Wikipedia:Translation
- Note : This page now replaces Wikipedia:Translation into English.
- See also: Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English and Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
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This page exists as a place to request and to coordinate translations of articles from foreign-language Wikipedias into English. To request translations in the opposite direction (that is, from English to another language), navigate to the corresponding translation request page in the relevant foreign-language Wikipedia:
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Wikipedia is a multilingual project; as such, we may have articles on one subject available in many languages. The various languages each wikis, linked by Wikipedia:interlanguage links.
Articles on the same subject in separate languages are independently editable and edited; they are not required to be translations of one another or to strictly maintain a correspondence in form, style, content, or attitude (so long as they all accord with the NPOV policy), though it is hoped that polyglots who work in multiple languages will help spread new information around between the articles in different languages. This page exists in support of that work.
Translating entire articles into another language can be helpful when getting started, but there are some caveats:
- Translation is hard. Amateur translators tend to produce prose that is unnatural, and perhaps incorrect when it comes to specialized terminology.
- Machine translation can produce low quality results, and requires much editing. Automated translation programs can be useful though because they enable a person who may not be fluent in a foreign language to produce a translation which can then be edited by themselves and others in their native language. However, the general consensus of Wikipedia contributors is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing. Please do not try to "fulfill" a request here by just doing a machine translation. Presumably, the person who made the request could access a machine translation just as easily as you can.
- Sometimes a useful translation requires more than just a faithful rendering of the original. For example, a typical reader of that English needs no explanation of The Wizard of Oz, but has no idea who Zwarte Piet might be; for a typical reader of Dutch, it might be the other way around.
Please note that for copyright reasons, this page is not for requesting translation of sources external to any Wikipedia. The exception to this is if you can also show that the license conditions of the source page would permit its redistribution under the GFDL, e.g. if the page is public domain or itself GFDL-ed, or if permission has been obtained from the author. In that case you should state the copying terms clearly with your request, including if relevant a link to a "terms and conditions" page of the source website.
See Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English for pages on the English Wikipedia that will shortly be deleted unless translated.
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- Wikipedia:Translation - How-to - Available translators - Featured Articles - All translation sub-pages - Intertranswiki Project
- Translations from: Arabic - Chinese - Dutch - French - German - Italian - Japanese - Swedish - Polish - Spanish - Portuguese - Russian - All supported languages
- Archive by Translation Stage : Requests - In Progress - Proofreaders Needed - Completed Translations
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Language code :
The language code used here correspond to the ISO 639-1 standard : 日本語 (ja) • Русский (ru) • Deutsch (de) • English (en) • Español (es) • Français (fr) • Italiano (it) • Nederlands (nl) • Polski (pl) • Português (pt) • Svenska (sv) • (See http://wikipedia.org/ for other language codes) |
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the talk page.
Language-specific pages
How to propose a page to be translated:
To propose a page to be translated, type below after the slash ('/') the name of the article in English and follow the instructions.
Click here to see a detailed example
Alternatively, you can put the template {{Translation}} in the talk page of the English article.
How to choose and translate an article:
If you are looking for an article to translate, you will find many recent requests here and, if you are ambitious, you may choose from the page listing featured articles in other languages.
Please consult the translation subpage of the article chosen, as it will provide information on the steps to follow.
Once you have finished translating, you may ask a proofreader to check that everything is comprehensible and grammatically correct. You may also call upon a consultant if the article involves technical terms or requires in-depth knowledge of the subject chosen.
The translation subpage also allows you all to communicate easily: requester of the translation, translators, proofreaders and consultants. For example, if the article is very long, you may post a message on the subpage informing other translators of which part or parts you will be working on so as to avoid mix-ups and overlapping translations.
There are tools available on the Translating Tips page (multilingual online dictionaries, other translation projects on Wikipedia, etc) that enables you to find all the English interwikis of the internal links of the translated article.
How to sign up:
{{Userboxtop}}
{{Translator|es|Spanish}}
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{{Proofreader|fr|French}}
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If you would like to help translate articles, add something like the above code to your user page (the first code if you wish to translate, and the second if you wish to proofread as well). You will then have userboxes like the ones to the right providing direct links to the Project:Translation pages concerning your chosen languages and adding you to their lists of translators/proofreaders.
Explanation:
- "de" is the code for German in ISO 639-1
- Other examples : 日本語 (ja) • Русский (ru) • Deutsch (de) • English (en) • Español (es) • Français (fr) • Italiano (it) • Nederlands (nl) • Polski (pl) • Português (pt) • Svenska (sv) •
- Go to this page to see all languages available, or to make another available
- The number 3 indicates your level of proficiency in a language, as in Wikipedia:Babel.
See Wikipedia:Translation/*/How-to for more details
- >> see Completed Translations [[Wikipedia:Translation/*/Completed Translations/Template:PREVIOUSMONTHNAME_2024|for the previous month]]
Wikipedia:Translation/*/Completed Translations/August 2024
Wikipedia:Translation/*/Proofreaders Needed/August 2024
- >> see In Progress [[Wikipedia:Translation/*/In Progress/Template:PREVIOUSMONTHNAME_2024|for the previous month]]
Wikipedia:Translation/*/In Progress/August 2024
- >> see Translation Requests [[Wikipedia:Translation/*/Translation Requests/Template:PREVIOUSMONTHNAME_2024|for the previous month]]
- >> see the categories "Translation Requests" by language : de es fr it ja nl pl pt sv ru zh others
- >> see an evaluation of the Featured Articles in - French - German - Italian - Japanese - Spanish - Others