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Wikipedia: Basic copyediting, a task commonly following translation; Wikipedia: Pages needing translation into English, for pages on the English Wikipedia that will shortly be deleted unless translated; Wikipedia: Translating German Wikipedia; Wikipedia: Translators available; Wikipedia: WikiProject Translation Studies
Wikipedia:Basic copyediting, a task commonly following translation; Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English, for pages on the English Wikipedia that will shortly be deleted unless translated; Wikipedia:Translating German Wikipedia; Wikipedia:Translators available; Wikipedia:WikiProject Cross-language Editing and Learning Exchange
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.
Once you have finished translating, you may ask a proofreader to check the translation. The English text should be understandable to a wide audience, so – other things being equal – use everyday English expressions rather than jargon or foreign expressions. It may be necessary to add material explaining terms or cultural concepts unfamiliar ...
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.
It spawned thousands of unused translation subpages. These were difficult to update, so they generally were never updated. Requests were untrackable. Since most translation subpages were not updated, years-old translation requests became stale as the English Wikipedia was updated independently.
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 ...
An example of this is at Draft:Contravention in French criminal law.Since many editors might not know the language in question, we might need to consider encouraging taggers to create a Talk section with a machine translation of the original, so it could be compared with the translated content in the article; perhaps as an excerpt of a few ...