on the old version of the source article which has changed. Depending on how much the source article has changed compared to your translation, it will suggest you re-translate your translation to sync it with the source (original) new. This might be a bug if you think what I describe is not the case with your situation. You can provide the following information so we check to be sure it is not a bug.

• Which article were you translating and to which language?
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• If you're getting any errors, please provide the log from the browser console if possible. To open browser console:press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac).

I hope this information helps you. Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 14:22, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Snowman emoji appears while translating

Two emojis, "☃☃" appears amongst a paragraph while I am working on the translation column (right).

• Pagename: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?from=en&to=ja&campaign=interlanguagelink&page=David+Shifrin ;
• saved at 01:03, 4 March 2025 or earlier.

FYI, I remember the same phenomenon back in 2022 or 2023, before MinT was introduced. Does it have anything to do with the input system, which in my case en-ja on iOS? -- Omotecho (talk) 01:06, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Space

Unnecessary space before reference TrueMoriarty (talk) 05:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I have the same problem. Sometimes there are an extra space after last word of the sentence and full stop. (I go English to Afrikaans) Thermofan (talk) 11:35, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Saving Work issue

I was unable to use the service at all when the administrators abusing of power locking my account unreasonably for a period of time, and my works in process were all forcibly abandoned at that time without any records be recovered. I suggest the tools should provide further optimizations such as record preservation and progress maintenance, etc. in case of unreasonable interruptions and the risk of interrupting of administrators no reason. Longway22 (talk) 13:39, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

A few bugs

Thanks for a great instrument, which dramatically increases my productivity. Still here are some suggestions, which, if implemented, could save me about 30% of time spent on processing and post-processing of the translations:

• References get automatically translated correctly only if they are in very specific format, like Template:Cite web. Still, simple references in the form [www... name] get discarded. References defined in the reference section in the end of the article also get discarded. Moreover, Template:Cite web gets correctly translated from English into Ukrainian, but fails when translated from German into Ukrainian. Some of the references get doubled during translation and need to later be fixed manually.
• An empty space added before each reference is a nuisance. Moreover, in some languages (en, de, es, pt) the reference goes after the punctuation mark, whereas in others (fr, uk, zh, ru) the reference goes before the punctuation mark. If Content translation could correct this depending on the selected pair of languages, it could save me much dull work.
• Sometimes unnecessary empty spaces are also added if the text has subscripts or superscripts (like power indices or chemical formulae).
• Whereas a blue wikilink leads to an untranslated article, it is shown as a gray link with which you can do nothing. Before 2024 one could turn these gray references into red wikilinks to nonexistent articles, but now this feature is broken. What I would ideally love to have instead is automatic insertion of Template:Interlanguage link for all untranslated articles. (Certainly, I'll need to correct the names of the translation, but a half of this work would have been already done by Content translation.)
• Many language versions use   for unbroken spaces (e.g. between the physical value and its units, between the initials and the name, in Czech even between the preposition and the following word). Content translation doesn't recognize this   combination as space, and it often turns the translation into gibberish.
• If a paragraph includes a link to geographic coordinates, the entire paragraph gets broken, not just the coordinate link.
• Content translation can't translate sufficiently big tables or other structures (like multicolumn lists). It's very time consuming to do the biggest tables by hand.
• It is very nice that Content translation is offering instruments to format the text (boldface, subscript etc.). What is still missing is the possibility to format text as names of sections, subsections etc.

--Oleksiy.golubov (talk) 01:19, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

@Oleksiy.golubov,

Thank you for taking the time to provide a detailed set of feedback for improving the Content translation tool. This will be shared with the team for consideration. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 19:11, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

How do I reach the content translation interface from the Wikipedia app?

How do I reach the content translation interface from the Wikipedia app? Right now, I go to notifications and find a system message and click it. Ravidreams (talk) 09:18, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Ravidreams,

Thank you for your question. Currently, the Content Translation tool is easily accessible via the web on mobile devices, but it is not available in the Wikipedia apps.

We are looking into options for integrating it into the Wikipedia mobile apps for both Android and iOS. This may include adding it to the suggested edits workflow, as mentioned in the related ticket.

I have also included your feedback in that discussion. In the meantime, please continue using the Content Translation tool on the web until we implement these changes.

