AI Translation: What happened to "Translatable Categories" and how are translation costs calculated?

[Moin]

@Sara_Carmona_y_Lladó

Configuration changes

Has the AI Translation feature changed from a “Translatable categories” model to an “Excluded categories” model?

If so:

• Was there an automatic migration?
• How were the existing category selections converted?
• Is there any way to determine whether the current configuration was migrated automatically or modified manually?

Yes there was a migration

@pmusaraj

Following that change, the ability to limit topic translation to specific categories is still present. But unlike the initial implementation, now Discourse defaults to translating all content and an ai_translation_excluded_categories site setting is available to do just that, exclude categories from translation.

Existing communities should have been migrated automatically to this system. Let us know if you run into any issues.

The migration took a list of all categories on the forum and removed the ones configured in the translateable categories setting. The remaining categories were saved in the new excluded categories setting, preserving the existing translation behavior.

You should be able to see manual changes on the setting in your staff action logs. You can filter those for changes on a specific setting (The url is something like https://forum.example.com/admin/logs/staff_action_logs?filters=%7B%22subject%22%3A%22ai_translation_excluded_categories%22%2C%22action_name%22%3A%22change_site_setting%22%7D)

Post translations are stored in the database, so the same content is translated only once.

You can use data explorer to get more data on the translations on your forum.
This query returns all categories on your forum except for the ones configured to be excluded from ai translation:

SELECT c.id as category_id, c.name
FROM categories c
WHERE c.id NOT IN (
  SELECT unnest(string_to_array(value, '|')::integer[])
  FROM site_settings
  WHERE name = 'ai_translation_excluded_categories'
)
ORDER BY c.id