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I want a Bot to be translating 20 stub articles per day from English Wikipedia to Hausa Wikipedia

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There are several issues to be thought:

  • Does any translation api exist the bot can be use?
  • The version history must be copied to the translation target due to license rights
  • transferbot.py is able to copy any page from source wiki to destination wiki including the version history which is saved to a defined subage but it cannot translate yet. Anyway this script can be reused for translations too if there is a translation api
  • A better way than copying the version history would be a version import. But this needs cross-wiki import rights. As long as wikimedia site farm has this ability for cross-wiki imports the plain import like it is done by transferbot.py should not be made
  • A machine translation is not a good idea for an enzyklopedia; it needs human redacting. Therefore bot should import and translate from a wiki to a draft target only
Xqt changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Apr 27 2020, 7:30 AM
Xqt triaged this task as Lowest priority.Jul 22 2020, 7:10 PM

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