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2. Language-Specific Wikipedia Rules Each language version of Wikipedia has its own set of specific guidelines and norms, which may differ slightly from others. This is important when translating articles as they may require adjustments to match the conventions, tone, and formatting of the destination language. For instance:
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.
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.
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 English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [22] over a year since the millionth Wikipedian registered an account in February 2006. [23] Over 1,100,000 volunteer editors have edited Wikipedia more than 10 times. [24]
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 ...
The system is intended to be easy for the contributor. Each article has only one detailed page to update as translation work progresses. 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)}} ).