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<p>Updating to match new version of source page</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;languages/&gt;<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> == Translating a page ==<br /> <br /> &lt;ol&gt;<br /> &lt;li&gt;Open [[Special:Translate]].&lt;/li&gt;<br /> &lt;li&gt;Pick the page group and the target language.&lt;/li&gt;<br /> &lt;li&gt;Translate the units and save.&lt;/li&gt;<br /> &lt;/ol&gt;<br /> Preview your result with &lt;code&gt;?uselang=&lt;/code&gt; plus the language code at the end of the page URL, for example &lt;code&gt;?uselang=fr&lt;/code&gt;.<br /> <br /> == What not to translate ==<br /> <br /> * tvar placeholders — copy them unchanged.<br /> * Markup and code.<br /> * Entity IDs (&lt;code&gt;P1&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Q6&lt;/code&gt;) and language codes.<br /> <br /> == House rules ==<br /> <br /> * Machine translation is a starting point, not a final answer: always read and correct machine-translated units.<br /> * Keep terminology consistent with the entity terms (labels/descriptions) in the data layer — see the entity terms section on the [[Help:Contributing/languages]] page.<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * &lt;tvar name=&quot;hub&quot;&gt;[[Help:Contributing/languages]]&lt;/tvar&gt; — the hub<br /> * &lt;tvar name=&quot;admin&quot;&gt;[[Help:Contributing/languages/translationAdmin]]&lt;/tvar&gt; — the other role<br /> * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate Translate extension help] (official)</div>

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