Help:i18n

Stolen from the Arch Wiki.

Guidelines

Article titles

Non-English article titles should be of the form Title in English (Language) where "Language" is the localized spelling of said language. For example: Beginners' Guide (Français). English titles should not include a language tag. See #Languages for a list of languages and expected localized spellings.

Rationale:

• English titles facilitate administration; all admins and sysops understand English, but may not be bilingual. When browsing Special:RecentChanges and other special pages, admins need to know what is being edited without resorting to external translation programs.
• Standardized article titles simplify inter-language linking and allow for the creation of internationalization templates such as Template:i18n.

Localized redirects

Localized titles can and should be created, but must redirect to the English-named article as described above. Redirect titles need not include language tags. For example: Manuel du débutant redirets to Beginners' Guide (Français).

Rationale:

• Localized titles improve navigability for international readers. Both the internal search feature and external search engines can utilize such redirects.
• Useful redirects facilitate internal linking.

Inter-language links

Template:i18n should be included in every article to display a list of available translations by including the following wiki text at the beginning of the article:

{{i18n|Title in English}}

See Template:i18n for detailed usage instructions.

Rationale:

• Maintaining separate inter-language links for each translation is unrealistic and error-prone. Template:i18n makes use of standardized article titles described above to generate a complete and consistent list across translations.
• Including inter-language links at the beginning of an article allows international readers to promptly determine whether content is available in their language, and similarly allows translators to ascertain whether an article requires translation.

Languages

The following table lists all languages encountered on the wiki along with related links.

For information regarding the subtag, please see:

• http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
• http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt
• http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/

Language table

English	Localized	Subtag	Category
Bulgarian	Български	bg	Category:Български
Chinese (Simplified)	简体中文	zh-CN	Category:简体中文
Chinese (Traditional)	正體中文	zh-TW	Category:正體中文
Czech	Česky	cs	Category:Česky
Danish	Dansk	da	Category:Dansk
Dutch	Nederlands	nl	Category:Nederlands
English	English	en	Category:English
Finnish	Suomi	fi	Category:Suomi
French	Français	fr	Category:Français
German	Deutsch	de	Category:Deutsch
Greek	Ελληνικά	el	Category:Ελληνικά
Hebrew	עברית	he	Category:עברית
Hungarian	Magyar	hu	Category:Magyar
Indonesian	Indonesia (Bahasa Indonesia)	id	Category:Indonesia
Italian	Italiano	it	Category:Italiano
Japanese	日本語	ja	Category:日本語
Korean	한국어	ko	Category:한국어
Lithuanian	Lietuviškai	lt	Category:Lietuviškai
Persian	فارسی	fa	Category:فارسی
Polish	Polski	pl	Category:Polski
Portuguese	Português	pt	Category:Português
Romanian	Română	ro	Category:Română
Russian	Русский	ru	Category:Русский
Serbian	Српски (Srpski)	sr	Category:Српски
Slovak	Slovenský	sk	Category:Slovenský
Spanish	Español	es	Category:Español
Swedish	Svenska	sv	Category:Svenska
Thai	ไทย	th	Category:ไทย
Turkish	Türkçe	tr	Category:Türkçe
Ukrainian	Українська	uk	Category:Українська
Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	Category:Tiếng Việt
Arabic	عربي	ar	Category:عربي

Other Languages

Dansk – Deutsch – English – Español – Français – Indonesia – Italiano – Lietuviškai – Magyar – Nederlands – Polski – Português – Română – Slovenský – Suomi – Svenska – Türkçe – Česky – Ελληνικά – Български – Русский – Српски – Українська – עברית – ไทย – 日本語 – 正體中文 – 简体中文 – Tiếng Việt – 한국어
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