With the integration of the new version of IndicTrans2 model into MinT (T352690) it is possible to translate across 22 Indic languages. Currently MinT is provided as optional in Content Translation for those languages where Google Translate is the default service.
This ticket proposes to make MinT the default service for these languages. This will expose to users an open source service by default, while still allowing users to switch to other services if they prefer them. User feedback and analysis of future re-runs of [the machine translation usage report](https://jovian.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fwikimedia-research%2Fmachine-translation-service-analysis-2022%2Fblob%2Fmain%2Fmt_service_comparison_Nov2023_update.ipynb) will determine whether the change was useful and whether to revert it until future improvements of MinT or apply it to more languages in the future.
This is the list of languages:
# Assamese (as/asm_Beng)
- Bangla (bn/ben_Beng)
- Bodo (brx/brx_Deva) !!No wiki yet!!
- Dogri (doi/doi_Deva) !!No wiki yet!!
- Goan (gom/gom_Deva)
- Gujarati (gu/guj_Gujr)
- Hindi (hi/hin_Deva)
- Kannada (kn/kan_Knda)
- Kashmiri (ks/kas_Arab & kas_Deva)
- Maithili (mai/mai_Deva)
- Malayalam (ml/mal_Mlym)
- Manipuri (mni/mni_Beng & mni_Mtei)
- Marathi (mr/mar_Deva)
- Nepali (ne/npi_Deva)
- Oriya (or/ory_Orya)
- Panjabi (pa/pan_Guru)
- Sanskrit (sa/san_Deva)
- Santali (sat/sat_Olck)
- Sindhi (sd/snd_Arab & snd_Deva)
- Tamil (ta/tam_Taml)
- Telugu (te/tel_Telu)
- Urdu (ur/urd_Arab)