Can you add projects/tags related to the topics discussed, please?

Terminological note: We have a comparable corpora (texts on the same topics in different languages), while a parallel corpora would require them to be equivalent translations.

@Nikerabbit that's true currently, although CX-translated texts are probably closer to parallel corpora. But on the other hand, we have no good reason to *require* parallel corpora right now, and in fact encourage the opposite: minority-language wikis should feel ownership of their content, be free to change it, etc.

*But* the bigger picture of this proposal is that we can start to make the translation aspect part of our core content, and part of the service we provide. You are not *requires* to construct parallel corpora, but if you *do* then we can provide some aids to your wiki: (a) your work can improve machine translation of your language, and (b) if edits are made to the source material we can semi-automatically suggest edits to keep your translation in parallel.

For "big" wikis like (say) enwiki/dewiki, they probably won't see the value of this, and will continue to create comparable corpora, not parallel corpora.

But I've worked with smaller wikis who are overwhelmed by the amount of work tracking changes in our bigger projects and keeping their little wikis up to date. They would probably find the trade-off to be a good one, and they would be contributing to the open source training corpora for their language at the same time, possibly benefiting other projects as well.

It would be up to the individual wikis and individual authors. So long as we can track "translations which are intended to be parallel" and provide authors a means to opt-in to this, we can start providing better services on an translation-by-translation basis.

Discussed briefly at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-November/085545.html:

my "big picture" vision here is that we start using our machine translation tools to tie our projects more tightly together, so we feel more like "one project aided by a bunch of babel fish" and less like "a thousand separate projects, each in their own tower".

(Mangling the tower of babel metaphor a bit, I hope you'll forgive me.)

@cscott Hey! As developer summit is less than four weeks from now, we are working on a plan to incorporate the ‘unconference sessions’ that have been proposed so far and would be generated on the spot. Thus, could you confirm if you plan to facilitate this session at the summit? Also, if your answer is 'YES,' I would like to encourage you to update/ arrange the task description fields to appear in the following format:

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Description Move ‘The Problem,' ‘Expected Outcome,' ‘Current status of the discussion’ and ‘Links’ to this section
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We will be reaching out to the summit participants next week asking them to express their interest in unconference sessions by signing up.

To maintain the consistency, please consider referring to the template of the following task description: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149564.