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Set Google machine translation option as default in the Content Translation tool on Kannada Wikipedia
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Disable MinT and Yandex machine translation services in the Content Translation tool on Kannada Wikipedia

Google translation
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more accurate translation
Mint translation
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around 70% accurate translation and not rendering references properly
Yandex translation
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less than 70% accurate translation

There also similar reported for Metawiki T348361: Disable MinT translation tool on meta

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Change #1122089 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anzx; author: Anzx):

[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] knwiki: disable MinT and Yandex machine translation services

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1122089

The MT model that MinT uses is indictrans2 model. It was released 2 years back and not getting updates. But Google is actively updating their MT system and it is getting better. While the actual details of its technology is not open, given the LLM advancements, I expect their system is based on LLMs(or distillations).

Instead of disabling MinT altogether, we have the option of making Google as default choice. Currently MinT is the default one - https://cxserver.wikimedia.org/v1/list/mt/en/kn

The MT model that MinT uses is indictrans2 model. It was released 2 years back and not getting updates. But Google is actively updating their MT system and it is getting better. While the actual details of its technology is not open, given the LLM advancements, I expect their system is based on LLMs(or distillations).

Instead of disabling MinT altogether, we have the option of making Google as default choice. Currently MinT is the default one - https://cxserver.wikimedia.org/v1/list/mt/en/kn

Thanks for sharing your input, I have already added patch to remove Mint and Yandex translation from wiki as both seem redundant to keep on wiki, i have updated it to make Google translate option default

Change #1122089 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/services/cxserver@master] knwiki: make google translate option default

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1122089

Anoop renamed this task from Disable MinT and Yandex machine translation services in the Content Translation tool on Kannada Wikipedia to Set Google machine default in the Content Translation tool on Kannada Wikipedia.Feb 28 2025, 4:53 AM
Anoop renamed this task from Set Google machine default in the Content Translation tool on Kannada Wikipedia to Set Google machine translation option as default in the Content Translation tool on Kannada Wikipedia.

Change #1123940 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; author: KartikMistry):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] Update cxserver to 2025-03-03-041049-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1123940

Change #1123940 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/deployment-charts@master] Update cxserver to 2025-03-03-041049-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1123940