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Excellent initiative. Great to see this going live in so many languages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:51, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Waitaminute: the English-language Wikipedia is already the most bloated in the entire Wikimedia family, so you're giving us a tool to make it even larger? I thought this was going to be a tool for translating out of English into languages where articles are more needed! --Orange Mike | Talk 23:45, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many users can only write fluently in English anyway, why exclude them? The article count gives only an impression of better coverage, the English Wikipedia has a lot of stuff (much of it possibly of questionable interest, "bloated" as you say) but it's lacking on many important topics where other Wikipedias have better coverage; Mix'n'match is one place where you can find a list of todos. --Nemo 06:15, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Bloated"?! So, how many articles is supposed to be too many? Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:13, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe some greater coverage of Africa or Asia on En Wikipedia would be useful? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:17, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is indeed incredibly bloated as far as pop culture and remote American villages with a population of 3 go, on the other hand there are crucial subjects regarding history and culture that are barely mentioned.--Catlemur (talk) 13:57, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I read a while ago (but I cannot remember the source - help me if you can) that something close to 50% of the articles in the German Wikipedia don't exist in the English Wikipedia. That is, there is surprisingly low overlap of coverage even among the "big" languages. Also, as a side point to Orangemike's concern - translating an article from a small wikipedia into English (or even Simple English WP) is an excellent way to encourage that article to then be translated back "out" to other language wikis. Witty lama 12:50, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Marvelous. I look forward to fiddling around with this some. Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:54, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This is very exciting. I can read French reasonably well and I look forward for translating French articles into English. Harej (talk) 02:08, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've got my first target article already decided on, just waiting to get going! Looking forward to it! Witty lama 12:50, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Content Translation is now available. The announcement has been posted on the VP (technical). Thanks.--Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can follow all the articles published in en.wp with this special search on recent changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=contenttranslation It appears I missed out on my article Piazza Santo Stefano being the 1st mainspace article translation by a matter of seconds! Witty lama 17:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]