Topic on Talk:Content translation

Hello,

"Your translation can not be published because it contains too much unmodified text"

This message appears in the latest versions of the translator of the french translator and it blocks the publication.

If the goal is laudable, it totally forbid the publication of the article. Some translations of the Google translator are often good enough (without too many changes). In this circumstance, the article can not be published.

This is nothing more than a sabotage of Wikipedia's translation tool.

Here you wil find " Commerce du bois britannique" translation from en:British timber trade (copy/paste from translator because it is impossible to publish). The interface explain that 95% of the text is unmodified and un-publishable. But in fact it's largely enough (for a first draft)

Thanks for the feedback, @Oimabe

The current message is a bit misleading. The limits currently work as described in this page. It seems that the problem in your case is not the overall percentage of machine translation (prevents from publishing translations with 99% or more of unmodified MT), but the number of problematic paragraphs: having 5 paragraphs or more with 95% of Machine translation (or 80% for those paragraphs you didn't review and marked as resolved).

Currently we are working to make these limits less strict to avoid the issues reported. We are looking for a good balance between preventing the publication of lightly edited machine translation and not getting in the way of those making a good translation. User feedback is very important in this process, please let us know if there were specific paragraphs where you got a warning about the lack of modifications where it was not expected, or anything that you consider relevant based on the description of the limits from the linked page above.

Thanks!!

Thank you for your support. It seems there is a checkbox "check as resolved" for each paragraph. If I had been more attentive, the publication would have been possible. I had never seen the functionality before.

Congratulations for this powerful tool.