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This page addresses translation within Wikimedia projects, lists available translators, and highlights messages and pages that need translating into every language. More general information can be found at multilingualism, Embassy, and Wikipedia languages.

Table of contents

1 About Translation within Wikimedia
2 How to Translate a Wikimedia article
3 Translators by "A" language

3.1 Languages with over 10,000 Wikipedia articles
3.2 Other languages
3.3 Footnotes

4 Translation Requests

About Translation within Wikimedia

There are thousands of multilingual editors in the WikiMedia community. Most spend all of their time on their own Wikis, oblivious to other communities. By the next press cycle in late August, we should be able to translate and distribute a press release across the world within a single day.

There is also a Translation practice course in the wikiversity: those who want to participate (translating or checking, there is need of both students and checkers) may go to the Spanish version or the English version.

How to Translate a Wikimedia article

To translate an article on Meta:, see . If you want to encourage translations into many languages at once, you can start by adding a multilingual sidebar like the one on this page. You may also list an article or quote below for translation into every wikipedia language.

To translate an article on Wikipedia, switch to the appropriate-language domain (e.g., fr.wikipedia.org for French) and create the translated page there; then add to both the original and the translated articles.

Translators by "A" language

Below is a list of available translators, ordered by their fluent languages. Help expand this list! Note how much time each translator has for translating. List people with multiple fluent languages separately under each fluent languages. (Fluent but not native-fluent speakers are marked with a *, and professional translators with a +)

Ratings by names follow the (ILR) scale, a 1-5 scale where 1 implies "elementary proficiency", 4 implies fluency ("full professional proficiency"), and 5 implies native/bilingual proficiency. Translators 2 or better in at least 4 languages are highlighted. (See link above for details. Rankings from the en: list of translators were converted as follows: native-->5 near-native-->4+ fluent-->4 mostly fluent-->3 moderate-->2)

Languages with over 10,000 Wikipedia articles

Dansk

- from En(3), No(3), Sv(3), De(3), Es(1)
- from En(3), No(3), Sv(3), De(3).
- from En(3), No(3), Sv(3), De(3), Nl(1)
- from No(5), Sv(3), En(3), De(3), Nds(1)

Deutsch

- von En(4), Fr(3+), Es(3+), Pt(3), Ct(2)
- von En(4), Fr(3), Eo(2), Ru(1)
- von En(4?), Fr(3+?)
* - to/from Nl(4+), En(4), It(4+)
- von En
- von En(5)
- von En(4)
- von En (4) (muttersprache), Tr (2)

English
(see the for more)

- from Es, Ro, De, Catalan, (here it gets shaky) It, Fr, Portuguese, (here it gets really shaky) Nl, and maybe simple passages in Slavic or Scandinavian langs, but it's like decryption.
* - from Ru(5), Fr(4?), Es(4?), It(2?)
* - from Ro(5), It(4?), Fr(2?)
* - to/from Dutch(4+), It(4+), De(4)
⁺ - from Fr(4+), Es(4+), It(4), Ca(3), Pt(2), De(1), Zh(1), La(1)
⁺ - from Fr(Joual(4), Fr(4)), De(2), Nl(2), Zh(Mandarin(1?)).
- from Eo(5), Fr(3), Ga(4), La(2)
- from Ar(5), Sk(5), Cs(5), Pl(3+)
- from Da(5), No(3), Sv(3), De(3), Es(1)
* - from De(5), Fr(3), Eo(2), Ru(1)
- from Latvian(5), Ru(4)
- from Eo, Es
+ - from Ru(5), Uk(2), Be(2)
- from Fr(5), Es(2?)
?? - from Es(2+), Vi(2) [Ed: ??]
- from Ja(5), Portuguese(2?)
- from De(1), Es(1), Fr(1), (all were 2+ once; in disuse)
- from Fr(4?), Eo(2?)
- from Fr(3)
- from Portuguese(3?)
- from Zh(simp(5), trad(4))
* - from Ru(5)
* - from De(5)
* - from Pl(5)
- from Ar
+ - from He(5)
- from Ko(4?)
- from Fr(4?)
- from Zh(5)
- from De (4), Tr (2)
- from He(5)
* + - from Finnish(4?)
* - from Nl(5)
* - from Pl(4), De(3)
* - from Ro(5)
* - from Nl(5)
- from Portuguese(4+)
- from Ja
- from De(5)
* - from Pl(5)
- from Ko(3?)
- from Nl(4?)
* - from Zh(simp(5), trad(5))
- from Es(4?)
* - from De(5)
- * + Slovenian (4), Serbian (4), Croatian (4)
- Irish(4?)

