Greetings,
The WMF Language team is planning to enable the MinT (Machine in
Translation) translation service on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate
extension is enabled. Translators will be able to use suggestions from MinT
to translate pages using the Translate extension. Currently there are 46
sites
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/689f12fb42ad7891739d5d64deaf2e02ecf2a3c0/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php#7054>
where the Translate extension is enabled. To ensure a smooth rollout and
cater to increasing demand, we plan to enable the service in a staggered
manner over the next few weeks starting with sites that have lower traffic.
You can subscribe to this task on Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341445> to track the progress of the
roll out.
MinT
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/13/mint-supporting-underserved-languages-with-open-machine-translation/>
is a new translation service by the Wikimedia Foundation Language Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering> that is
based on open source neural machine translation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation> models and
supports over 200 languages. The service is hosted in Wikimedia Foundation
infrastructure, and it runs translation models that have been released by
other organizations with an open source license.
You can read more about MinT and share your feedback in the project summary
page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Machine_Translation/MinT>
or in the support page here. Please also go through the known issues
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mint/>, in particular this one
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341544>, which affects strings that
contain wikitext markup.
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Regards,
Abijeet Patro (he/him)
Staff Software Engineer, Language Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation