Internationalization and Language Modeling
Building a better way to write posts in multiple languages

Building a better way to write posts in multiple languages

7/1/2016 · Shawn Mei, Don Husa

What this post added

Introduced a new multilingual composer for Pages and began testing for individual users, allowing a single post to be written in multiple languages. This involved developing new composer components using React and Flux, a storage implementation using 'author translations' (separate TAO objects for each language) instead of concatenation, and a server-side viewing experience that determines the most relevant language version for each viewer based on language preferences, locale, and common posting language. Machine translation is used to pre-fill additional language versions.

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