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Detect if a page is presented as machine translation
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When a page is served to user by a machine translation service, most probably outside a wikipedia domain. There should be standard way to detect that context.

  1. It should be translation service independent if possible
  2. Should be able to identify the source language, target language
  3. Should be able to identify the machine translation service

This may require some customization at the external services as well.

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• santhosh created this task.Dec 19 2018, 10:43 AM
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• santhosh added a comment.EditedDec 19 2018, 10:48 AM

In the case of Google translate, we have

  • <meta http-equiv="X-Translated-By" content="Google"> inserted to the <head> of the translated page. This is a strong indicator that the page is translated and also gives the service name
  • The lang attribute of the <html> is changed to the target language. But that is a week indicator since mediawiki pages rendered in an interface language different from content language also has that lang attribute. By comparing its value with wgContentLanguage and wgUserLanguage, we may be able to detect an external change to the lang attribute.
  • If the document.referrer is a translation server that the extension knows and configured, it tells that the content is translated and the service name. But does not tell to which language.
• santhosh claimed this task.Dec 19 2018, 10:52 AM
• santhosh moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the ExternalGuidance board.
• santhosh triaged this task as High priority.Dec 19 2018, 11:01 AM
• santhosh added a comment.Dec 20 2018, 6:22 AM

T212329: Access additional details about the automatic translation proposes to gather additional details about the translation service

• santhosh moved this task from In Progress to In Review on the ExternalGuidance board.Jan 3 2019, 8:52 AM
• santhosh moved this task from In Review to Done on the ExternalGuidance board.Jan 8 2019, 11:49 AM
Pginer-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Feb 7 2019, 10:24 AM
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