Topic on Talk:Content translation/Flow

The question is in the heading. I have translated a few articles and I cannot publish them right away (I guess I don't have permission to do this yet). So when will these translations become public?

Thanks for the feedback, @O.gruzins.

The ability to publish does not depend on time. These are the most common reasons you may not be able to publish and what can it be done in each case:

• Unmodified contents. Publishing is prevented when the initial machine translation is not edited enough based in certain limits. If your translation does not consist mostly (99% or more) of just machine translation or have more than 50 paragraphs with more than 85% of unmodified contents, you should be able to publish. For some languages such as Indonesian, Telugu and Assamese, the threshold for the overall translation has been adjusted to 70% instead of 99%.
• Community edit filters. Each community can define a set of automatic edit filters. These apply to all contents created on that specific wiki, including those created with Content Translation. These filters are based on rules defined by editors of a particular Wikipedia. They are defined to prevent vandalism, but they may result in some false positives and prevent valid contributions by accident. You can report issues with edit filters in the corresponding discussion forums of the community. Similarly, if your user is blocked for creating new articles, you won't be allowed to do so either using Content Translation.
• Additional community limitations. Some communities like English Wikipedia have limited the publication of articles with Content translation to those users with more than 500 edits on English Wikipedia. You can find more details about this restriction and some alternatives you can consider.
• Bugs in Content translation. The tool can fail to publish for different reasons. Given the diversity of wiki contents, some issues could happen when processing a particular type of content. Maybe some of the different software components the tool integrates has changed or is unavailable, and breaks some part of the process.

We can only fix an issue if we understand where it is coming from. For that investigation it is very useful to know the article and languages you were trying to translate, any warning or error messages shown by the tool (including those shown in the Javascript console), and any other relevant aspect of your system.

Thanks!