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Help:Contributing/languages/translationAdmin/en

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This page is for the translation administrator role: you mark wiki pages for translation and manage their units. The [[Help:Contributing/languages]] page explains the two mechanisms and the target languages.

== Marking a new page ==

<ol>
<li>Add <code><languages/></code> at the top of the page.</li>
<li>Wrap each unit in <code><translate></code> — one sentence or short paragraph per unit.</li>
<li>Open [[Special:PageTranslation]] and mark the page.</li>
</ol>

== Updating a marked page ==

Editing a marked page changes its units. After the edit, mark the page again at [[Special:PageTranslation]]. Changed units are flagged as outdated until translators retranslate them.

== Unit hygiene ==

* Keep units self-contained: one sentence or short paragraph each.
* Do not split markup or code across units.
* Wrap anything that must not be translated — entity IDs, page names, code — in tvar.
* Never wrap a whole link in a tvar: the link label must stay translatable, so write it in the unit text and keep the target fixed (Special:MyLanguage links also route readers to their language version).
* Keep existing unit markers unchanged when editing; the extension assigns numbers when you mark.

== See also ==

* <tvar name="hub">[[Help:Contributing/languages]]</tvar> — the hub
* <tvar name="translator">[[Help:Contributing/languages/translator]]</tvar> — the other role
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example Page translation example] (official)

Help:Contributing/languages/translator/en

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This page is for the translator role: you translate wiki pages into the official languages — en, fr, eo. The [[Help:Contributing/languages]] page explains the two mechanisms.

== Translating a page ==

<ol>
<li>Open [[Special:Translate]].</li>
<li>Pick the page group and the target language.</li>
<li>Translate the units and save.</li>
</ol>
Preview your result with <code>?uselang=</code> plus the language code at the end of the page URL, for example <code>?uselang=fr</code>.

== What not to translate ==

* tvar placeholders — copy them unchanged.
* Markup and code.
* Entity IDs (<code>P1</code>, <code>Q6</code>) and language codes.

== House rules ==

* Machine translation is a starting point, not a final answer: always read and correct machine-translated units.
* Keep terminology consistent with the entity terms (labels/descriptions) in the data layer — see the entity terms section on the [[Help:Contributing/languages]] page.

== See also ==

* <tvar name="hub">[[Help:Contributing/languages]]</tvar> — the hub
* <tvar name="admin">[[Help:Contributing/languages/translationAdmin]]</tvar> — the other role
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate Translate extension help] (official)

Help:Contributing/languages/translationAdmin/en

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<languages/>

This page is for the translation administrator role: you mark wiki pages for translation and manage their units. The [[Help:Contributing/languages]] page explains the two mechanisms and the target languages.

== Marking a new page ==

<ol>
<li>Add <code><languages/></code> at the top of the page.</li>
<li>Wrap each unit in <code><translate></code> — one sentence or short paragraph per unit.</li>
<li>Open [[Special:PageTranslation]] and mark the page.</li>
</ol>

== Updating a marked page ==

Editing a marked page changes its units. After the edit, mark the page again at [[Special:PageTranslation]]. Changed units are flagged as outdated until translators retranslate them.

== Unit hygiene ==

* Keep units self-contained: one sentence or short paragraph each.
* Do not split markup or code across units.
* Wrap anything that must not be translated — entity IDs, links, code — in tvar.
* Keep existing unit markers unchanged when editing; the extension assigns numbers when you mark.

== See also ==

* <tvar name="hub">[[Help:Contributing/languages]]</tvar> — the hub
* <tvar name="translator">[[Help:Contributing/languages/translator]]</tvar> — the other role
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example Page translation example] (official)