Bringing languages closer to enrich each other
in all languages
Our goal with Wikimedia projects is to provide access to the sum of all human knowledge
Language is a barrier for many users
Projects and impact
Selecting the right language
Searching for your language every time is not fun
This harms especially small languages
Compact language links
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Reaching your usual languages easily is the big time saver
(there are also improvements for 1st time use)
Results
Available in almost* all wikis
If you moved across 2 wikis it’s very likely you’ve used it
* In German and English Wikipedias—as a beta feature
For each wiki, we analysed
both directions
Traffic across languages has increased 90%
June 2016 (before deployment) compared to June 2017
Improvements in both small and big wikis
French | 25% | Portuguese | 101% |
Dutch | 51% | Turkish | 442% |
Swedish | 82% | Indonesian | 458% |
Spanish | 63% | Danish | 377% |
Growth in clicks on interlanguage links
Improvements in both small and big wikis
Afrikaans | 113% | Czech | 127% |
Esperanto | 189% | Norwegian | 217% |
Alemannic | 100% | Albanian | 329% |
Ukrainian | 177% | Kurdish | 135% |
Growth in arriving to a wiki using an interlanguage link
Next steps
Questions about language selection?
Translating articles
Translation was a complex manual effort
Content translation
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Results
More than� 230,000 �articles translated
Data from June 2017: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Reports/2017-June
Data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
Data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
Data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
Data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
Data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
Lower deletion ratios
(better than starting from scratch)
Helping a wide variety of users
Expert editors:
“I can now translate a 20-line article in less than 5 minutes, saving lots of time.”
From “How content translation improved my wiki edits”
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/
Expert translators:
“The Medical Translation Task Force has boosted its productivity by 17% and increased the amount of health care content...”
From “Wikipedia’s coverage of essential vaccines is expanding”
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/29/wikipedias-essential-vaccines/
New editors:
“The Tamil Wikipedia community has started promoting the usage of this tool for new editors, and we are getting 100s of quality articles in just a few days...”
From “Using Content Translation tool for new editor retention”
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2017-June/012989.html
New editors:
“...we are getting�continuous engagement and quality contributions which were not possible�before because of the long learning curve.”
From “Using Content Translation tool for new editor retention”
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2017-June/012989.html
Next steps
Content Translation milestones
July 2016
All Wikipedias
96,000 articles
2100/week
2 MT systems
Content Translation still in beta
July 2017
All Wikipedias
230,000 articles
3000/week
3 MT systems
(92 langs)
January 2016
All Wikipedias
1900/week
2 MT systems
45,000 articles
Content Translation launched
(beta)
January 2015
8 Wikipedias
1 MT system
50/week
July 2015
All Wikipedias
8,000 articles
1000/week
1 MT system
VisualEditor integration
Template translation support
Links improved
Notifications
Article suggestions
AbuseFilter validations
Questions about Content Translation?
Conclusions
Questions?
THANK YOU