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.

Steps

Step 1: Create

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

To create this page, you can click "Create". You can also copy the content of (pagename)/en 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 for it 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).

Step 4: Flags

While waiting for a reply, you may want to go back to the future. Using {{Flag-nav}}, edit the main page and add your language. For an example:

If you wish to add FR and GL to it, you would do:

{{Flag-nav
|en = yes
|fr = yes
|gl = yes
}}

For a full documentation, please visit the template. If your language is not on the list, please contact an administrator.

Exceptions

• Blog posts follow another format: User blog:Yatalu/Some title should be translated on User:Yatalu/Blog:Some title/xx.
• Translations for MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation-int should be posted directly on an admin's message wall.