Page MenuHomePhabricator

Modify Machine Translation in Japanese Wikipedia by 75% or more to publish a translation
Closed, ResolvedPublic

Description

Content translation applies different limits to control how much machine translation is modified, preventing the publishing of unreviewed initial machine translation.

This ticket proposes to increase the modification of Machine translation to ensure that translators modify the initial machine translation by 75% in Japanese Wikipedia before publishing the translation.
The above decision is based on complaint from the Japanese community.

Once the above change is made, the community will monitor content published using the Content translation tool to evaluate the quality and number of translations.

Event Timeline

Change 852924 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; author: KartikMistry):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set ContentTranslation MT threshold to 75 in Japanese WP

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/852924

Change 852924 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set ContentTranslation MT threshold to 75 in Japanese WP

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/852924

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-11-07T08:24:16Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:852924|Set ContentTranslation MT threshold to 75 in Japanese WP (T321819)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-11-07T08:24:36Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> urbanecm and kartik: Backport for [[gerrit:852924|Set ContentTranslation MT threshold to 75 in Japanese WP (T321819)]] synced to the testservers: mwdebug1001.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2002.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug2001.codfw.wmnet

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-11-07T08:30:41Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:852924|Set ContentTranslation MT threshold to 75 in Japanese WP (T321819)]] (duration: 06m 24s)

Hello @Pginer-WMF, we might have to leave this ticket as pending for now and not close it entirely. The Japanese Wikipedia users that complained are not in agreement to adjusting the Machine translation limit to this percentage. Sorry my notification came late.

Hello @Pginer-WMF, we might have to leave this ticket as pending for now and not close it entirely. The Japanese Wikipedia users that complained are not in agreement to adjusting the Machine translation limit to this percentage. Sorry my notification came late.

The limit change already took effect, we can adjust further based on feedback. Is there any suggestion on whether to make it more or less strict?