Page MenuHomePhabricator

Enable Flores as the default service for Icelandic, Igbo and Zulu
Closed, ResolvedPublic

Description

After enabling Flores as an optional translation system for Content Translation on Icelandic, Igbo, and Zulu Wikipedias, it was proposed to these Wikipedia communities to make it the default for a limited period of time. This will allow to gather more data in order to understand which service is preferred and get useful feedback for improving Flores.

After the recent announcement on Icelandic, Igbo, and Zulu Wikipedias, we plan to enable the service on April 11 if no major concerns are raised by the communities.

Note that Flores support is for the language pairs involving English as a source language. That is, English -> {Icelandic, Igbo, and Zulu}. Other language pairs should be unaffected (e.g., French -> Igbo should still have Google as the default since it is not supported by Flores)

Event Timeline

Change 778686 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; author: KartikMistry):

[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] Enable Flores as the default MT service for Icelandic, Igbo and Zulu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/778686

Change 778686 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] Enable Flores as the default MT service for Icelandic, Igbo and Zulu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/778686

Change 778988 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; author: KartikMistry):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] Update cxserver to 2022-04-11-085026-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/778988

Change 778988 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/deployment-charts@master] Update cxserver to 2022-04-11-085026-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/778988

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-04-11T09:28:09Z] <kart_> Updated cxserver to 2022-04-11-085026-production (T305125)

@UOzurumba I've enabled Flores as the default service MT for Icelandic, Igbo, and Zulu (from English). Please update the community on this change.