Nonbinary Wiki:Translations

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 The Nonbinary Wiki is mainly an English project, but we are very happy to provide translations of our articles in other languages. If you are capable to do so, join our translation team! This page will guide through the basics of translation and getting involved with the project.

How to translate

Access the page Special:PageTranslation to check which articles are marked for translations. Not all articles in the wiki are marked for translation, but if you want to translate a specific page that is not listed, request it in Nonbinary Wiki:Translations/requests. A translation admin will take a look at the request and probably accept it.

To translate a page, click on the small Translate this page link that is displayed at the very top of the article content. This will take you to the translation interface:

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Choose the Untranslated tab (or the Outdated one if you want to update old translations). Click on each segment and translate it to your chosen language in the text box! You can optionally add edit summaries to each translation in case you feel the need of clarifying a specific choice of words, but you don't need to. If a segment doesn't need translating, click on the Paste source text button —if you leave the box empty, it will display as incomplete.

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Careful with wikitext syntax. The translation interface uses the code editor, meaning that you are likely to see formatting tags. These include square brackes (internal links), double or triple apostrophes (italics and bold text),, and others. As a general rule, you can translate italics and bold text, but not page title in links. Look at the advanced section below for more details.

If you don't know the translation of a segment, you can skip! However, avoid translating only part of a segment; treat them as inseparable units —you either translate it all, or you don't translate it at all. Remember that all translations need to be reviewed by another user before being displayed publicly, but as soon as it goes through a review, they will be published immediately.

'''You don't need to read this section in order to translate! This is only for those who feel confident in their wiki-editing skills and want to improve the quality of their translations (as well as making them easier to review).'''

Dealing with wikitext
Wikitext is the markup language that we use to edit wiki pages. It's pretty easy to understand but at the same time provides a lot of flexibility. This section explains how to deal with the most common wikitext tags.


 * Italic and bold text : Translate it, but don't forget the apostrophes! Make sure there's the same amount of them at the beginning and also at the end of the word.
 * Internal links : The basic rule is not to translate them, since the name of the page is in English. However, there are exceptions:
 * Use link titles: you can have a link display a different text than the page it links too. For example, example link creates this link: example link (i.e. it links to nonbinary but example link is displayed instead). If the original link has this syntax, feel free to translate the link title (that is, the text on the right of the | symbol), but not the page it links to.
 * Use Special:MyLanguage: you can tell the software to link to a page but to take the user to the version of the page translated to whatever language the user has configured. For example, if you translate Nonbinary for Special:MyLanguage/Nonbinary, the reader will automatically be redirected to the translation of the Nonbinary page (if it exists, otherwise it defaults to English).
 * Html tags. External links. Templates. Images.


 * Using tags.

How to review translations

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Information for translation admins

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If you are short on time...

Not everyone has the time to commit to a big project such as this one. If that's your case, here are some things you can do to help us anyway!


 * Follow us on social media and interact with our posts. We are @NonbinaryWiki on Tumblr!
 * Join our Discord community, open to both nonbinary and binary people.
 * If you can afford it, become a patreon to support the project, for as low as $2/month!