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Create cxserver api to suggest source title for given target language and title
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API requirement:

Suggest a source article to use for creating given article in given target language using translation

The language of the source article can be derived from:

  • The language (other than the current one) where the user has more contributions.
  • A language the user has accessed (based on the ULS-CompactLinks ), giving priority to larger wikis which are more likely to act as source languages.
  • Previous translation

The possible source languages can be an input to api. Since some of them are client side information.

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Update cxserver to 2019-08-06-100812-productionoperations/deployment-chartsmaster+3 -3
API to suggest source title for given target language and titlemediawiki/services/cxservermaster+305 -2
Customize query in gerrit

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• santhosh triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 9 2019, 9:50 AM
• santhosh created this task.
• santhosh moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September) board.
• santhosh added a comment.Jul 9 2019, 12:15 PM

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gerritbot added a comment.Jul 9 2019, 12:16 PM

Change 521482 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santhosh; owner: Santhosh):
[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] API to suggest source title for given target langauge and title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/521482

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 9 2019, 12:16 PM
• Petar.petkovic moved this task from In Progress to In Review on the Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September) board.Jul 9 2019, 8:39 PM
• Petar.petkovic subscribed.Jul 26 2019, 9:08 AM

The API introduced by the patch always tries using English as source wiki to translate from. API first tries matching title with possible source language wikis and then tries utilizing Wikidata. If there are no suggestions after that, MT is brought to action.
In order to find possible source article, MT translates the title from language where you're creating new page into all possible source languages (where English is included by default). Since MT is not available into English, we miss on the opportunity of finding likely source article for most users. Of course, English is not the sole example here. All MT limitations we introduced for translating content, are crippling our title translation.

Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T216500: Surface the article the user is trying to create when suggesting to translate.Jul 29 2019, 3:13 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 6 2019, 10:08 AM

Change 521482 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] API to suggest source title for given target language and title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/521482

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 6 2019, 10:11 AM
• Petar.petkovic moved this task from In Review to Needs QA on the Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September) board.Aug 6 2019, 10:11 AM
• Jpita subscribed.EditedAug 6 2019, 9:02 PM
In T227571#5316980, @santhosh wrote:

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@santhosh where can I find this api playground/documentation page?
Can you provide some info on how I can test this ?

• Jpita moved this task from Needs QA to Pending input for QA on the Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September) board.Aug 6 2019, 9:14 PM
• santhosh added a comment.Aug 7 2019, 4:30 AM
In T227571#5397881, @Jpita wrote:

@santhosh where can I find this api playground/documentation page?
Can you provide some info on how I can test this ?

https://cxserver.wikimedia.org/v2/?doc once the code is updated or any running cxserver instance with latest code.

gerritbot added a comment.Aug 7 2019, 5:02 AM

Change 528618 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; owner: KartikMistry):
[operations/deployment-charts@master] Update cxserver to 2019-08-06-100812-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/528618

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 7 2019, 5:02 AM
• Jpita moved this task from Pending input for QA to Recheck after deployment on the Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September) board.Aug 7 2019, 8:31 AM
Nikerabbit renamed this task from Create cxserver api to suggest source title for given target langauge and title to Create cxserver api to suggest source title for given target language and title.Aug 7 2019, 9:20 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 7 2019, 11:16 AM

Change 528618 merged by Santhosh:
[operations/deployment-charts@master] Update cxserver to 2019-08-06-100812-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/528618

Stashbot added a comment.Aug 7 2019, 11:37 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-08-07T11:37:19Z] <kart_> Updated cxserver to 2019-08-06-100812-production (T227571)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 7 2019, 12:11 PM
KartikMistry mentioned this in rDEPLOYCHARTScdc24da9bbe6: Update cxserver to 2019-08-06-100812-production.Aug 7 2019, 9:58 PM
• Jpita closed this task as Resolved.Aug 8 2019, 9:28 PM
• Jpita moved this task from Recheck after deployment to Done on the Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September) board.
• Petar.petkovic mentioned this in T232372: Update invite for translation when creating a new article.Oct 9 2019, 9:38 PM
Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T298084: Invite for translation when creating a new article on mobile.Dec 21 2021, 11:26 AM
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