Help:Translation

Linking to a page translation


 * There are currently wiki docs in development in English, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese.
 * To include a link to a translation of a page (whether or not the translation yet exists), insert (for each language) a line as follows:

Name of Page in Spanish


 * As with Categories, it is convention to insert these lines near the bottom of the wiki page.
 * The link will add the language toolbar to the page and include the appropriate inter-language link.


 * The 2-letter code per language is as follows:
 * es : Spanish
 * en : English
 * zh : Chinese
 * ru : Russian
 * ro : Romanian


 * If you would like us to consider starting a wiki doc in another language, leave a note in language requests to that effect. The site administrators will consider your request.

es:WikiDoc:C%C3%B3mo_se_edita_una_p%C3%A1gina

Potential Translation Problems

General Problems

Though translation itself can be very difficult, there are some additional problem that could arise such as:
 * Problems with the source text
 * Changes made to the text during the translation process
 * Illegible text
 * Misspelled or misprinted text
 * Incomplete text
 * Poorly written text
 * Missing references in the text (for example the translator is to translate captions to missing photos)
 * The source text contains a translation of a quotation that was originally made in the target language, and the original text is unavailable, making word-for-word quoting nearly impossible
 * Obvious inaccuracies in the source text (for example "prehistoric Buddhist ruins", when Buddhism was not founded during prehistoric times)

Language Problems


 * Dialect terms and Neologisms (reshaping older language terms into a newer language form)
 * Unexplained acronyms and abbreviations
 * Obscure jargon(slang)

Other problems


 * Rhymes, puns and poetic meters
 * Highly specific cultural terms
 * Subtle but important properties of language such as euphony (prose) or dissonance (deliberate avoidance of repeated vowel sounds)

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