Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Translation/Add DeepL as a machine translation option in ContentTranslation
Add DeepL as a machine translation option in ContentTranslation
- Problem: Content translation allows pre-filling the text using machine translation provided by either Google Translate or Yandex Translate. This is better than nothing, but the quality of their translations is poor.
- Proposed solution: Add DeepL (https://www.deepl.com/) as a machine translation option. In my experience their output is much better than the other two, although they only support 24 languages. Probably make it the default for the supported languages, too. Human review is still required, but I think this will reduce the effort spent on fixing boring things, e.g. correcting the pronouns in languages with gendered nouns.
- Who would benefit: Translators to/from 24 languages
- More comments: (I've mostly used it when translating English to Polish, also occasionally for various languages to English, and their result was the best almost every time I tried comparing with the other websites.)
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T301561
- Proposer: Matma Rex (talk) 03:39, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- 100% agree! I came here to propose the same. In my experience DeepL is really better than Google T. Javiermes (talk) 11:58, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
- How does licensing work for this? I know there was a special arrangement worked out for Google Translate. czar 23:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Czar I researched it out of curiosity. The terms of use for DeepL's paid services [1] state that "DeepL does not assume any copyrights to the translations made by Customer using the Products", so there is probably no licensing problem. (Also, I found this page about our Google Translate arrangement with a bit more detail than the page you linked.) Matma Rex (talk) 00:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
Support Javiermes (talk) 19:23, 28 January 2022 (UTC)- Support It's the highest-quality machine translation out there. Would be great. Femke (talk) 19:37, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Lahmenfurst (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nad.roz (talk) 22:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Izno (talk) 00:02, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Edigodiuss (talk) 02:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Shizhao (talk) 04:02, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ottawajin (talk) 06:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support 𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 07:19, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Curios7ty (talk) 08:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support +1 Afernand74 (talk) 08:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Sajbadina (talk) 10:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Oppose risk of multiplication of automatic translation (even good) without human review too hight Triton (talk) 11:23, 29 January 2022 (UTC)- Support Terber (talk) 11:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nardog (talk) 14:32, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aca (talk) 15:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Likibp (talk) 15:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — Omnilaika02 (talk) 19:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Vincent Simar (talk) 21:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support It's my preferred translator for bulk text, requiring minimal corrections during review. DeepL's quality is noticeable. I'm very pleased using it to translate text from English to Lithuanian (my native language) compared to Google Translator, which often comes short. Kunigas Michailas (talk) 22:54, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Added a question above czar 23:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Tgr (talk) 00:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ali Imran Awan (talk) 07:18, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Lectrician1 (talk) 07:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 08:28, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
