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Many articles in English Wikipedia have been added or expanded by translating information from articles from other languages' Wikipedias. This page discusses the methods, considerations, and templates for translating those articles or requesting such.

Translation from another language to English

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WP:TRANSLATETOHERE

If there is an article on another language's Wikipedia about a topic not yet covered by an article here, and you would like to translate it yourself, see the procedures and conditions at Help:Translation. You may also improve an existing article here with content translated from another Wikipedia. The same conditions regarding acknowledging the source apply as for a full translation.

Requesting a translation from another language's Wikipedia into English is easy.

If the English article already exists (but a translation would be useful because the article in the other language is of higher quality, or includes additional information):
- simply place a translation template from the category Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates on the English article page. For example, to request improvement of the English article on Fuerteventura, based on the equivalent article on Spanish Wikipedia, place {{Expand Spanish|Fuerteventura}} on the English article Fuerteventura.
If the English article does not yet exist:
- you can:
  - create a starter article (at least a stub) in English, using the process described at Your first article;
  - once you have created the article, tag it with a translation template, as mentioned above.
- or
  - add a page request red link in the Requested articles Project section with the proposed title of the article which will contain the translation adding an interwiki link to the other language's Wikipedia page(s). Note that fewer people will likely see a request created using this method.
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  - ask a translator directly on their talk page, by taking a look at the list of available translators or the category of available translators.

In all cases, articles must meet the relevant notability criteria and other guidelines applicable to articles on the English-language Wikipedia. Each Wikipedia has its own standards, and the acceptance of an article's topic or of any part of its content in one language is no guarantee that it will be accepted in another.

Note that this page is not for requesting translations of copyrighted sources outside Wikipedia. It is also not for articles currently in English Wikipedia that are not in English. For that, please see Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English.

Articles needing translation

Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias contains all articles that have been tagged to suggest that they be expanded with content from another language's Wikipedia translated into English. Browse the appropriate language category to find an article you are interested in.
Tools like this one can locate articles that may need translation by finding articles in other languages with no interwiki link to English, but interwiki links to several other languages.

License requirements

A translation is a derivative work. Wikipedia articles are under a copyleft license that requires attribution to the original source and authors in all derivative works. How to do this is described in Help:Translation.

Translation to other languages

Translations of an article on English Wikipedia into some other language are covered at Wikipedia:Translate us.

For translations between two non-English languages, see the versions of this page in one or other of those languages – each Wikipedia has its own standards and conventions for such translations.

Images

When an article makes use of images from Wikimedia Commons that have text that needs to be translated, such as for diagrams or figures, the request for translation can be made at Commons:Requests for translation, following which the image can be listed at the Wikipedia:Graphics Lab for inserting the translated text.

Classroom collaborations

Wikipedia welcomes the involvement of students in article editing. Article translation is particularly well-suited to student involvement. Such efforts provide useful, real-world translation experience for students, who will be motivated by the fact that their work will be seen by thousands of Wikipedia readers. They also benefit Wikipedia readers, who gain access to information about other cultures and peoples. For assistance setting up a classroom translation project, please see Wikipedia:Student assignments.

Userboxes

{{User Translator}} indicates your willingness to participate in this project through translation, copy editing, or other ways.

{{User Translator|es}} produces:

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This user is a translator from Spanish to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

{{User Translator|hi|proofreader=yes}} produces:

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hindi to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

{{User Translator|ar|project=no}} produces:

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This user likes to translate articles from Arabic to English.

{{User Translator|de|proofreader=yes|project=no}} produces:

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This user likes to translate and proofread articles from German to English.

{{User Translator|sd|project=no}} produces:

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This user likes to translate articles from Sindhi to English.

{{User Translator|sd|proofreader=yes|project=no}} produces:

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This user likes to translate and proofread articles from Sindhi to English.

After putting this template on a userpage, the page will be added to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Available translators in Wikipedia. When the proofreader attribute is set to 'yes', the page will also be added to a subcategory of Category:Available proofreaders in Wikipedia.

{{User Translator 2}} works in the same way in the other direction (from English to another language).

