Ah, yes it worked ----aaaaaah .. just not:

Hi Paul, can you help out in the wikipedia preferences where people can invoke your google translate gadget? :)
Go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets
We have that issue too that when people checkmark that feature, that their cursor jumps to the starting point of the paragraph and a yellow-ocre window popsup and translates the first word. :)
Thy and greetings from the wikipedia :)

Yep have that google trans checked in my wikipedia preferences. And indeed unchecking it solved this issue of a yellow-ocre window popping up with a google translate feature translating the first word in the beginning of the paragraph to where my cursor jumps.

Correct, I have been experiencing this when editing wikipedia articles for years (now 2022 february) so probably from 2017 when it was signalled here. I was using a Macbook Pro 2009, it happened in all my browsers if I recollect well: chrome, firefox, safari.