Feedback for Translation of English Discussions

[bigzoo]

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.

[TPS]

How/when can this be accessed via the official app? Will it be extended throughout?

[zeke]

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.

[zeke]

I also left a comment over on the GitHub Mobile feedback discussion you mentioned here.

[TPS]

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.

@zeke I do mean the mobile apps. ETA?

[zeke]

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.

[yassine-cherni]

It's good

[PythonCoderAS]

Woah this is really cool. Does it use Google Translate?

[qgustavor]

I tested some translations and looks like it uses Bing Translate. That's no surprise given the parent company is Microsoft.

[belcar-s]

Bing Translate is my favorite.

[Howlmaster]

That's cool.

[Anrock]

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.

[interDist]

The origin language detection is buggy, as a result, the translation is useless.

[coder0107git]

For example when someone replied no it detected that as spanish because it didnt have a capital letter and offered to translate to english

I'm on this thread because of basically the exact same issue (No is capitalized in my case). I'm attaching a screenshot of where the problem occured.

Screenshot

BTW: 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.

[jsoref]

Hey, I just came here to write exactly about that instance! Thanks for referencing it 😄

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/49954#discussioncomment-5335875

[eliaselliotson]

I also had this bug when someone replied to a comment with "me too". It translates to "I get all", which makes no sense.

[PixelyIon]

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.

[dwisiswant0]

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.

[SwiftyProgrammer690]

It has just been fixed!
Read the blog post here: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-06-14-translations-for-discussions/

[osfanbuff63]

Amazing! Sounds like it will make project management so much easier!

[SwiftyProgrammer690]

It sure will!

[anaclumos]

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 for variable in variables even if it is a code block).

[DatGamerYoloYT]

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)

[NickCrews]

Here is an example

[ghost]

"No" translate to english

[alexlalves]

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.

[osfanbuff63]

I agree, you should be able to say what languages you understand so that translations don't show then.

[paradoxicallist]

+1
I'd like to have this option too.

[zc-devs]

No, this translation was useless.

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How to disable automatic translations?

[rhodes-b]

ghostty-org/ghostty#5759 (reply in thread)

this just happened to me clearly there is an issue with the word "no"

[EngrPips]

The translation makes sense.

[S-PScripts]

When will you fix "No" being translated to Spanish??

[peppy]

[EngrPips]

What does this mean?

[peppy]

started appearing on every "no", you tell me 😅😅

[EngrPips]

I think you can ignore it.

[peppy]

Yes. I can also post the feedback in this thread like I was instructed to by the "Give Feedback" link. I intentionally posted a screenshot showing it happening alongside countless similar reports dating back years. There's a hope I have that this would re-raise the issue with the github team, but based on lack of action over the years it's a shot in the dark.

[EngrPips]

Yeah, but raising it is good, and maybe it will be fixed later, if not sooner.

[jackyzimu]

Where exactly can I click on the menu(o_ _)ﾉ

[EngrPips]

🤔

[jay-ramani]

While it's the same in Spanish, why is GitHub wrongly detecting a English language response and conversation in zufuliu/notepad4#997 (comment)?

[S-PScripts]

WHY DOES GITHUB STILL TRANSLATE NO (SINCE IT THINKS IT'S SPANISH)? IT'S BEEN LIKE THIS FOR A YEAR

[S-PScripts]

no

[eamonburns]

It thinks that "TempleOS" is Spanish, but doesn't change anything when I click to translate to English

[eamonburns]

TempleOS

[chylex]

First time seeing this feature:

[wazeerc]

Muito preciso 😂

[loloide]

be careful when translating spanish
although "por qué" is "why", "porque" means "because".

I just translated "porque" and gave me "why"

[daiyam]

My no comment was flagged as spanish...

[zachlewis]

Here's a strange (but harmless) one:

AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO#4787 (reply in thread)

"I'll do my best!" is falsely identified as Portuguese!