Add/en

This page explains how to add pages to this wiki. You should read this page first, and only turn to administrators or other users if you still do not understand how to add pages.

Situation
When you want to add a new page, you are most likely in the following situation: you are on a page on this wiki and the entire text shows in English, even though the language of your preference is Spanish/Russian/etc. Since this language is your preference, you would therefore also prefer to see the page in that language.

Step 1: Create
The first step is to create the page of your own language. You do this by adding your language's prefix (for instance  or  ) and append it in lowercase to the end of the page's URL. For instance: to translate    from English to Dutch, you need to go to.

To create this page, you just click "Create". You can also copy the content of  into your new page, to make sure that you are using the same coding and format.

Step 2: Translate
Now that you have the correct page, you can start translating the content. This is most likely the easiest part – you just replace any English text (with the exception of pagenames) by the text of the desired language. Even if you translate only half of it, that's no problem and others may do the rest after you.

Step 3: Ask for MW
When you have published the page, an admin will need to add it to MediaWiki in order to work. Just link the page that you have created on an admin's Message Wall and ask them to add it. Usually, the admin will respond within a day (24h).

Exceptions

 * Blog posts follow another format:  should be translated on.
 * Translations for MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation-int should be posted directly on an admin's message wall.