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Wikipedia:Directory: a descriptive list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes. Wikipedia:FAQ: a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Wikipedia:Questions: discusses how to ask questions on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Tips: how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels. Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts: summarizes some of Wikipedia's protocols in a bullet-point ...
English sources preferred: Do check to see if an English-language citation is available that is the equivalent of the foreign-language citation (for example an authorized translation), since that's easier for readers to verify. If you do find one, you don't need to include the foreign-language citation.
Find pages that need translation or proofreading, and add them to the list on this page. See #Standard procedures for how to do this. Find a page that is already in the list (see #Translated pages that could still use some cleanup) and help translate it. Or, pick a random article that needs cleanup which has been translated from one of these ...
As you get started, watch this video to set up the translation tool. Translation tools can be helpful, but keep an eye out for unclear sentence structure. Keep terms in English that don't have a direct translation or add "englisch" followed by the English word in parenthesis. For example: Asiatische Amerikaner (englisch Asian Americans).
If you want to ask for a translation into English of an article from another language's Wikipedia, go to Wikipedia:Translation. Listing a page here Most pages get listed here by subst'ing a {{ Needtrans }} template, following the instructions given at any one of several translation-related templates that are added to the article page.
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It will follow the article at every step of the translation, keeping track of all the information on it when used as a template ( {{Wikipedia:Translation/(Name of article here)}} ). The corresponding translation page must first be created by typing, below, after the slash ('/') the name of the article as it would appear in English.