Español

* - de Ru(5), Fr(4), En(4), It(2)
- de Fr(5), Wa(5), En(3)
* - de En(5)
**?? - de En(2+), Vi(2)

Esperanto

- el Fr(5), En(3), De(2), Es(1), It(1), Ca(1)
- el En(5), Fr(3), Ga(4), La(2)

Français
(see the and for more)

* + - depuis Ru(5), En(4), Sp(4), It(2)
depuis eo(5), de(3), en(3), it(1), es(1), ca(1)
^* - from En(5), De(2), Nl(2), Zh(Mandarin(1?)).
- depuis Es(5), Wa(5), En(3)
- depuis En, It, De, Pl, Ru
- depuis En, De, (Nl)
- depuis En, De, Es, It
- depuis En, (No, Sv, Icelandic)
- depuis En
- depuis En, Nl
- depuis En(3)
- depuis En, Ja
- depuis En, It
- depuis En, No
* + - depuis De(5), Nl(5)
from En, Es: | | | | | | |

Italiano

- da En(4+), fr(4*), Es(3)
* - da Nl(4+), En(4), De(4)
- da En(4*), Fr(3), Es(2), De(2), Tr(2)
- da Pl(5), Fr(4), En(4), De(2), Ru(1)
* - da En(4), Es(3)
- da En(4+)
- da En
- da En(4)

Nederlands

* - to/from En(4), It(4+), De(4)
- from En(4)
- from En(4)

日本語 (ja)

- to/from En(2), De(2), It(1)
- to/from En(2)
- from En
- from En
- from En(5), Portuguese(2)
- from En (2)
- from En (2)
- from En (3)

Polski

- from It(5), En(4), Fr(4), De(2), Ru(1)
- from En(4)
- from En(4), De(3)
- from En(4)

Svenska

- from En(3-4), De(2)
- from En(3-4).
- from En (3-4)

中文 (zh)

- from En(5)
- from En(4)
- from Ru(3), En(1)
- to/from En(4)

Other languages

العربية ‬(ar:Arabic)
+ - from Sk(5), Cs(5), Pl(3+), En(3)
+
+ - from En(5)

Ελληνικά (el:Greek)
+ - from En(4), Fr(1)

Eesti
+ - from Bg, Bs, Be, Cs, Da, De, En, Es, Eo, Fr, Hr, Ia, It, La, Lt, Lv, Hu, Nl, No, Pl, Pt, Ro, Ru, Simple, Sk, Sl, Sr, Fi, Sv, Uk. (!)

Gaelige (Irish)
+ * - from En(5), Eo(5), Fr(3), La(2)
+ * - from En(5)

עברית (he:Hebrew)
+ - from En(5)
+ + - from He(5)
+ - En(5) He(5)

Latvian??
+ - from En(5), Ru(4)

Монгол хэл
+ - from Ja(5), En(2), Ru(1)

Norsk
+ - from Da(5), Sv(3), En(3), De(3), Nds(1)

Português
+* - from En(5)

Română
+ - from En(4), It(4), Fr(2)
+ - from En(4)
+ - from En(4), Fr(1), De(1)

Русский
+ - from En(4), Fr(4), Sp(4), It(2)
+ - from En(4)
- from En(4), Uk(2), Be(2)

Slovenian
+ - from En(4), Serbian (5), Croatian (5)

Tiếng Việt (vi)
+ - from En:(2), Es:(2+)

Walon
+ - From Es(5), Fr(5), En(3)
+ - From Fr(5), Ar(3), En(3)

Footnotes

^* Fluent (but not native) speaker of target language.
⁺ Has worked professionally as a translator.

Translation Requests

(for translation into every language) For a broader audience, see single-lang pages : (fr), (en), etc. There is a backlog of requests for de-to-en and fr-to-en translations on the latter page.

Donation message (translations on individual wikis, at MediaWiki%3AFundraising notice): ~~banner message (about donations) into as many languages as possible. 09:55, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)~~ Thanks to everyone who helped with this; it should not be needed again in the near future (and may appear, if at all, at the bottom of pages).
New upload form (translations): Elements on three new pages, to be used for image uploads, need translating. Mostly-finished translations in Bg, De, En, Fr, & Nl need polishing; all other langs need to be started (as of July 21).
Translation (this page) : Please translate the text of this page (except for the list of translators; just link back to #Translators by "A" language on this page), to improve exposure to multilingual Wikimedians who do not read English.
Press clippings : not quite translation per se; this page needs media quotes in many languages. Please migrate or copy quotes from local wikipedias here.
cy: has an "If you don't speak Welsh..." message which is planned to appear on its front page: . We're hoping to have this in as many languages as possible; if you can help, please drop by. 18:53, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Older all-language translation efforts
...for reference, and to eventually keep them all in one place.

provisional WP portal from 2003-2004

see also: Machine Translation Project