Language Admin help

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Contents 1 Preferences 2 Translating menus 3 Editing a page 4 Edit box 5 Changing links 6 Changing templates 7 Redirects

Preferences

• Select my preferences in the top right corner
• Select the Watchlist tab
• turn on the last 4 options: 'Add pages I create/edit/move/delete to my watchlist'

Note: You will not see the final 3 options until you have edit permissions on the wiki given to you.

Optional: Under user profile you can supply an email and then use the selection boxes to have changes made to pages you watch emailed to you.

Translating menus

If you haven't filled out the menu template for your language please do so. I may ask periodically for other menu item translations. To do this:

• go to the Template:All_menus page
• click the edit tab
• copy the contents and create a page with called Template:All menus/xx where xx is your country code. If it is not there it can be added if you make a request in the Language Admin forum.

Editing a page

The best place to start the first time is the Main Page (you should start translating rules and guide first, avoid pages that say they are incomplete to avoid rewriting sections.)

• At the top of the English article click the 'watch' tab. Any changes to the English version will now show up in your watchlist (top right menu and be emailed to you if you set that option.)
• Click the edit tab
• select the entire English page code/text and copy it.
• The URL will look like this: Main_Page, change it to Main_Page/nl, where the nl is your country code.
• Edit this page, pasting the English version into it.
• You will need to add a language appropriate title at the very top of the page. E.g. =My title=
• In the Table of contents template (which should be just under the main title you added) change the language code. E.g. {{TOC|guide|lang=nl}}
• You can now translate the rest of the page text. Don't translate the names of templates (In the {{ }} brackets, this will be covered later.

Note: It may take a few minutes for your language to show up in the Language bar at the bottom of a page you create.

Edit box

At the bottom of the edit window is a small box that has a drop down menu. You can use this to access special language characters if needed. More characters can be added to any section if you need them.

Changing links

In the wiki links look like this [[Main Page]] or this [[Main Page|the home page]]. In both case the link goes to main page. In the second example the display text is different though (the home page).

Now your link may be red and you need to create that page. Follow the editing instructions above to copy the English over and make the new page. To change a link for a language:

• add the /pt after the page link for your language
• add a pipe | if one doesn't exist
• add the translated text

Changing templates

Templates are like pages, but you can call them up and use them to populate pages and other great things. They look like this: {{Most recent rule changes}}

Editing a template is almost the exact same as editing a page. The key difference is you don't translate the template name, just add the /pl and then translate the text on the page.

Many templates do not need to be translated. The {{TOC}} and {{Languages}} template are two examples. They are functionality templates.

Redirects

What do you do when you don't have the translated page and can't get to it for a while or is not going to be translated? You can redirect it to the English version until later.

• create the page
• and this on the page: #REDIRECT[[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]