Progress update 29 March: We're very close to having a stable draft ready for the feedback/input cycle planned. The "related work" and "exploring key questions" sections have come along nicely and are just missing a subsection or two. The recommendations subsections will provide a considerable starting point for conversation during the feedback cycle and we look forward to reviewers' input. We're still coordinating with Nathan for the outreach/feedback cycle to begin with a tentative target date of 8 April.

Providing some updates on progress

• "Introduction" section appears relatively stable at this point
• Work continues on "related work" and "exploring key questions" sections
• Have generated and drafted a number of recommendations for researchers and Wikipedians for the "recommendations" section
• Coordinating with Nathan on the outreach and communication plan, and have begun generating targeted questions for feedback during this process

(I've avoided using section numbers here only because moving original section 3 to future work (now section 5) has affected numbering; however, none of the sections have changed content-wise from the skeleton that was shared some weeks back with ArbCom.)

Finished various administrative project close out tasks, including updating the meta project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:MinT_(Machine_in_Translation)_Research.

New project to add, see details in this comment. Thank you!

Second shareout of results completed on 15Feb. Aim to complete project close out tasks next, including updating meta page and uploading reports to commons.

• First of two shareouts was completed on 25Jan with opportunity for the team to review additional materials on their own afterwards and leave any comments/questions to address further.
• Working on completing and refining second report which will be shared on 15Feb.
• Beginning to update meta page with results and summaries

Analysis is underway and we're working on reporting ahead of shareouts scheduled with the Language Team for 25Jan and 15Feb.

Phase 2 research sessions completed

Completed second round of phase 1 research sessions. Eli presented a highlight of preliminary results with the research team. As of 15Dec phase 2 research sessions are underway.

Completed first round of phase 1 research sessions, including interim reporting which was used to update prototype concepts. Second round of phase 1 research sessions are underway as of today.

Research sessions and data collection underway.

Research materials (i.e., protocols/discussion guides) are finalized. We are currently scheduling sessions, and still need to fill some remaining ones, particularly those reserved for current Hindi and Awadhi contributors. Research sessions begin this week.

Recruitment outreach is ongoing and we're in the process of preparing research session protocols and discussion guides.

Recruitment screener written, privacy policy, and recruitment query drafted. Meeting with partner next week to review upcoming logistics and create materials such as protocols and additional screeners.

A research partner has been identified and we're waiting for the contracting process to complete. In the meantime, prep work for recruitment has begun.

Project details, especially results, are available on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Translatable_Pages_Research

We've finished coding the Chinese data and compiling examples. Chinese coding took a bit longer than anticipated due to some adaptations needed and investigation into MT services. Ready for this data to be merged with the other languages in order to complete analysis and reporting.

Hi Megan, thanks for checking in. Yes, we can consider this resolved, I
don't think anything else will be needed. Thanks for your collaboration on
this!
Eli

Working on Indonesian and Albanian right now while we begin coding the Chinese data.

Final language, Chinese, is underway. All coding is complete for Indonesian and Albanian.

Hi there, yes, we've finally gotten started on the Chinese and after cleaning the data we were left with sufficient numbers. I think we can mark this task as resolved. Thanks again for your help!

Fully underway for Indonesian and Albanian as of 17May.

Complete for 2 of 3 languages (Indonesian and Albanian). We decided to get the analysis underway with these 2 languages before starting on the third (Chinese).

@mpopov and I met 26April to discuss a solution to the gsheets cell character limit problem encountered. Thanks for your time and help with this!

Hi @mpopov , just wanted to check in on this ticket. I'm in the process of onboarding the language consultants who will be helping with this work, so we're expecting to start soon. Depending on where you are with the task, I had a couple thoughts about organization that I was wondering if I could run by you if you don't mind me proposing a short meeting on your calendar. Thank you