Help:Editing/Translation

The IntactiWiki is set up with various language instances, currently supporting 13 languages. The most articles have been created in the English and German IntactiWiki so far.

You want to translate articles from one IntactiWiki language instance to another? Here we go. (The following description uses English as the source and German as the target language.)

1. Find the English article you want to translate.
2. Decide whether the English title of the article itself also has to be translated, or if it can be taken literally for the German version, too.
3. Create the German article page.
4. Copy the English article content into the German article.
5. Translate everything. Don't save the German article until you're done and the result is acceptable for you.

These are the basic steps. Now you get more details about how to do these steps.

Find the source article you want to translate

Chances are that you want to translate an article of the wide range of IntactWiki articles that have been incorporated into the IntactiWiki recently. So your best starting point is the Discussion page of the IntactWiki article where you will find lists of all IntactWiki articles and categories.

Do you have to translate the title?

The title of an article is the one you use to create the article. It will be used as the wiki link later. Basically it's a good idea to translate everything properly into the target language, e.g. you would translate the article title Circumcision into Zirkumzision in German.

But there are article titles which must not be translated, e.g.

• proper names
• original titles of media
• person's names.

Create the target article page

There are different ways for creating new articles. If you want to translate an existing article, it's always recommended to open the target article page in a second browser tab.

1. As you may have known already, you create a new article page by entering its title into the search field and click on the red link the search result page gives you.
2. If the source article already has an interlanguage link to your target language, simply click on the language name in the navigation bar to open the target article page.

Copy the source article content

1. In the source article page, click the Edit button to see the wiki source. Select and copy it.
2. In the target article page (which probably is already opened in Edit mode), paste the copied source content.

Translate everything

You may find templates in the wiki source text (indicated by curly brackets {{}}). Chances are that the templates already exist in your language. Try and translate only the template content, not the template name and keywords themselves. The [Show preview] button will always show if your language misses a template. If you are familiar with writing templates, you may want to create the localized version of an existing template yourself. Or ask the WikiAdmin to create one for you.

Templates make translation much easier. Here is an example of the English article Gabriel Symonds.

Example source

This is the English wiki source of the article:

[[File:DOC gabriel-symonds.jpg|thumb|Gabriel Symonds]]
[[Gabriel Symonds]], MB, BS, is a British-born general practitioner, residing in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Symonds says, 
“I became aware of the barbarity of [[circumcision]] from hearing agonized screams when it was done in a clinic where I used to work. 
Since then I have campaigned for the abolition of non-therapeutic genital cutting of infants and children.”<ref>{{REFweb
 |quote=
 |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/about-us/#board-directors
 |title=Board of Directors and Advisors
 |last=
 |first=
 |publisher=[[D.O.C.]]
 |website=
 |date=2019
 |accessdate=2019-09-18
}}</ref>

{{REF}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Symonds, Gabriel}}

[[Category:Intactivist]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Japan]]
[[Category:UK]]

[[de:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]

Much stuff of this article's wiki source can easily be kept. The following shows the text to be translated (highlighted):

Example source (highlighted text to be translated)

 [[File:DOC gabriel-symonds.jpg|thumb|Gabriel Symonds]]
 [[Gabriel Symonds]], MB, BS, is a British-born general practitioner, residing in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Symonds says, 
“I became aware of the barbarity of circumcision from hearing agonized screams when it was done in a clinic where I used to work. 
Since then I have campaigned for the abolition of non-therapeutic genital cutting of infants and children.”<ref>{{REFweb
  |quote=
  |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/about-us/#board-directors
  |title=Board of Directors and Advisors
  |last=
  |first=
  |publisher=[[D.O.C.]]
  |website=
  |date=2019
  |accessdate=2019-09-18
 }}</ref>

 {{REF}}

 {{DEFAULTSORT:Symonds, Gabriel}}

 [[Category:Intactivist]]
 [[Category:Physician]]
 [[Category:Japan]]
 [[Category:UK]]

 [[de:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]

Example target, translated

 [[File:DOC gabriel-symonds.jpg|thumb|Gabriel Symonds]]
 [[Gabriel Symonds]], MB, BS, ist ein in Großbritannien geborener Allgemeinarzt mit Wohnsitz in Tokio, Japan. Dr. Symonds sagt:
„Ich wurde mir der Barbarei der Beschneidung durch das Hören qualvoller Schreie bewusst, als sie in einer Klinik durchgeführt wurde, in der ich früher gearbeitet habe.
Seitdem habe ich mich für die Abschaffung des nichttherapeutischen Genitalschnitts bei Säuglingen und Kindern eingesetzt.“<ref>{{REFweb
  |quote=
  |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/about-us/#board-directors
  |title=Verwaltungsrat und Berater
  |last=
  |first=
  |publisher=[[D.O.C.]]
  |website=
  |date=2019
  |accessdate=2019-09-18
 }}</ref>

 {{REF}}

 {{DEFAULTSORT:Symonds, Gabriel}}

 [[Kategorie:Intaktivist]]
 [[Kategorie:Arzt]]
 [[Kategorie:Japan]]
 [[Kategorie:Großbritannien]]

 [[en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]

You might want to compare the results in the English and German IntactiWiki.