Translating the wiki
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To translate the wiki, you first need an account. Since you can't register for one on this wiki, you need to ask us, either through the mailing list or via IRC. See Contact for more information on how to contact us.
How to make a new translation of a page
Go to the page you want to translate, and append "/xx" to the page title, with "xx" replaced by the code of the language you want to translate into.
Example: to translate Main Page into French (code: "fr"), go to Main Page/fr
You can use the search box on the left or edit the url directly to do that.
Copy the content from the original page and just start translating.
Make sure that there is a {{languages}} at the top of the page. This will show the language box. Note: due to caching it may be that that language box isn't updated properly the first time, you may have to save the translate page again.
Watch out for some templates, like the Date template: make sure to update the language string in them as well. E.g. {{Template:Date|date=2010-01-05|lang=en}} should become lang=xx (with "xx" being your language code).
Also append "/xx" to the links to other translated wiki pages on your translated page.
You may have to check if other translated pages link to the page you are translating (click the "What links here" link in the toolbox left) to update the wiki links there to the newly translated page as well.
Which pages should be translated?
We don't want to translate the entire wiki, only the most important pages. These are:
Special templates that need to be translated:
- Template:Date (this is tricky if you've never worked with templates and parserfunctions in a wiki; ask us for help if you have no clue about how to do this)
Translators
- Belarusian: Дмитрий Габинский
- Dutch: Ben Laenen
- French : Denis Jacquerye
- German: Gee Fung Sit 薛至峰
