En:Wiki Translation

Idiomes: • valencià • English • castellano

Wiki Translation can be a good way to help develop the project across the world. The wiki holds a lot of important help content and documentation. We'd like to make at least some of this available in other languages. Note that Translation efforts in other areas of the project are equally important if not more so. 

Community Cohesion

Unlike wikipedia, we are not aiming to capture vast amounts of knowledge in the wiki. Wikipedia decided that the best way to build their encyclopaedia was to split the communities up by language, and run them as almost entirely separate projects. The situation here is entirely different. The wiki is not the project. Translating wiki pages should be an exercise in improving community cohesion, helping everyone to understand each other, and ultimately helping to build the maps!

With this in mind we haven't deployed exactly the same Wiki technology to support translations. We want the small fledging groups of people who do not speak English to feel welcome, and to have all the information they need, but we also want the community as a whole to stay together and stay focussed.

Wiki Translation Progress

Wiki translation is taking place on a somewhat ad-hoc basis, and you are encouraged to join in, but we also need to try and get more organised about this.

Translation efforts are still in very early stages in many languages. There are some wiki pages which are more important than others. Especial:PopularPages gives a good indication.

Wiki Translations HOWTO

Find the English version of a page in the main namespace.
(If there is no english version, you create one by following the HOWTO).

If the languages tool bar is not displayed at the top (as you see on this page for example) then edit the page, and add the following wiki text:

{{Languages|Page_name}}

While you're editing, copy the wiki text of the entire page to your clipboard. ...now 'Save'

Where it says 'missing languages', click 'show' and follow a red link to begin creating the new wiki page. Paste in the text and start rewriting it in english. New new page title should have a language prefix.

See also Wiki Help.

Note: before saving the new page, your language is shown as a missing language in the preview. However, after you have saved it, your language is still shown in the missing language box with black colour and bold type. This strange thing is caused by a template cache. Purge cache to rescan the available languages. Your language will be shown as available.

The Instructions for the Languages Template

This is a template that lists all languages available. It is based on parser functions from mediawiki and the ISO 639-1 language code.

Brief Instruction

1. All page names are in English.
   Every translated page needs a page name with a language code as a prefix, followed by a colon and the english page name.
   If the "plain" english page name content is written in English, the english page name does not have a prefix in the file name. If the "plain" english page name content is written in some other language (ie WikiProject France), the english translated page does need a prefix of "en" (ie En:WikiProject France).
   Example:Page_name - fr:Page-name - de:Page_name
2. the following has to be included in each page: {{Languages|Page_name}}

If you click on "missing languages", and then you click on a red link, it automatically opens a new page with the right suffix and the right page name. Copy the original text to this page and translate it. In the first line you put {{Languages|Page_name}}

Example for actually implemented namespaces and languages (2009-6):

Page_name
DE:Page_name
EN:Page_name 
ES:Page_name
FR:Page_name 
IT:Page_name 
NL:Page_name

This automatically generates a language menu consisting of links to the original page (in English) and all translated pages. The links are written in the respective language: Deutsch, English, Français, etc.

Pages with Title in Foreign Language

Pages with names in a national language or other names can create the automatic menu by redirect:

in XX:Page_name:

#REDIRECT [[Page_name]]

in XX:translated title of "Page_name") the English title has to be added as parameter in the template:

{{Languages|Page_name}}

Interface Selection

If you want to change the design of the bar, translate messages or change where the help bottom links to, you can do it by adding the 2nd parameter of your design template.

{{Languages|Key:highway|Fi:Languages/Interface}}

Copy the Plantilla:Languages/Interface as your first template.

Note: Technically, you can make a interface with the translated language as above, it is not recommended to use. Because this template is set for other language users to go back to their language versions, the translated messages can not be read for them. See also this discussion page.