External links

wikt:Wiktionary:Translations
m:Translation of the week
MediaWiki translation on translatewiki.net, a localisation platform for translation communities, language communities, and open source projects

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-*For non-English articles already in English Wikipedia, see [[Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English]].
-*To learn about translation of English Wikipedia articles ''into other languages'', see [[Wikipedia:Translate us]]
-*To request a translation of an English Wikipedia article ''into another language'', see the corresponding page in the foreign-language Wikipedia project {{small | (Hint: You could use the sidebar links in the desktop version of this page)}}.
-*For a tool for cross-wiki translation, see [[Wikipedia:Content translation tool]]
-*To learn about translation of foreign-language Wikipedia articles ''into English'', read on.
-}}
 {{Translation department}}
+{{Merge from|Help:Translation|discuss=Wikipedia talk:Translation#Merge proposal}}
+Many articles in English Wikipedia have been added or expanded by translating information from articles from other languages' Wikipedias. This page discusses the methods, considerations, and templates for translating those articles or requesting such.
-== Requesting a translation from a foreign language to English==
+== Translation from another language to English==
 {{shortcut|WP:TRANSLATETOHERE}}
+If there is an article on another language's Wikipedia about a topic not yet covered by an article here, and you would like to translate it yourself, see the procedures and conditions at [[Help:Translation]]. You may also improve an existing article here with content translated from another Wikipedia. The same conditions regarding acknowledging the source apply as for a full translation.
-Requesting a [[translation]] from a foreign-language Wikipedia into English is easy.
-*'''If the English article already exists''' (but a translation would be useful because the article in the foreign language is of higher quality, or includes additional information):
+''Requesting'' a [[translation]] from another language's Wikipedia into English is easy.
+*'''If the English article already exists''' (but a translation would be useful because the article in the other language is of higher quality, or includes additional information):
 **simply place a translation template from the category [[:Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates]] on the English article page. For example, to request improvement of the English article on [[Fuerteventura]], based on the [[:es: Fuerteventura |equivalent article on Spanish Wikipedia]], place <kbd><nowiki>{{Expand Spanish|Fuerteventura}}</nowiki></kbd> on the English article [[Fuerteventura]].
 *'''If the English article does not yet exist''':
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 ***once you have created the article, tag it with a translation template, as mentioned above.
 **'''or'''
-***add a page request red link in the [[WP:RA|Requested articles Project section]] with the proposed title of the article which will contain the translation adding an interwiki link to the foreign-language Wikipedia page(s). Note that fewer people will likely see a request created using this method.
+***add a page request red link in the [[WP:RA|Requested articles Project section]] with the proposed title of the article which will contain the translation adding an interwiki link to the other language's Wikipedia page(s). Note that fewer people will likely see a request created using this method.
+**'''or'''
-::In either case, articles must meet the relevant [[WP:N|notability criteria]] and other guidelines applicable to articles on the English-language Wikipedia. Each Wikipedia has its own standards, and the acceptance of an article's topic or of any part of its content in one language is no guarantee that it will be accepted in another.
+***ask a translator directly on their talk page, by taking a look at the [[WP:TRLA|list of available translators]] or the [[:Category:Available translators in Wikipedia|category of available translators]].
+::In all cases, articles must meet the relevant [[WP:N|notability criteria]] and other guidelines applicable to articles on the English-language Wikipedia. Each Wikipedia has its own standards, and the acceptance of an article's topic or of any part of its content in one language is no guarantee that it will be accepted in another.
 Note that this page is not for requesting translations of copyrighted sources outside Wikipedia. It is also not for articles currently ''in'' English Wikipedia that are not in English. For that, please see [[Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English]].
-== Articles needing translation ==
+=== Articles needing translation ===
-* [[:Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias]] contains all articles tagged as needing translation into English. Browse the appropriate language category to find an article you are interested in.
+* [[:Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias]] contains all articles that have been tagged to suggest that they be expanded with content from another language's Wikipedia translated into English. Browse the appropriate language category to find an article you are interested in.
-*Tools like [[toollabs:not-in-the-other-language/|this one]] can locate articles that may need translation by finding foreign-language articles with no interwiki link to English, but interwiki links to several other languages.
+*Tools like [[toollabs:not-in-the-other-language/|this one]] can locate articles that may need translation by finding articles in other languages with no interwiki link to English, but interwiki links to several other languages.
