One way to do this is to add simple -> en to the codemap of each service.

Duplicate of T124545? :)

In T196354#4253805, @Amire80 wrote:

Duplicate of T124545? :)

Thanks for pointing to that ticket. Although T124545 was created before, I decided to merge that one into the current one since it has a little bit more of detail and discussion. But feel free to add anything else that may be missing to the ticket description.

In T196354#4253738, @Nikerabbit wrote:

One way to do this is to add simple -> en to the codemap of each service.

That sounds like a good approach. I assume that this makes it a small/easy change.

I wonder if this change would make it hard to later enable MT for Simple English as a target language, while keeping MT disabled for English as a target. This is not part of the immediate plans but we can consider it for the future.

Change 441156 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nikerabbit; owner: Nikerabbit):
[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] Enable MT for "Simple English" as if it was (regular) English

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/441156

Change 441156 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] Enable MT for "Simple English" as if it was (regular) English

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/441156

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-06-25T12:26:09Z] <kartik@deploy1001> Started deploy [cxserver/deploy@cc6dc61]: Update cxserver to ece5e7a (T191874, T196354, T195768, T195768)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-06-25T12:29:42Z] <kartik@deploy1001> Finished deploy [cxserver/deploy@cc6dc61]: Update cxserver to ece5e7a (T191874, T196354, T195768, T195768) (duration: 03m 33s)