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considered unacceptable by English Knowledge's standards. Estimates are that, before machine translation was turned off, 95% of articles created with this tool were unacceptable without significant additional work. Additionally, other issues with the tool, such as poor markup and mangled references, were common. A list of affected pages can be seen at
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assists users in translating existing Knowledge articles from one language to another. Users select an article in any language, then select another language, and the interface provides machine translation which the human user can then use as inspiration to make readable text in another language.
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Due to a configuration error, between at least 11 December 2015 and 26 July 2016, this tool was using machine translation from the source language to English. The user was then expected to check and fix the translation before publication. Unfortunately, a high proportion of these articles were
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users. This access is automatically applied to extended confirmed users (editors who have been registered for at least 30 days and have made at least 500 edits to the English Knowledge, or have been manually granted extended confirmed rights by an administrator after making a
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In 2016, the community talked about developing a process whereby trusted editors would be able to gain access to this tool. The community also intended to develop a venue where less experienced editors could submit translations for evaluation before being published in the
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Raw or lightly edited machine translations have long been considered by the English Knowledge community to be worse than nothing. Articles translated without adaptations are often unsourced or badly sourced, which violates our
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Extended confirmed users can enable the content translation tool by clicking on the blue button at the top of this page in the nutshell description, labeled "Go to Special:ContentTranslation" and then choosing the link for
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The Content translation tool is a beta feature that provides a framework for translating pages from one Knowledge to another. Both the software and the community expectations for this tool are still under development.
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Users should be familiar with the target language. Also, they should not publish the machine translation as is, but should proofread the translation, which usually contains strange wording and errors.
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Use of the content translation tool for machine translations from the English Knowledge into other projects is controlled by the destination projects.
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This utility is currently suspended for newer editors on the English Knowledge. This restriction does not impact translating pages
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The English Knowledge community has restricted article creation by the WMF's semi-automatic content translation tool to
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Pages created prior to 27 July 2016 used to be evaluated for speedy deletion under now deprecated temporary criterion
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may be used as a venue for less experienced editors to submit translations for evaluation.
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General information about the content translation tool from MediaWiki.org
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The Knowledge Content Translation Tool celebrates 100,000 translations
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for the first appearance of the "Worse than nothing" language.
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Why machine translation is disabled in content translation
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Knowledge:Administrators' noticeboard 22:17, 26 July 2016
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Knowledge:Administrators' noticeboard 03:30, 28 July 2016
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Help:Translation § Avoid unedited machine translations
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The following logs are related to the CXT extension:
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Shortcuts
WP:CXT
WP:CX
Go to Special:ContentTranslation
Knowledge:Translation
Babel: user templates
Translators
Quick translation needed
Featured articles in
other languages

Meta Translation of the Week
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content translation tool
extended confirmed
request
machine translation
User:ToThAc/CXT list
main namespace
WP:AFC
Try it now!
beta features of your preferences
Help:Translation § Avoid unedited machine translations
verifiability policy
notability
WP:X2
Edit filter 782 action log
Special:NewPages feed
Special:RecentChanges feed
Extension statistics

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