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Find a suitable page that exists on the English Wikipedia, but not on Wikipedia in the other language (or where the other language only has a stub). On the other Wikipedia, go to the corresponding page or enter the wanted name in the search box. Then click the button marked "create" or "edit" in the new language.
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 ...
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.
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This encyclopedia is written in English.Sometimes an article is published here in another language by mistake, or is poorly translated into English from one of the approximately 300 Wikipedias in other languages, and requires retranslation or attention from bilingual editors to bring it up to English Wikipedia standards.
Many pages on the English Wikipedia are available in other languages. 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).
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.