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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. Articles in poorly translated English should be listed here.
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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 ...
Wikipedia welcomes the involvement of students in article editing. Article translation is particularly well-suited to student involvement. We suggest that they are asked to translate from the language they are learning, to the language with which they are already familiar.
Engrish is a slang term for the inaccurate, poorly translated, nonsensical or ungrammatical use of the English language by native speakers of other languages. [1] The word itself relates to Japanese speakers' tendency to struggle to pronounce the English / l / and / r / distinctly arising from the fact Japanese has only one liquid phoneme ...
Machine translation can have difficulty with individual words or expressions for many reasons, including false friends, false cognates, literal translation, neologisms, slang, idiomatic expressions and other unrecognized compounds, words with multiple meanings, words with specialized meanings in certain knowledge domains different from a common ...
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.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.