-* A project specifically working to translate key medical articles. [[Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project]]
 == License requirements ==
-A translation is a derivative work. Wikipedia articles are under a [[copyleft]] license that requires attribution to the original source and authors in all derivative works. How to do this is described on [[Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia projects|Translating from other language Wikimedia projects]].
+A translation is a derivative work. Wikipedia articles are under a [[copyleft]] license that requires attribution to the original source and authors in all derivative works. How to do this is described in [[Help:Translation]].
-== How to translate ==
+==Translation to other languages==
-[[File:Content Translation Screencast (English).webm|thumb|500px|Screencast showing how to use [[Special:ContentTranslation|Content Translation]]|right]]
-Articles on a given subject in different languages are typically edited independently, and need not correspond closely in form, style or content.
-If portions of an article appear to be low-quality or unverifiable, use your judgment and do not translate those portions. Once you have finished translating, you may ask a [[:Category:Available proofreaders in Wikipedia|proofreader]] to check the translation.
-{{anchor|copyright attribution}}
-'''The new, translated article must credit the source article'''. The recommended way to do this is to do both of the following:
-:*(a) Provide in the first [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]] of the target article a statement of your translation, together with an [[Help:Interlanguage links|interlanguage link]] to the source (translated-from) article. Example: <code>Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at <nowiki>[[:fr:Exact name of French article]]</nowiki>; see its history for attribution.</code>
-:*(b) Place the template {{tl|Translated page}} <!--or {{Translated|fr|Exact name of the French article}}--> on the target article's talk page.
-You are not required to import the revision history, but if you wish to do so, ask at [[Wikipedia:Requests for page importation]] for the page to either be imported into your userspace or over your translated version of the article. (See also [[Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia]], and its section at [[WP:RIA]] if you find a translation that failed to provide mandatory copyright attribution.)
-Avoid being overly influenced by the style of the original. With the exception of quotations, use normal [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Clarity|English encyclopedic style]], as appropriate for the topic.
-The English text should be [[Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable|understandable to a wide audience]], so – other things being equal – use everyday English expressions rather than [[jargon]] or foreign expressions. It may be necessary to add material explaining terms or cultural concepts unfamiliar to English-speaking readers.
-The [[Special:ContentTranslation|Content Translation tool]] may be used to facilitate the translation process. This tool is currently limited to [[Wikipedia:Extended confirmed editors|extended confirmed]] editors (those with 30 days tenure and at least 500 edits). The community is actively developing a process whereby trusted editors will be able to gain access to this tool. Please see more information at [[Wikipedia:Content translation tool]].
-===Avoid machine translations===
-{{anchor|Machine translation}}{{shortcut|WP:MACHINETRANSLATION}}
-Translation takes work.  Machine translation almost always produces very low-quality results.  Wikipedia consensus is that '''an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.''' (This is partly because translation templates automatically carry links to machine translations, so readers can easily access machine translations anyway{{mdashb}}pasting a machine translation into an "article" really achieves nothing).
-==Translation from English to another language==
 Translations of an article on English Wikipedia into some other language are covered at [[Wikipedia:Translate us]].
-== Other languages ==
 For translations between two non-English languages, see the versions of this page in one or other of those languages – each Wikipedia has its own standards and conventions for such translations.
+==Images==
+When an article makes use of images from [[Wikimedia Commons]] that have text that needs to be translated, such as for diagrams or figures, the request for translation can be made at [[:commons:Commons:Requests for translation|Commons:Requests for translation]], following which the image can be listed at the [[Wikipedia:Graphics Lab]] for inserting the translated text.
 ==Classroom collaborations==
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 * [[Wikipedia:Translators available]]
 * [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cross-language Editing and Learning Exchange]]
-* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Translation Studies]]
+* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Translation studies]]
+* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki]], translating content from non-English Wikipedias
 == External links ==
-* [[Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Translations|Wiktionary:Translations]]
+* [[wikt:Wiktionary:Translations]]
-* [[Meta:Translation of the week]]
+* [[m:Translation of the week]]
 * [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki|MediaWiki translation]] on [[translatewiki.net]], a localisation platform for translation communities, language communities, and open source projects
-* [http://courses.logos.it LOGOS – Multilingual Translation Portal] (translation course)
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