Topic on Talk:Content translation

I am requesting the Content Translation Tool to be enabled for the Tumbuka Wikipedia (tumwiki). The tool seems to be available but does not do anything. When paired to en-tum to start translating, it just pastes the original text from source without bothering to translate it.

I have reviewed (tested) the Wikimedia test instance translator (MinT) that is currently being implemented based on 200-NLLB, and it just translates well English to Tumbuka (en-tum), with no issues so far. This was done using both long and short paragraphs, and carefully checked each sentence for some errors including literal translation issues. The translation quality is closer to someone with level 4 of understanding Tumbuka language (thus, Babel: tum-4).

So, once the tool is enabled, it will attract more natives to contribute to Wikipedia, thereby building a solid community that is willing to share knowledge of free with everyone. It will also make this small wiki grow.

The tool needs to be enabled as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Thanks for your feedback, @Tumbuka Arch.

We are working to expand the machine translation support for more languages using NLLB-200 soon. When planning for the next languages to enable, we give priority to those where communities showed interest, and those where there is some evidence of good machine translaiton quality. So your feedback has been really useful for planning accordingly.

I captured your request in the ticket linked above to make sure it can be enabled as soon as possible.

Thanks for your interest in the tool and for your efforts to get better support for your language!

@Pginer-WMF Thank you so much. The community will be very happy if the tool is enabled, as this works as a starting point especially when dealing with long articles.