Welcome to the Meta-Wiki translation portal. This page points to translation requests on Meta. It also has information and help on how to translate, and how to sign up to help with translation. See the
Babylon for more general info.
How to translate
- Find something in thetranslators dashboard that you would like to translate
- Click relevant section
- Start translating
Seethe tutorial for details.
How to request a translation
- If it doesn't exist yet, create the page you want to be translated here on Meta-Wiki.
- Follow thetutorial to prepare the page for translation (steps 1 and 2 of the tutorial).
- Atranslation administrator (or yourself if you're one) will see the page onSpecial:PageTranslation and mark it for translation (step 3 of the tutorial).
If you don't understand what to do andthe documentation doesn't help, or translation administrators haven't seen your request,ask for help.
Best practices in short (read more):
- Make the source text asclear andunderstandable as possible. When a text is to be translated, clarity comes before conciseness.
- For texts used outside of Meta, it is recommended that you include anexplanation or alink showing the context of the original.
- Think aboutwhen you want the translation to be ready, andwhich languages it is most relevant to translate the given text into, and specify those on the page itself.
You can sometimes ask for help with translations onTranslators-l, a mailing list for Wikimedia translators.
You can read more abouttranslatability.
Wikimedia Foundation wiki
Some of the above requests, and some of the manual requests inTranslations by status, are or were about pages which exist (also) onwikimediafoundation.org and used to be handled by interested editors and thetranscom (until May 2013), seethe subpages for archives.
If you want to translate a Wikimedia Foundation site or publication that is not editable, contact the local people in charge, such asfoundationwiki sysops.
In 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation wiki started accepting SUL logins like other wikis, but restricts editing of all content namespaces. Talk pages and translations can be edited by all. As a result, you can translate directly in the wiki. For more information, seeWikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki.
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