Using AI for documentation translations?

Django Internals Documentation
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Hi all!

Since everyone now has a free seat on github copilot, I was wondering if someone thinks it would be a good idea to try to smoothen the process of translating Django documentation?

I am not suggesting to have this completely automated thou. What I have in mind would be to have a github action that every change made to the documentation, would trigger copilot to propose a translation for the change in all supported languages. It would be up to the usual humans to make the call to accept, disregard or improve the proposed change.

The reason I am proposing this is that I often find it easier to review such change than to come up with a translation myself. On the other hand, this could bring a wave of “good enough” translations that no human would have proposed but that they still decide to accept from AI because it would be “close enough”.

Note: I have no idea of the actual feasibility of this or if this is something that would even work with copilot, but I thought I’d ask here before investigating further.

What do you all think?

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Hi @emma, thank you for bringing up translations, it’s often an overlooked topic.

At the moment, translations are managed through an external platform called Transifex (see details here). This platform provides a more user-friendly experience for translators compared to managing pull requests with the translated strings directly.

So if we were to follow this path, we may need to evaluate how feasible and desirable would be to have an action that submits the translations to Transifex via API or similar.

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(Can anyone edit the topic name to something more descriptive so that those interested in translations are more likely to see this thread?)

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Sure - Have a suggestion? (Sorry, not feeling really creative at the moment.)

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@KenWhitesell It’s OK, I already did it. Should have commented sorry.

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@carltongibson No worries, I eventually did realize that the title had changed.

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