Wikimedia:Translation administrators/Preparing a page for translation
Here are the basic steps that help you creating a translatable page that can use the benefits of the translate extension:
Read the manual.
Assess whether the page is suitable for translation or needs translation.
- Local projects may not need translation.
- Some pages have a structure that may not be suitable for translation.
- If you need help, ask an active translation administrator
Assess whether you are capable to migrate existing translations to the new system. It may be a lot of work to copy the old translation into the new one. If you aren't able to spend a lot of time or you are unable find the proposed translation units in the new system, ask for help. Do not proceed until you are sure that you and the people who promised to help are able to migrate everything within a few days, if it is a policy, even within a few hours. Whether you have the capabilities to migrate to the new system usually depends on
- The volume of existing translations.
- The status of the existing translations (outdated, current)
- The page length and structure
- Beispiel → Example/de
- Exemple - Example/fr
- Ekzemplo → Example/eo
- Eksempel → Example/da
- …
- Local name → English name/langcode
Example which is located at Exemple, you have to move it to Example/fr to ensure the page history, which also servers for the attribution requirement of the Creative Commons License, all texts at Commons are licensed under, is merged. If you do not move it, the subpages created by the Extension (as soon as a translation to one language was started) must be deleted and the page where the translation was copied from must be moved there (both moving to and deleting a subpage require temporary unmarking a page from translation). After moving, the deleted revisions can be restored (History merge)
Prepare the page for translation. Some templates were designed to help keeping it easy for the translators. Further help is available in the manual.
