Given recent world events, and certain recent news, we should evaluate whether Yandex can still be considered a reliable and safe provider of translation content for cxserver's mt functionality. Some initial questions:
We got this report from a user about some mistranslations from Yandex that seem to be vandalism. For example, when translating the name of the director "Gunnar Vikene" from Norwegian to French, the resulting translation from Yandex is "Jean-Luc Mélenchon", a French politician. This issue is visible using the Yandex translate website.
This kind of issue is expected to be easy to notice by the translators as they work on the translation. So it is still unclear to me whether it is better to have an unreliable translation to fix or no translation at all in these cases.
I don't know if Yandex has a way for people to contribute/correct translations (similar to what Google Translate has) that could have been used to vandalize their system, and how much informing them could help fix or prevent this going further.
Hey @Pginer-WMF - thanks for looking into this. I think, if we're not seeing anything that looks like a sustained, coordinated campaign to provide erroneous or malicious translation content from Yandex, then this task, as written, can likely be declined. Of course we do want to maintain some awareness in regards to this potential attack vector, likely for as long as the current geopolitical events transpire.
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Unfortunately, this still appears to be a potentially relevant issue: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/russian-consortium-announces-terms-5-112456481.html
Yandex was removed from cxserver
Ticket: T407345: cxserver: Yandex MT service failure
Patch : https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/cxserver/+/1198040
The other task which was used to remove the MT is public. Considering the original description of this ticket refers to world events, and political events, I would defer to you how other similarly drafted tickets may have been treated in the past to avoid any unnecessary fallouts later.