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:
- **Search bar.** Access to the search input will lead users to the next step of the search workflow. "Search for a topic" is used as placeholder.
- **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}