Best regards, UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 15:43, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Suggestions need to remember my preferred languages

Hi, my preferred set of languages for translation is English to Tamil. However, every time I visit the new content translation too interface it autoloads Spanish to English suggestions. Even if I change, it doesn't remember the next time I visit. This is a major inconvenience. Please fix this. Thanks. Ravidreams (talk) 09:21, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Ravidreams

Could you share the steps/link that you use to get to the content translation tool? We recently fixed this issue and we would like to double-check.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385287 PWaigi-WMF (talk) 18:04, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

I am not facing this issue in my desktop view. However, when I visit the new tool from my Wikipedia Android app, the issue is there. I got a system notification in the app. When I click that, I am taken to the new tool which has this problem. I also don't know how else to access this new tool. Please check my message above this thread too. Let me know if you need screenshots. Thanks. Ravidreams (talk) 09:57, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Section translation inserted at wrong places

Hi, I tried two articles from English to Tamil for section translation in my laptop. Both the times, the section is inserted at the end of the page below all the content. I had to edit the page again manually to place it at an appropriate place. Please check these diffs 1, 2. - Ravidreams (talk) 10:01, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Ravidreams, for sharing this. I have reported this here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386131. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

@User:UOzurumba (WMF) Thanks for your effort on it.But, Please note that the issue is still pending and has not yet been resolved. I would appreciate further assistance in resolving this matter as soon as possible.Thanks -- Sridhar G (talk) 13:36, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

New dashboard

The new dashboard is hardly an improvement. It now only gives a very few personal suggestions. I'm not really interested in which subjects are "popular" either. Also, "expand with new sections"? Seriously? Joostik (talk) 20:06, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Even "refresh suggestions" now hardly helps, because it keeps returning to the same limited number of suggestions anyway. Joostik (talk) 20:31, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

The only improvement is that you can now translate sections of articles which already exist in the target language (or even whole articles). Never understood why that was not possible before. But that does not mean I need suggestions of sections I might want to translate. It does not work that way. --Joostik (talk) 18:17, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Implementation of Policy for Content Translation Tool in Tamil Wikipedia

Hi,

We have established a policy regarding the use of the Content Translation Tool in Tamil Wikipedia. According to this policy, any user whether a new contributor or an administrator must request access before creating an article using this tool.

This policy has been formulated based on a community vote conducted in the Village Pump. Kindly let us know the appropriate steps for implementing this policy.

Looking forward to your guidance on this matter.-- Sridhar G (talk) 13:44, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Sridhar G,

The next step will be to create a ticket in Phabricator like this one, explain the request and add the necessary tags. The team responsible will then work on it. You can also track progress from the ticket.

Best regards, UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 15:01, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much. I have created a ticket . Kindly let me know if it needs any modification. -- Sridhar G (talk) 15:05, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

English to Afrikaans, mostly ok, but please add source code option

Thanks for this tool. There some are bugs, but I still find it very useful. Thanks. I do not know if these comments will still help you.

• I have a need to use it to add to existing but tiny Afrikaans articles from English. The option "is there", but a few times today it did not go to a recognisable page. It allows translating only one paragraph at a time, but following these links did not lead to a side-by-side setup. Eventually I got to a "translate anyway" message that helped. There is an in-between page, for me mostly with just the "continue translation"-button active. This seems redundant.
• I have a big translation that gets done in between other work, taking me very long. The source article does get updated, but in insignificant ways. I am happy to use the older version.
• In the past four days all intermediate edits to the older article was lost in the draft. I had to start at the point I was at two weeks ago every time, despite the message "draft has just been saved". I trust this is just teething problems.
• I would love to switch between visual and source editing..! For me it would solve quite a few problems.

I would like to copy source code, like other commenters.

• I get superfluous spaces too, like other commenters. I could just live with that, if need be.

I suppose (hold on to your chair...) having three panes side-by-side is too much? Have two different source languages at the same time. The Dutch Wikipedia is very nice to compare to the Afrikaans, but mostly the English is more complete. As an alternative the third pane could swop between the second source language and source code for the target translation. Thanks for this tool, and your work to improve it. Thermofan (talk) 12:36, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Traducción Español Asturiano

Muchas Gracias por la herramienta de Traducción que nos hace el trabajo mas fácil, le cuento,

Después de traducir la página "Isla Smith", corregir y ajustar los datos, al dar a la herramienta traducir, esta no traduce la página correctamente, por el contrario la página que se muestra dice:

"Islla Smith"

En este momento no hay texto en esta página. Puedes buscar el título de esta página en otras páginas, buscar en los registros relacionados, o crear esta página.

o

"There is currently no text on this page. You can search for this page's title on other pages, search related records, or create this page."

No puedo comprender la causa de que la traducción no se lleve a cabo. y donde se encuentra el error.

Gracias.

