Research into translation imbalances

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A short round of initial investigation by Jan Dittrich and myself has revealed a strong pattern in how Content Translation is used: comparing the number of articles being translated from Wikipedia languages with more editors and articles into languages with fewer articles, we’ve found an imbalance as large as 100:1 in favor of translations from the larger to the smaller language.

There is much to be done to understand the source of this imbalance, whether it’s desirable, and whether we can design an intervention which leads to a more balanced exchange between languages.

We kindly invite Outreachy applicants to consider helping us with this project, and we will co-create a flexible mentoring opportunity in whichever of these fields is most interesting to you:

• User experience research

• Programming

• Data analysis

Please see the longer version of this proposal for more details and to find “microtasks” for getting started,

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328597 - Research into translation imbalances

Kind regards,

[[mw:Adamw]] and [[meta:Simulo]]