Help:Contributing/languages/translationAdmin/en

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

1. Add <languages/> at the top of the page.
2. Wrap each unit in <translate> — one sentence or short paragraph per unit.
3. Open Special:PageTranslation and mark the page.

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 Changed units are flagged as outdated until translators retranslate them.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

• Help:Contributing/languages — the hub
• Help:Contributing/languages/translator — the other role
• Page translation example (official)