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Starting a translation from the CX dashboard in the Simple English Wikipedia doesn't work
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Go to https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation
  • Select Russian as the source language.
  • Select an article to translate.
    • Problem 1: *English* is automatically offered as the target language, rather than Simple English.
  • Click the target language button. Select Simple English.
  • Click "Start translation"
    • Problem 2: Nothing happens.

What happens?:

  1. *English* is automatically offered as the target language, rather than Simple English.
  2. Nothing happens when clicking "Start translation".

What should have happened instead?:

  1. Simple English is supposed to be offered as target language.
  2. "Start translation" is supposed to start a translation.

Event Timeline

Change 890007 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santhosh; author: Santhosh):

[mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation@master] Fix token validation for simple wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/890007

Change 890007 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation@master] Fix token validation for simple wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/890007

@ngkountas

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It does seem simple english is still not selected as a target language when I go to the link in the description. See attached video

Change 920642 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nik Gkountas; author: Nik Gkountas):

[mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation@master] CX: Use sitemapper current wiki language code for target language init

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/920642

Change 920642 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation@master] CX: Use sitemapper current wiki language code for target language init

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/920642

@ngkountas This first of this defect seems to be an issue ( it automatically still picks english instead of simple english but the second part is fixed

can you pls advice ?

Pginer-WMF subscribed.

The target language seems to be more based on the user context. It shows as Spanish for me. As we review the workflow of article selection for the new unified dashboard we can polish more the behaviour if needed.