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Translating Wikipedia articles with Content Translation

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Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages https://t.co/jHRia1dpCT

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An initial impact analysis of @Wikimedia's self hosted machine translation service - MinT:

Supports 206 languages. Increased translated articles, with low deletion rate. Now the second most utilized translation service.

https://t.co/Ya6NIpDVvi

[Santhosh Thottingal @santhoshtr]

Introducing sentencex library for multilingual sentence extraction.

Available as python and javascript library.

Blog post: https://t.co/utQKQymrOH

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NLLB200, OpusMT, Softcatalà and IndicTrans2 are the current backend models used. This expands our machine translation support to large set of languages.

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Wikimedia Foundation announced a new machine translation service to support more underserved languages. Named as MinT, this service uses multiple opensource neural machine translation models and provides a unified interface. https://t.co/B0DMtQlV3n

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This will be available as a machine translation option in the Content Translation tool

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

In July, we launched No Language Left Behind to more languages in @Wikimedia’s Content Translation tool that helps Wikipedia editors jumpstart article translation — a new report is already showing encouraging impact on usage & translation quality ➡️ https://t.co/OHAP22YLbZ

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Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles

https://t.co/JgHAtNGSig

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Our goal is to bring the sum of all knowledge to everyone, everywhere, in their language, at no cost.

On this #InternationalTranslationDay, let's talk about one of the tools that's helping us get there. https://t.co/izx14l8RKj

[Santhosh Thottingal @santhoshtr]

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation is now available https://t.co/91iQ9c52n6

It has a project paper "OPUS-MT – Building open translation services for the World" authored by @TiedemannJoerg and me.

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The Content Translation tool helped creating 600000 wikipedia articles using translations so far.

Thanks a lot for you contributions!

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We added another machine translation system - OpusMT - an opensource neural machine translation system based on open corpus project(OPUS). The neural machine translation is powered by MarianNMT.

Currently available for English->Assamese on experimental basis.

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The Wikipedia article on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still missing in several languages, maybe you can help translating it: https://t.co/kxxyy2PRZy #WikiForHumanRights

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@aharoni @UoMEandD_Sarah @wikiscientists @wikimediauk Translations? We translated 31 women's articles into English to celebrate #adalovelaceday / month. We tweeted a few of them with the tag #AnAdaADay. Lots of others here too in one of our current editathons (on-line)
https://t.co/rOYPR3vZSL
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The 500,000th @Wikipedia article published using Content Translation is about the French football team Drouais, and it was translated from English to Vietnamese by user Vokaanhduy.

@FCDrouais
https://t.co/T6sCmuBoou

[Runa / রুণা @runa_b]

Half a million is an overwhelming number of #Wikipedia articles to write. That is precisely what has been done by the wonderful Wikipedia editors using the Content Translation tool. Thank you! Here is a video from when the 100000th article was written: https://t.co/oLZFvo6iPI

[Santhosh Thottingal @santhoshtr]

Wikipedia added half a million new articles using its article translation system in last 4 years, to its language editions.

My team at Wikimedia foundation is so proud and thanks every translators for this achievement.
@Wikimedia @WhatToTranslate

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Kudos to @sarojdhakal for completing the localization of the @mediawiki Content Translation extension into #Nepali!

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Translating Wikipedia pages into a local language in Ghana

https://t.co/D9Iajtj9UH

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You are welcome!

- Wikimedia Language Team (developers of what we call Compact Language Links). Read more here: https://t.co/qVZ1wma7rn

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Reading in the Original https://t.co/xNoXbjpAfd https://t.co/e9NjCIDz4r

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Watch the Language Showcase to learn about machine translation use in #ContentTranslation to create @Wikipedia articles: https://t.co/dhZDOL2YHa