Something funny with the language / localisation in the Community Wiki

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We’ve got some Spanish taking over the Community wiki > Administrators and Community wiki > Users subcat guides!

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This topic is also doing something funny :eyes:

This image shows a Discourse post by Nathan Kershaw about humorous issues with language localization in the Community Wiki, originally written in Spanish. (Captioned by AI)
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Looks like it isn’t just the Community Wiki!!!

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Oh no!

A Discord post by NateDhaliwal in the meta.discourse.org/t/son channel humorously comments on a minor issue regarding the translation of subcategory guides from Spanish to English on the Discourse Community Wiki. (Captioned by AI)
A Discord post by NateDhaliwal in the meta.discourse.org/t/son channel humorously comments on a minor issue regarding the translation of subcategory guides from Spanish to English on the Discourse Community Wiki. (Captioned by AI)1080×1727 187 KB

But:
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Curious…

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We have an experimental feature (not ready for mass usage :woman_gesturing_no:t2:) that localizes categories and their descriptions, and posts as you all probably already know.

We’re still improving the prompts as we go. Certain LLMs aren’t as good at detecting languages and translating as we’ve seen. Those LLMs are unable to determine a text is written in English. So we’ll get stuff like -

Post content: “I lived in Japan for 10 years”
LLM: This post is written in Japanese!

– which is just outright wrong.

Thanks for your patience folks!

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