Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Archive/Translation Improvement Needed

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Translation Improvement Needed

N Outside the scope of Community Tech

• Problem: There are several pages which are untranslated. Sometimes it is needed to use Google Translator which is not so well for readers.
• Who would benefit: Instant readers who have no time to copy-paste for Microsoft Bing Translator.
• Proposed solution: An option is needed to show where readers can choose an option from external translators drop-down box.
• More comments: Bing is better than Google. Translation must be done within sections and/or the article, not to the whole pages.
• Phabricator tickets:
• Proposer: Ssudipta (talk) 19:20, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

• Are you able to read other languages using Browsers' translators? Have you got the article in your desired language form another one? I am tired to understand the translation by Google than Bing. Ssudipta (talk) 19:20, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

  See mw:Help:Content translation/Translating/Initial machine translation. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:41, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

• This boils down to a need for licensing and/or a contract with Bing, which unfortunately Community Tech can't help with. Sorry! Thanks for participating in the survey, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 19:09, 4 December 2020 (UTC)