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I've just spent the last 3 hours translating a page and when I clicked publish the site locked up. Upon reloading, all my progress was erased!
I don't think I'll ever try translating anything ever again.
(translating en:Token (railway signalling) to portuguese, using Firefox 127.0.1)
I find out that I must publish the translation once I finish translating the page. Otherwise, if i put it there for a few days, the error will comes out and stop me from publishing.
The Cantonese language has been added to Google Translator, and it translates very well (compared to previous translators). Could you add to "Content translation"?
Hello, you can see this reply from the WMF language team phab:T304865#9938738.
If we create a translated version of a page, is there a way to have a flag included on the new page when the page it comes from is changed? So that they can be kept in sync?
Iam having a hard time translating a Wikipedia page, first time I tried to translate the page it worked fine but then when I wanted to continue I just can't the translation section just loads forever with nothing showing
I'm currently translating an article from MedWiki, but I've been unable to publish it. I keep getting a message warning me about inappropriate content. The warning reads, 'Automatic editing filters have identified problematic content in your translation. Details: Possible inappropriate content related to the human body'. I'd love to get this issue figured out, please advise.
I used Google translate and the translation is perfect with very minor edits such as punctation, yet Wiki won' t accept it because it contains 98% of the original text... It is a fucking translation! What did you expect, you fucking morons? A new text? A fucking novel? Get a fucking grip!
Hey @Jjlasne. I'm replying here not as a representative of the team who built this function (I can take no credit for the tool, which I've never worked on), but as an administrator of mediawiki.org.
I see that you've never written on any talk page on English Wikipedia or French Wikipedia, the two Wikipedias where your user has been active, so I'd like to point you to civility as one of the core pillars of Wikipedia. People need to be able to disagree and talk to each other without every disagreement turning into an ugly conflict. Calling others "fucking morons" is pretty far outside (see Code of Conduct).
(As for the reason: The Wikipedia editing communities have been concerned about users not checking their translation, but posting substandard machine translations. This adds a significant burden on people who spend their spare time trying to clean up the wikis from spam, vandalism and mistakes. While I'm sure this is frustrating, this solution has been put into place because the alternative has been considered worse by the people who have to deal with the effects of the tool – it's there because it addresses a different problem, and there's no magical solution which will always work perfectly. In the best of worlds, people wouldn't just go ahead and post unchecked, unedited machine translations, and this would be unnecessary. However, that's not the world we live in.)
Still frustrated about the whole process so I will never contribute again since it is all worthless, time-consuming and non-sensical. Anyway, I expect machines to do much better in the near future and finally get rid of the human element which as one can see/read can be so emotional.
"You cannot post translations, this wiki is restricted to more experienced editors posting translations".
I got this message after trying to post a translated article in Chinese.
I have already posted it in Japanese; who knows why I can't post it in Chinese?
I would appreciate any feedback.
Thank you!
The Chechen language has been added to Google Translator, and it translates very well. Could you add to "Content translation"?
I support. This will greatly help the translation, since Wikipedia has very precise definitions.
Thank you all, for your feedback. Google has not updated these new languages in the Google translate API.
계속해서 이런 경고가 뜨고 번역이 게시되지 않습니다. 어디서 어떤 문제가 발생했는지 확인할 수 없습니다. 어떻게 해결해야하나요? 번역 내용의 문제는 없다고 생각각됩니다.
Hello Njkcs478,
The problem you are having is coming from the Edit filters. They are defined by each Wikipedia community, and they affect all kinds of content, not only pages created with Content Translation. You can see your actions that tripped the edit filter here.
