University of Helsinki's OPUS project focuses on creating tools and resources for open-source machine translation services. They collaborate with the Wikimedia Foundation to build models for languages with limited resources, using data from various sources. Wikimedia's MinT (machine translation service) translation service relies on the OPUS model and is available in 200+ languages. Their ongoing collaboration aims to develop models based on parallel corpus information for low-resource languages.

In the future, this can also help expand Wikimedia’s MinT (machine translation service) to smaller language communities. This task is about developing and implementing an outreach plan to:

• Gather parallel corpus information from smaller language communities that do no have a Wikipedia yet and may or may not be in Incubator.
• Obtain feedback on current machine translation quality.
• Promote ideas to language communities to contribute to the Opus-MT models.