Talk:Content translation

Please provide feedback about the Content translation tool on this page.

We suggest checking the Frequently Asked Questions page first.

When reporting a bug, it will help a lot if you will indicate the following things:

• Which article were you translating and to which language
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• If you're getting any errors, please provide log from browser console if possible. To open browser console: press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac).

In case you are familiar with Phabricator, please consider reporting a bug there.

See also:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• User manual
• Content translation/V2 - updates about the new version
• Content translation/Section translation
• Highlights of Content Translation software updates (until 2017)

Just lost some hours of work because it didn't save and dosen't have a save button.

Very sad.

@GabrielRF12 Hello, thanks for flagging the issue. Could you please provide more detail:

• Which article were you translating and to which language
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• Screenshot of the error that display.
• If you're getting any errors, please provide log from browser console if possible. To open browser console: press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac).

Hello, here is some info about: Iam using google chrome Translating the "Melbourne Cup" english to portuguese. I search several times and there is no save button, the article saves automatically, but it didn't save anymore and I lost hours of work. But I will never use the translation tool here in wikipedia, rather use other forms of translation.

@GabrielRF12, sorry about this issue; I have reported it in this phabricator ticket.

I appreciate your patience.

Sometimes, when I am trying to publish an article (happened 2 times already for example on antisocial personality disorder from English to Romanian), the page just says "Saving..." continuously and doesn't save my hours of work I just put in writing the content at all. The tool just glitches out after I finish all the sections (+References and External Links/Formats). I can't do anything except leaving the page and erasing the content.

This really stressed me out as it wasted my time. I think it happens randomly, on pages that might be large.

This happened on both Chrome and Brave.

On Edge as well.

@Herigona@Wikiminds34 Hello, thanks for flagging the issue. Could you please provide more detail:

• Which article were you translating and to which language
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Hejaz vilayet from English to Czech on Edge.

Screenshot

@Wikiminds34 and @Herigona,

Sorry about this issue you are experiencing. I have reported it in this phabricator ticket.

I appreciate your patience.

OK. I have already managed to publish the article in a different way.

hello It would be helpful:

1. Do not translate content between <ref> tags

Two bugs:

1. If the whole page is not translated sometimes the formulas are misplaced.

2. some fields inside the <ref> tag disappear

Thank you Andresv.63, for reporting this. Please confirm whether this issue is still happening. If it is, can you provide the following information:

• Which article were you translating, and to which language
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• If you're getting any errors, please provide the log from the browser console. Press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac) to open the browser console

Hello, @UOzurumba (WMF)

Articles with problems in formulas: Equilateral triangle, rotation (mathematics), kernel (algebra). Translated to galician.

Browser: Chrome

Option of translator: Google translate

The problem with <ref> label is almost all translated articles.

@Andresv.63

Hello @UOzurumba (WMF), at this very moment I entered a saved partial translation of "P-adic number" and it has several formulas out of place.

Hello @UOzurumba (WMF), I will include the errors that occurred when translating page "Neighbourhood system" from English to Galician:

1. <em> tag does not translate it and stops translating the rest of the paragraph
2. in the <ref> tag it does not include the "title" field (it sometimes does not include other fields). as the Galician wiki understands <ref> with fields in English it would be useful not to touch anything that is between <ref> tags
3. When <ref> tag has a name is dupplicated and shows an error of tag with same name and repeated content.
4. internal links between wiki pages when they exist in galician leave the name of the link (internal) correctly but mistranslate the name that appears in the text (it should be the same as the internal). When they don't exist in galician, the external name is often fine, but the internal one leaves it in English (it should be the same as the external one)
5. when a page deals with a subject covered by the title the title word is repeated many times. It would be helpful to use the same word as the title in the translations

Thanks @Andresv.63

Hello @Andresv.63,

Sorry about this issue you are having. I have reported it in this phabricator ticket.

I appreciate your patience.

It says that the translation is based on a old version, but it's not. When I send it, it says "Publishing..." and not publish it.

Add the ability to filter suggestions by topic like computers and geography.

There is an issue while I am trying to publish my translation of "Clair de Lune" article from English to Kazakh languages. The following message hit whenever I am trying to publish.

I use Microsoft Edge Browser, and I do not use "Google Translate" instead "Copy Original Content" as method. I have translated whole page to 100%. There is no significant changes into text, simple translation.

Following issue regarding to browser console:

Mismatch in restored translation has progress. Saved progress was: {"any":1,"mt":0.84,"human":0.16000000000000003}

I have tried to change methods of translation, but it didn't help.

Otherwise translation is really good made by me. What can I do?

@Nafpeg

Менде де сондай ақау шығып тұр. Мен де бір мақаланы қазақ тіліне аударғым келген еді. Алайды ешбір жерде бұл сұрақтың жауабын таба алар емеспін(((

It*s no possibel to translate!. Please Help us. Where ist the Biographie from Charles Maetching? She is disapered. Desaparecio la hoja con la biografia de Charles Maetching

Bandau išversti straipsnį Vikipedijos,bet man neišverčia.

Hello @Apaštalai12,

It will help a lot if you will indicate the following things:

• Which article were you translating and to which language
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• If you're getting any errors, please provide log from browser console if possible. To open browser console: press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac). Thank you!

When I am translating a English page into Bengali, the big tables not translate they remain same as the source. please do something, it takes much time to translate tables manually.

I want to translate the Chinese language article 人權宣言 1977 but prohibited from posting due to community restriction. Is there a way of getting into the community and show them my translation?

Hello, thanks for flagging the issue. Could you please provide more detail:

• Which article were you translating and to which language
• Which browser did you use (Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• Screenshot of the error that display.
• If you're getting any errors, please provide log from browser console if possible. To open browser console: press Ctrl+Shift+j (or cmd+alt+J () on a Mac).

If this is about enwiki, you should be able to publish your translation as a draft. See also w:Wikipedia:Content translation tool.