Feedback for Translation of English Discussions #4373
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How/when can this be accessed via the official app? Will it be extended throughout? |
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Hi @TPS 👋🏼 Thank you for your question. We are rolling out this feature as a beta to gather feedback and learn about whether this is useful for GitHub users. Depending on feedback and usage, we may expand the feature to other parts of GitHub's platform, like Issues or README files. When you say "official app", I assume you're referring to other parts of the GitHub.com website, but please correct me if you actually meant something like the GitHub Mobile app or GitHub Desktop. |
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I also left a comment over on the GitHub Mobile feedback discussion you mentioned here. |
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@zeke I do mean the mobile apps. ETA? |
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Thanks for the clarification. As I mentioned above, we are currently gathering feedback and usage data and will use that to determine if and when we'll expand machine translation features to other GitHub products. I recommend you give the current feature a try and let us know if you think it's useful. |
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It's good |
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Woah this is really cool. Does it use Google Translate? |
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I tested some translations and looks like it uses Bing Translate. That's no surprise given the parent company is Microsoft. |
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Bing Translate is my favorite. |
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Non-english comments/discussions are pretty uncommon in my experience but this thing just saved me a couple of clicks. Would be cool if I can toggle it to be always on for any non-english content because next time, if there is no popup about it, I would probably forget that there's such a thing. |
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There should be strong warning prefixed to automatically translated text. |
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The origin language detection is buggy, as a result, the translation is useless. |
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For example when someyone replied |
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It could perhaps be informed by the various language configurations of the account submitting the comment. |
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I'm on this thread because of basically the exact same issue ( ScreenshotBTW: The image is a link to the comment where I encountered this detection issue. Edit: Looks like this example has been mentioned in this discussion several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) making this comment a little redudent. |
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Hey, I just came here to write exactly about that instance! Thanks for referencing it 😄 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/49954#discussioncomment-5335875 |
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This feature is extremely useful when moderating the discussions for large projects where some people might not be native English speakers but still want to participate while avoiding the hassle of externally translating what they said. If the comments could be translated without needing to press a button, it'd be even more useful. I'd imagine server load could be reduced if the translation is done automatically when commenting rather than later on for every instance. |
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Is it too much to hope that they someday use some reputation-based system like Duolingo, instead of simply punting to the sibling corporation? [apparently, all translations are currently from Bing's automated translation; it's mostly reasonable, although no replacement for individual professional humans] |
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Always automatically translate to English and/or the user's preferred language (and add the option to view originals) instead of having to click to translate. |
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Your parenthesized comment is important, and that option must not be easily ignorable; the last thing social networks need is pointless arguments because two people think they speak the same language. |
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It has just been fixed! |
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Amazing! Sounds like it will make project management so much easier! |
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It sure will! |
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Interesting, does it use some variant of Bing translate that ignores code quotes ``? I previously researched on translating code-heavy documents but didn't have much progress because most translation providers also translate code quotes as well (for example, it translated |
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Hola mundo |
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Sometimes English replies get translated and mostly the reason why is because of bad grammar. (Like I found in one community's discussions someone saying "no" and there being a translation and the translation only being "No" and it thinks it's spanish) |
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"No" translate to english |
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Can we please have an option to disable the option for Translation, or, even better, let GitHub know which languages I understand in my profile settings or so? There are so many bilingual people out there. Why would I ever want a translation if I can perfectly understand the original message? It's just unnecessary visual clutter. |
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I agree, you should be able to say what languages you understand so that translations don't show then. |
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+1 |
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There are even companies specialising in helping you help the folks whose lingualities don't cover the entire conversation, although I'm not aware of Microsoft having acquired any such startup recently. |
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translated "no" to "No" 💀 |
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It said that 'Ello' was spainish then translated it to 'It' lol |
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It seems like the algorithm does something like: for lang in languages:
if Bing.IsTextInLang(text, lang):
return langThe algorithm should be closer to: for lang in languages:
if Bing.IsTextInLang(text, lang):
# if the text is valid in the user's language, then assuming that it makes sense to offer to translate is silly
# so, only offer to translate if it isn't valid in the user's language
if not Bing.TranslateFrom(sourceLanguage: userLanguage, destLanguage: lang, text: text):
return langIn the short term, a number of tokens should be added as stop words, that includes |
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I don't like it, sorry, where do I disable it? |
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Thinks hyperlinks are Spanish and wants to translate to English. Doesn't work well at all. |
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Yeah, here's an example in the wild, still not fixed months later |
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Surprisingly this just worked quite well with some Portuguese text. |
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'nuff said |
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it translated no and said no was from spanish |
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It is really helpful 😮 |
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FRENCH Serait-il possible d'avoir GitHub dans le langage choisi ? Beaucoup de personnes dans le monde ne parlent pas l'anglais, ou mal. Avoir le choix de choisir son langage dans les paramètres de son compte serait un plus pour gérer l'interface complète. Si cette discussion recevait des PLUS PLUS avec AVIS alors peut être que GitHub apporterait cette possibilité. Pour information Bitbucket et Gitlab sont traduit en Français alors que Github n'est pas traduit ENGLISH Would it be possible to have GitHub in the chosen language? Many people in the world do not speak English, or badly. Having the choice to choose your language in the settings of your account would be a plus to manage the whole interface. If this discussion would receive PLUS PLUS with NOTICE then maybe GitHub would bring this possibility. For information Bitbucket and Gitlab translate in French Github not translated up |
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One suggestion for improvement could be an option for users to provide feedback on the accuracy of translations. This could help fine-tune the system over time and ensure a more seamless communication experience for everyone. @bigzoo |
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Hola mundo ✨👋🏻 |
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"make a pr" was identified as portugese |
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Hello! 👋
This is a discussion for gathering user feedback on the beta release of English translations for Discussions.
To learn more about this feature and how to use it, see the changelog post.
Please use this discussion to share your experience using the new feature, and any ideas you have on how the experience could be improved.
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