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Enable MinT for Wikipedia readers MVP on a set of pilot wikis
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As part of the work on MinT for Wiki Readers MVP (T359072) we want to allow communities to access more content that is only available in other languages with the use of machine translation.

After an initial enablement (T363464) we are considering exposing the tool to a broader set of wikis. These include Wikipedias of different characteristics:

  • Communities with MT for the first time with good levels of activity
  • Medium-size wikis with potential to use MT to expand sections.
  • Communities where data shows MinT may be providing good quality translations.

The list of selected wikis is listed below:

  1. Persian (fa)
  2. Korean (ko)
  3. Hindi (hi)
  4. Bangla (bn)
  5. Icelandic (is)
  6. Fula (ff)
  7. South Azerbaijani (azb)
  8. Bhojpuri (bh)
  9. Central Bikol (bcl)
  10. Santali (sat)
  11. Kashmiri (ks)
  12. Minangkabau (min)

We'll incorporate feedback from these Wikipedia communities to identify blockers and opportunities for improvement.


This ticket originally included a longer list. for practical reasons, it has been divided in two groups. The second part is captured in T367067.

Event Timeline

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Change #1049898 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; author: KartikMistry):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable MinT for Wikipedia readers MVP on a set of pilot wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1049898

Change #1049898 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable MinT for Wikipedia readers MVP on a set of pilot wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1049898

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-27T07:04:07Z] <kartik@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1049898|Enable MinT for Wikipedia readers MVP on a set of pilot wikis (T363465)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-27T07:06:36Z] <kartik@deploy1002> kartik: Backport for [[gerrit:1049898|Enable MinT for Wikipedia readers MVP on a set of pilot wikis (T363465)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-27T07:18:27Z] <kartik@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1049898|Enable MinT for Wikipedia readers MVP on a set of pilot wikis (T363465)]] (duration: 14m 19s)

The option to read a machine translation shows for the languages above when searching languages on an article not available in those.