On the mobile editor of Section Translation, the uggested translaiton card remains loading indefinitely when the translation service fails. This has been noticed for Meitei/Manipuri which is one of the languages for which Google Translate announced its support (T308248) but it is not working yet (T314557). However, this can be an opportunity to make the integration more reliable and avoid similar issues when the translation services fail for different reasons (e.g., server down, network glitch, etc.).
This ticket proposes to:
- Communicate the issue explicitly.
- Provide relevant actions as follow-ups for the user:
- Retry.
- Use another option. This will provide access to the list of MT options where users can try a different service, or start from the source/scratch.
**Design details**
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**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable):
* From a mobile device click the [[ https://test.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&from=en&to=mni&sx=true#/ | Section translation test instance ]]
* Choose the Manipuri language and select one of the suggested articles to start translation.
**What happens?**:
After choosing an article to start translating, the interface begins to load endlessly as shown in the screenshot below.
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**What should have happened instead?**:
This ticket proposes to:
It is supposed to load the suggested machine translation- Communicate the issue explicitly.
- Provide relevant actions as follow-ups for the user to either try again or select a different option (MT services, and then you can click on "Edit translation" to modify the initial machine translation.
**Software version** (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):or start from the source/scratch)
**Design details**
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**Other information** (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):