Content Translation is currently supported by [[ https://www.apertium.org | Apertium ]].
Machine translation (MT) really helps to speed up the translation process [[ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/29/round-table-with-editors-from-the-catalan-wikipedia/ | as reported by users ]] for which MT is provided . Users of languages without MT support ask for their languages to be supported, and even created gadgets (based on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Endo999/GoogleTrans#Integration_With_Wikipedia_Beta_Translation_System:_Now_In_Production_Version_Of_Gadget | Google ]] and [[ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8#YandexTrans_gadget | Yandex ]] translation services ) for integrating additional translation services with the tool.
In order to support more languages than those provided by Apertium, we may want to integrate an additional translation service.
Extending the support for Machine translation in Content Translation is often requested. I compiled some of those requests from the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation | Content Translation discussion page ]] to provide a better overview:
- **Russian**
-- "Hello, I need English to Russian machine pretranslation, yet it is absent." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Smwzuq4xz4w1b8jq | view ]])
-- "Why doesn't it work for english-russian translation?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sjhe92bpgdhjn22h | view ]])
-- "can this extension use other engines? Сan we now take it and turn it on ru.wikipedia.org but adding localy translator yandex and/or google?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:S6odhi4mktcf7lfg | view ]])
-- "there is no machine translator for russian" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Spjjvcg6tdpetota | view ]])
- **French.**
-- "traduction automatique en francais" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sh1qoaacfdjhw8ow | view ]])
-- "la version bêta du traducteur prend elle en charge la traduction de english vers français ?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sgcyooysjf4w0hla | view ]])
-- "I've just tried to translate a few pages from English and various languages into French but it says that automatic translation is not available for French." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sfn1c8dwwzjv955y | view ]])
- **German.**
-- "Another, already mentioned, issue is the inability to use the automatic machine translation feature for English to German." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sl9eldxfawzpbcc0 | view ]])
-- "No machine translation available. This is not a big deal for a short article, but for a longer article I would find machine translation very useful as a starting point." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sjygwdakenzl5tyg | view ]])
-- "But I would like to have an automatic translation to work on. " (from Dutch) ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Skli94we9g8npo9h | view ]])
- **English.**
-- "fr -> en" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Skwr9y7h1ut494o8 | view ]])
-- "Doesn't work at all. "Not available" for German to English" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Slbr0u51miueqag6 | view ]])
- **Hindi.**
-- "the original english text is only getting pasted over there with an error in right window that Machine Translation is not available in Hindi (यांत्रिक अनुवाद हिंदी में उपलब्ध नहीं है.). So, just wanted to know When translation is not available then why the tool is available in my preferences?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sief9s50rnk6blzi | view ]])
-- "good news is that it is working fine on hiwiki but its machine translation is not working (you may check)" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Shkylqi6v9cko2qw&topic_showPostId=shuk2kohym1aedji#flow-post-shuk2kohym1aedji | view ]])
- **Ukranian.**
-- "For some reason, translation from Spanish to Ukrainian does not work. Please enable the feature." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Siqd9fie0bcxd55t | view ]])
-- "Russian to Ukranian" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sfjrkxe0sz2lozt1 | view ]])
- **Turkish.**
-- "English-Turkish translation is also useless." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sjhe92bpgdhjn22h&topic_showPostId=sjiua29y5ascqck5#flow-post-sjiua29y5ascqck5 | view ]])
-- "This beta feature experience said. But it failed to translate any article." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sh43i6fhhycg5x6k | view ]])
- **Polish**
-- ":(" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Si5u0n6kxbpb2lkw | view ]])
-- Detailed observations from Halibutt ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ssc44vvglrc7gue6 | view ]])
- **Albanian.**
-- "can you please add machine translation for Albanian (sq.wikipedia)? I have checked the translation quality [ EN > SQ, in Yandex Translation], and I believe it would be of substantial help if it is enabled." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:St8vrhelu84p16ki | view ]])
- **Finnish.**
-- "no machine translation being available, there is no interest in loading the English into the translation field" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Som359tdyp7n7vzb | view ]])
- **Vietnamese.**
-- "when I switched to Vietnamese language, I cannot see translated text. There is only English one." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sojd7wmaqjlaro5i | view ]])
- **Japanese.**
-- "It seems automatic Japanese translation is not supported at this time." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sm6aiswbfgupxw13 | view ]])
- **Korean**
-- "Please add machine translation pairs Japanese/Korean and Korean/Japanese. These two share very similar grammar and accuracy of MT is very good." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation/Languages#MT_request:_Japanese_to_Korean_and_vice_versa | view ]])
- **Italian.**
-- "English -> Italian translation don't work" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sktly994kyaapmoc | view ]])
- **Serbian.**
-- "Why don't add serbian language, use Google Translate, why using some other-side Apertium?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sn6m8tkxrnutqmnb | view ]])
- **Slovak**
-- "I wanted to try this new tool on some small translation from Czech [...], simply it doesn't want to translate it" (personal message from skwiki contributor)
- **Arabic.**
-- "Auto translation not working for Arabic Language" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sn83082ezj4ttper | view ]])
- **Konkani**
-- "I translated an article from English to GOM (Konkani) and it doesn't seem to get uploaded." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Slbuqeoq0mctd7ge | view ]])
- **Welsh.**
-- "Without Machine Translation, this tool is an electric drill with no power. When will it be turned on, please?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Siybyx9hazn9mtsu | view ]])
- **Nepali.**
-- "Thanks for enabling content translation in Nepali , is there a way machine translation could be enabled too ?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Siluy07qdqh5qqkr | view ]])
- **Belarusian.**
-- "Thanks, it works now. But now it tells that machine translation is not available. What is needed to turn it on?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Shu4rmnrunortxk7&topic_showPostId=sifdk9nkh9w6brw9#flow-post-sifdk9nkh9w6brw9 | view ]])
- ** Amharic.**
-- "The tool has a great UI and works as expected. Although machine translation into Amharic is not currently possible" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Shtw41uxjn2iz0sg | view ]])
- **Armenian.**
-- "Could you please add one of machine translation services which is also available for Armenian (Yandex or Google translate)?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sgvlnodyedgo9de4 | view ]])
- **Czech.**
-- "I have found there is no machine translation to or from Czech language supported yet" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sgcrxnx7x3rhnyox | view ]])
- **Danish.**
-- "English to Danish" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sbogcnz3n2qrlxmq | view ]])
- **Portuguese**
-- "translate from english to other languages too, especially portuguese" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:S5ho8rxv81bknrs2 | view ]])
- **Spanish**
-- "I translated some things from English to Spanish [...] The machine translation is terribly bad (bad verb conjugations, traslation too literal, and more)." ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Soz8jxfrgf6vp1oz | view ]])
- **Bashkir**
-- [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sst83eh40jif9nqi | A request (written in Russian) to enable translation to Bashkir using Yandex. ]]
- **Persian**
-- "Our community is interested on having Yandex translation enabled for Content Translation" (T125118)
- **General**
-- "Machine translation is really difficult. Why not using Google Translate?" ([[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Soz1tz7dpmfh48p7 | view ]])