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In the Wikipedia Android App description translation feature, allow showing source descriptions in more than one language
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The Wikipedia Android App description translation feature is pretty cool! I played with it a bit, and here's one piece of advice: allow showing source descriptions in more than one language. Currently you can select one source language and one target language. It can be useful to see more than one. For example, if I translate from French to Hebrew, it can be useful to see also the English description. It's not just a matter of which language do I know better; both the French and the English descriptions can give me good ideas for writing the translation.

Something similar is already done in the Translate extension, which allows the user to specify "assistant languages". The ultimate source language is always shown (on translatewiki and on Wikimedia sites this is always English), but other languages are shown in the sidebar if the user chose them and if the strings were translated into them.

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Amire80 created this task.Jan 27 2019, 11:52 AM
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• Charlotte triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 4 2019, 1:47 PM
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scblr added a comment.Feb 8 2019, 11:04 AM

@Amire80: Are you referring to the “Translate title descriptions“ screen? 👇

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The behavior you’re describing is foreseen to be covered in this view:

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The current prototype does the replace the article card on language switch, which won’t be the case at a later stage. Checking descriptions in other languages, if available, will therefore be possible. However, this is still valuable feedback and definitely an interesting option to consider, e.g. in the form of a dropdown in this view.

Amire80 added a comment.Feb 8 2019, 1:13 PM
In T214781#4937717, @schoenbaechler wrote:

@Amire80: Are you referring to the “Translate title descriptions“ screen? 👇

Yes.

The current prototype does the replace the article card on language switch, which won’t be the case at a later stage. Checking descriptions in other languages, if available, will therefore be possible. However, this is still valuable feedback and definitely an interesting option to consider, e.g. in the form of a dropdown in this view.

This indeed looks like a good place to show several descriptions, if the user wants it. How can we know that the user wants it? The current source language should be the highest priority of course, and if other languages are defined in the app, then they can be shown.

• Charlotte merged a task: T159927: Show decriptions in other languages when editing the description in the app.Jul 14 2019, 8:08 PM
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