After searching for an article, you decide that you want to translate it
into your language
Method 1 of 2: Before you start
- Log in/sign up for a Wikipedia account. Note that you can only create articles when you're logged in.
- Get the hang of it. Learn how to edit Wikipedia's pages, and read the five pillars.
Method 2 of 2: Start Translating
- Look for an article in need to translate. For an example, look in the English Wikipedia for articles that doesn't have a link to the Italian translation. Wikipedia made a tool which could be found here to make it easy for you to look for articles that doesn't have a translated page.
- Start translating. Avoid using inaccurate translation tools, such as Google. Google translation tool is used for translating small words, not a whole article. If you're counting on such translation tools, then don't translate.
- You could translate by going to Wikipedia in the language you want, and create an article (the usual way), and then adding your translated version
3. Save
your changes.
After adding the translation in your article (in the other Wikipedia language
page), save your changes. Write in the edit summary that you translated this
article from the English article (or whatever language you translated from)
4. Add
the link to the English version. Write two brackets, the language name, and the article in
its language. Take the first two letters from the language you translated the
article from, and write them. E.g: English written as en . Here are some
examples:
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