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This template may be used to mark articles that have counterparts in Russian Wikipedia that are better than in English Wikipedia. These articles may be improved bytranslating content from the original Russian.
To mark an article, tag it with
{{Expand Russian|Russian article title|date=July 2025}}This template adds articles to the categoryCategory:Articles needing translation from Russian Wikipedia. See#Categorization below.
The template should be placed atop the article pagealong with other maintenance templates.
All parameters are optional:
|1=ARTICLE – title of the article on Russian Wikipedia. This defaults to the article linked to the English article via Wikidata.|section=yes – changes notice to "This section may be expanded..." (default: 'article')|fa=yes – used to tag articles that arefeatured articles in Russian; used in category name generation.|topic=TOPIC – a topic code used in category name generation.|date=July 2025 – set by bot if omitted.This template categorizes articles into categories. Basic categorization is into: ⟶Category:Articles needing translation from Russian Wikipedia. Usage of parametersfa andtopic define subcategories, as follows:
Topic codes are expanded into fuller descriptors in the category name; for example: codegeo becomesGeography, and codegov becomesGovernment and politics.
Topics recognized by Expand Russian and the categories they are associated with include:
| Topic code | Topic name and category | Articles in category |
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| bio | Biography | 1,993 |
| cult | Culture | 297 |
| geo | Geography | 398 |
| gov | Government and politics | 240 |
| hist | History | 120 |
| mil | Military | 225 |
| scitech | Science and technology | 74 |
| sport | Sports | 29 |
| struct | Building and structure | 132 |
| transp | Transport | 193 |
| Main category | (11 C) 1,277 |
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This section provides information about categorization in the{{Expand language}} suite of templates, and explains how to make a new subcategory available for use in a particular language template by use of a topic code. Editors may then employ the topic code in the{{Expand Russian}} template as shorthand for categorizing the article in which it appears into a subcategory associated with that topic code. If you've done this before, and just need a refresher, seeQuickstart. Otherwise, skip to thegory details below. Quickstart Here is a summary of the steps to add a newsubcategory and a new topic code to the table forTemplate:Expand Russian (details follow):
Background A topic code is just an abbreviation or word, likebio for "Biography", orsport for "Sports". Associating a topic code with a subcategory name, and enabling its use to categorize articles on which the
The{{Expand language}} suite of templates automatically categorizes pages on which it appears into Categorizing articles needing translation Adding a new topic goes hand in hand with creating a new subcategory in which to categorize articles needing expansion. The top level (and sometimes only) category for articles needing expansion for a given language follows this pattern:
But the top level category can often grow to many hundreds or thousands of articles and that's too much for one category. In order to facilitate a better and more useful categorization, the{{Expand language}} suite of templates supports subcategorization into a number of subcategories using the
would categorize the article in which it appears into subcategory ⟶Category:Biography articles needing translation from Russian Wikipedia . Topic codes and topic names The rows in thetopic code table show what subcategories already exist under the top level category for a given language; for example, for Russian, the topic code table ishere. The existing subcategories can be found by clicking (or mousing over) the topic names in column two of the table. There are ten predefined topic codes that are conventionally available for addition to, and use by, any of the ExpandLanguageName templates. They are:bio,cult,geo,gov,hist,mil,sci,sport,struct, andtransp. Each code is recognized by param Creating a new subcategory
{{Transcat|language=Russian|topic=bio}}{{CatAutoTOC}} Enable subcategorization in the ExpandLanguageName template Creating a new subcategory is independent of the Expand language template, and one could always categorize an article into the subcategory the way any article is categorized, simply by adding the category between brackets to the end of the article. But to make subcategorization easier, the specific Expand language template for a given language will categorize the article into a subcategory automatically, if the correct association between topic code and topic name appears in the wikicode of the template. Edit the specific Expand language template for the given language; for example, for Russian: editTemplate:Expand Russian The association between topic code and topic name for a given language, and by extension between the topic code and the subcategory name, occurs in the wikicode of the specific language name templates, in particular, in the assignment of Classify articles into the new subcategory To classify articles into the new subcategory, use a specific Expand language template with the
Creating non-standard subcategories and topic codes Topic codes that are not among the standard ten may be created for specific languages and associated with new subcategories as needed. Define a topic code, a topic name corresponding to the variable part of the subcategory name, and add it to the template#switch statement. To add the new code to the topic table in the doc page, create a /topics subpage, e.g.,Template:Expand Russian/topics in which the row for the topics table is defined. If the file exists, it is transcluded at the end of the table. For an example, see This is a more advanced type of operation which requires some basic knowledge of template writing, so it may be easier to do this by adding anEdit request on the Talk page of the template concerned. In the Edit request, specify the topic code and subcategory name you wish to add. For example, you could say, "Please add new topic codemtn to{{Expand Nepali}} which should categorize articles containing |