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Go to the sidebar and click "Add links" or "Edit links" (under 'Languages', in the language of that wiki). Enter "en" as the language of the wiki you got the content from, and the title of the page you translated, then click "Link with page". If appropriate, edit again, tidy up the layout, and add links, headings, and images.
These pages are accessed via the interlanguage links or interwiki links, usually visible on the upper right of a page. (For the desktop website this was previously on the bottom left. For some languages this is still the case). Links to all the different language versions for that page will be displayed.
The problem with having links on each page was that each language had to maintain its own separate lists. So for example, if the name of a page on the English Wikipedia changed, then each Wikipedia article in a different language that linked to that English Wikipedia page would have to separately notice this fact and change their own links.
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 ...
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.
Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies.
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 {} template, following the instructions given at any one of several translation-related templates that are added to the article page.
The content translation tool assists users in translating existing Wikipedia articles from one language to another. Users select an article in any language, then select another language, and the interface provides machine translation which the human user can then use as inspiration to make readable text in another language.