As part of MinT for Wikipedia Readers MVP (T359072), this ticket proposes to create a home for machine translation to provide basic access to machine translated versions of Wikipedia articles. This landing page allows users to start the selection of a page to translate and the language pair for the translation.
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# Design details
This step includes the following elements:
- **Header.** The robot icon and the "Automatic translation" label serves as a header to communicate the functionality. This is integrated into the current skin. In the example we can see how the mobile (Minerva) skin is used with the general navigation header showing at the top.
- **Search bar.** Access to the search input will lead users to the next step of the search workflow ({T359494}). "Search for a topic" is used as placeholder. See the [SearchInput Codex component](https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/components/demos/search-input.html).
- **Language pair.** Two actions allow to select a specific source and target language in case the user wants to specify it in advance. Both will open the standard language selector.
- The source language selector allows to select any language for which there is a Wikipedia with an additional "All" option which is the default to support users to search in any language.
- The target selector allows to select any language supported by MinT, including those for which there is no Wikipedia yet.
- **Info panel.** Provides general information about the topics available to help establish a better understanding of multilingualism on Wikipedia and provides an option to select a random article leading directly to the "Confirm" step.
- **Random topic action**. The "Random topic" action will lead the user to the "Confirm" step with a random article pre-selected. If possible, the same algorithm/API used on the wikis. This could be based on the [Special:Random](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) where the specific Wikipedia language to request the random page is also randomized. Alternatively we can consider the [Random item](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Random/Main) function from Wikidata (but making sure that a Wikipedia article exists for the selected topic).
Generic version:
> Millions of topics on Wikipedia can be automatically translated into <target-language>.
When a language different than "All" is the source:
> X million topics form ,source-language> Wikipedia can be automatically translated into <target-language>.
# Additional considerations
- A new special page which will be initially only available on mobile and on a testing environment (test/beta Wikipedia).
For more details:
- [View in Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/RTBmXJ4ZGmhPoNP1nlnm5C/MinT-for-Readers-MVP?type=design&node-id=195%3A5478&mode=design&t=SQ8jSuRFV6HTheHr-1)
- Check parent ticket: {T359072}