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The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
https://commons-app.github.io/
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Translate caption/description #4976

Open nicolas-raoul opened 2 years ago

nicolas-raoul commented 2 years ago

What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?

I often see captions (or descriptions) in languages I can not read.

How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?

It happens a lot. Users who use Explore to find a picture of sugar (for instance) would probably like to understand the caption/description so that they can be sure the picture really shows sugar, not salt or something else.

Who will benefit from it?

Users of Explore

Anything else you would like to add?

From a license point of view, we can not include any closed-source translation library.

From a privacy point of view, we should not call translation web APIs. I guess that excludes Android-side integration with local translation apps, since those typically call their web service (even in the case of offline translation I guess they gather usage data and send it when online). Calling a third-party service via a proxy service running on our Wikimedia-owned server would be OK, I guess.

It has to be gratis.

Claud-C commented 1 year ago

@nicolas-raoul Can I try to work on ​this issue?

zhihaoyuu commented 1 year ago

I think I can try to solve the problem, could you assign the issue to me

nicolas-raoul commented 1 year ago

Hi @Claud-C and @zhihaoyuu Thanks for your enthusiasm! Would you mind re-reading https://github.com/commons-app/commons-app-documentation/blob/master/android/Volunteers-welcome!.md#developers especially the part about labels? Do you have more than 5 merged pull requests already? Thanks!