@Amasuela, April 2025 -2

83.97.148.219 09:00, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Bug in section translation from English to Vietnamese

I tried section translation on Vietnamese Wikipedia from English to Vietnamese to translate a section from the enwiki article on the CIA. However, when I published, the viwiki page on the CIA didn't change, even though the ContentTranslation tool says that it is published. Also, the tool no longer allows you to see what % of the article translation you are doing is from machine translation if you use machine translation. Dotruonggiahy12 (talk) 16:53, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Dotruonggiahy12,

I can still see the % of the MT where it appeared before. You have to click on the "< >" arrows to see if there are other issue notifications on the panel; clicking on it will take you to it. I used the English-to-Igbo language pair to verify this; I could not access the English-to-Vietnamese language pair because it has some restrictions. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 16:40, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

On the old interface, I can see the % MT when I hover my cursor over the draft translation, but that is no longer available on the new interface. I am referring to the main page of ContentTranslation where you can see all your drafts. Dotruonggiahy12 (talk) 21:54, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for testing section translation and I'm happy that it's now finally available after we spoke about it last year. Regarding your report about missing machine translation percentage, that is captured in this task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386888 which we plan to work on soon. Nikerabbit (talk) 13:18, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Unable to load draft translation

I have been prompted with an Echo notification to finish a translation I had started a long time ago. Trying to do so, at this link, I consistently get the error message "שגיאה קריטית: תרגום תוכן לא נטען בשל שגיאה פנימית." (backtranslating from Hebrew: "critical error: content translation didn't load due to internal error")

Please advise. Ijon (talk) 06:42, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

the source article is this one. Ijon (talk) 06:43, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Ijon

Apologies for this issue; I have reported it here. You can track progress through the ticket.

Best regards, UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Verification code problem

Hi, I translated the page "Lex Luthor (DC Extended Universe)" into Japanese, but I can't publish it because it keeps getting stuck at the captcha. Is this a bug? Or are other conditions required?Hope someone help me… 你飛得離太陽太近了 (talk) 06:16, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

I entered the verification code, but it didn't load. 你飛得離太陽太近了 (talk) 06:20, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello @你飛得離太陽太近了,

I have reported this issue here. You can track progress through the ticket. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 22:53, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

ok,but is Chinese translated into Japanese… 你飛得離太陽太近了 (talk) 23:26, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I have corrected it. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 18:46, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Critical error

I've been translating the article "Nami (One Piece)" from English into Vietnamese, but somehow I got notice of "Critical error: Content translation failed to load due to internal error". Someone help fix this issue, please! Mintu Martin (talk) 09:47, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Mintu Martin

Apologies for this issue; I have reported it here. You can track progress through the ticket.UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Choice of language

I will like to translate to a language (Joual), however it is not in the languages that we can choice to translate. How could I translate a page in Joual? Ètsjoqa (talk) 20:21, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Ètsjoqa

Do we have Joual Wikipedia? I can't find this on Wikipedia. Suppose you know this language, but it does not have a Wikipedia. In that case, you can explore starting this language Wikipedia in the Incubator project. Please let me know if you have any other question. Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 18:54, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

recent translation issues

I use content translation past 4 years and created more than 9500 pages in Tamil Wikipedia. I appreciate the recent changes in the tool regarding editing various aspects. But past two days I am struggling to translate even a single article which has 3 lines. To publish this I have to save as draft and move to main space. While doing that I have to do inter language link manually. If an article has more than two or three sections some sections are missing. Chathirathan (talk) 15:43, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Issue has been fixed by a co-admin. Change in translator user access solved this problem. --Chathirathan (talk) 16:34, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I also experienced the same problem when I tried to translate an article in Vietnamese. Is there anything I can do to fix this? HuyNome42 (talk) 12:33, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

honey what.

okay so

first of all where did the "not avaliable in [language]" go in the new version? this is pretty weird since when i used the "section translation" tool, it just created a new page instead of putting in the new section, previously i assumed that "oh! this page already exists, i could just add another section"

article in question is Dueñas in Iloilo. I was prompted to write section 6 (Notable personalities) and when i finished translating i got this in my contrib log

• 07h51, 13/4/2025 khác sử  +152  M Dueñas Created by translating the opening section from the page "Dueñas, Iloilo" Thẻ: Thêm một hay nhiều mục vào danh sách Biên dịch nội dung Biên dịch đoạn

-tynjee (talk) 06:27, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Pages are not loading

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. I am a translator of articles from Russian to Portuguese, and there is an issue where the pages are not loading. I have tried opening some pages four times, and they still didn’t load.

Additionally, it would be helpful to be able to view the source code, for example, to check the references. Thank you. Apollo 13013 (talk) 20:16, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Translator claims 100% of text of the article is not translated

Translating en:The Basic Principles of War Propaganda to Serbian language. After translating everything, translator does not let me publish it, claiming that 100% of text is not translated:

Ђидо (talk) 22:21, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

publication in progress

Good morning, The tool seems blocked with the messsage publication en cours when I try to publish my translation from italian to french of Ingravescentem Aetatem. have an idea of what the problem is? - AvatarFR (talk) 08:40, 22 April 2025 (UTC)