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In non-default skins, a list of available languages is visible in the left sidebar of the desktop version of Wikipedia under the "Languages" section. Pages on Wikipedia can link to equivalent pages in other languages. The English article on Spain includes a link to the Spanish article España in the "Languages" list, and vice versa.
To link to a Wikipedia article in a particular language inline (as opposed to the links in the sidebar), use [[:language code:Title]]. To link to a page on a different project in a particular language, expand the above syntax with a code for the project from the table below in § Prefix codes for linking to projects , as in [[:project:language ...
Links to all the different language versions for that page will be displayed. A lack of interlanguage links indicates that there is no equivalent page in any other language. Other language versions are usually written independently rather than being a translation. The interlanguage links may on occasion lead to non-existent pages.
Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia links bind the project to sister projects such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikipedia in other languages, and external links bind Wikipedia to the World Wide Web.
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.
You are, of course, welcome to use Wikipedia content on your own website instead of linking to it, because Wikipedia content uses an open licence (CC-by-SA 3.0). If you wish to do that, our page on reusing Wikipedia content has further advice. If you wish to cite Wikipedia in your work, see Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
Remember that an interlanguage link should be preceded by a colon if it is to be displayed, where it is inserted in the text, as an inline interlanguage link; otherwise it will be displayed in the list of interlanguage links at the side of the page (which is appropriate only if it is the most closely corresponding page in the other language ...
If you are doing something “mechanical” (adding an interwiki or a template), even an edit summary in another language is probably more useful than nothing. If you are leaving a foreign language remark, it helps to say something like “comment in Spanish, translation needed”. A useful place to look is Wikipedia:Translators available. If ...