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Can't post my translation due to x% restriction

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IntCL (talkcontribs)

Hi, I'm using this tool to translate this article into spanish using the automatic translation (google translate) and improved the translation, orthography and coherence of the text almost in its entirety making it suitable for reading in spanish, however it tells me that 94% of the text is identical, I have spent more than 1.5 hours to reach this instance and now I cannot publish this article ... this completely eliminates my desire to want to translate some article using this tool, I have used it before with articles with fewer words without problems but in this article that is quite long I’m having problems. Now if I want to publish this I need to change almost everything out of context or with synonyms that may not be the most appropriate and will make the text harder to understand in spanish which is very frustrating, maybe in the future this tool would recognize someone who has translated x number of articles (don't know if that is technically possible..) as a trusted translator or something and be less strict with him? Thanks.

Pginer-WMF (talkcontribs)

Thanks for the feedback, @IntCL.

The limits applied are described in this page. Currently there is an error in the way those are communicated, but the limits are applied as described in the page. In this case, the translation is prevented from publishing when it contains 10 or more paragraphs each with 95% of Machine translation (provided that you marked the warnings as resolved to let the tool know it was reviewed, if not you may get the error for 10 paragraphs with 80% or more of unmodified machine translation).

These limits can be adjusted, and we are open to try new strategies or adjusting the thresholds. We are trying to find a good balance to prevent lightly edited translations while allowing the good ones, and feedback (from both editors creating them, and those reviewing them) is very helpful. Please, let us know more details about the paragraphs where you got a warning and you think you should have not got them. This will be very helpful to better adjust the system.

Thanks!

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