Language Prefixes and Namespaces

Many languages are supported merely as a wiki page naming convention, while some of the more widely used ones are set up as proper namespaces within the wiki software, allowing features like tickboxes on the advanced search. Pages can be listed by prefix (for any language) using Especial:PrefixIndex

OSM	WP	ISO 639-1	name (in native)	name (in English)	wiki namespace
am	am	am	አማርኛ	Amharic	Plantilla:No
ar	ar	ar	العربية	Arabic	Plantilla:No
bg	bg	bg	български	Bulgarian	Plantilla:No
br	br	br	brezhoneg	Breton	Plantilla:No
bs	bs	bs	bosanski	Bosnian	Plantilla:No
ca	ca	ca	valencià	Catalan (Valencian)	Plantilla:No
co	co	co	corsu	Corsican	Plantilla:No
cz	cz	cs	čeština	Czech	Plantilla:No
da	da	da	dansk	Danish	Plantilla:No
de	de	de	Deutsch	German	Plantilla:Yes
el	el	el	Ελληνικά	Greek	Plantilla:No
en	en	en	English	English	Plantilla:No
eo	eo	eo	Esperanto	Esperanto	Plantilla:No
es	es	es	castellano	Spanish	Plantilla:Yes
et	et	et	eesti	Estonian	Plantilla:No
eu	eu	eu	euskara	Basque	Plantilla:No
fi	fi	fi	suomi	Finnish	Plantilla:No
fr	fr	fr	français	French	Plantilla:Yes
fy	fy	fy	Frysk	Western Frisian	Plantilla:No
gcf	NONE	NONE	créoles guadeloupéen	Guadeloupean Creole French	Plantilla:No
he	he	he	עברית	Hebrew	Plantilla:No
hr	hr	hr	hrvatski	Croatian	Plantilla:No
hu	hu	hu	magyar	Hungarian	Plantilla:No
is	is	is	íslenska	Icelandic	Plantilla:No
it	it	it	italiano	Italian	Plantilla:Yes
ja	ja	ja	日本語	Japanese	Plantilla:Yes
ko	ko	ko	한국어	Korean	Plantilla:No
lb	lb	lb	Lëtzebuergesch	Luxembourgish	Plantilla:No
lt	lt	lt	lietuvių	Lithuanian	Plantilla:No
lv	lv	lv	latviešu	Latvian	Plantilla:No
mk	mk	mk	македонски	Macedonian	Plantilla:No
nl	nl	nl	Nederlands	Dutch/Flemish	Plantilla:Yes
nn	nn	nn	norsk nynorsk	Norwegian (Nynorsk)	Plantilla:No
no	no	no	norsk	Norwegian	Plantilla:No
pl	pl	pl	polski	Polish	Plantilla:No
pt	pt	pt	português	Portuguese	Plantilla:No
pt-br	NONE	NONE	português do Brasil	Brazilian Portuguese	Plantilla:No
ro	ro	ro	română	Romanian	Plantilla:No
ro-md	mo	mo (deprecated)	молдовеняскэ	Moldavian (Romanian)	Plantilla:No
ru	ru	ru	русский	Russian	Plantilla:Yes
sk	sk	sk	slovenčina	Slovak	Plantilla:No
sl	sl	sl	slovenščina	Slovenian	Plantilla:No
sq	sq	sq	shqip	Albanian	Plantilla:No
sv	sv	sv	svenska	Swedish	Plantilla:No
tr	tr	tr	Türkçe	Turkish	Plantilla:No
uk	uk	uk	українська	Ukrainian	Plantilla:No
vi	vi	vi	Tiếng Việt	Vietnamese	Plantilla:No
zh-hans	NONE -> zh	NONE (zh-Hans - ISO 15924 Hans)	中文（简体）‎	Simplified Chinese	Plantilla:No
zh-hant	NONE -> zh	NONE (zh-Hant - ISO 15924 Hant)	中文（繁體）‎	Traditional Chinese	Plantilla:No
zh-tw	NONE -> zh	NONE (zh-min-nan-TW - RFC 3066)	中文（台灣）‎	Taiwanese Chinese	Plantilla:No

See Chinese Wikipedia for informations about Chinese languages on WP!

Since Moldavian ro-md/mo is not needed and should be removed! See Closure of Moldovan Wikipedia!