MobileRead:Language policy

This page describes the current multi-lingual policy on wiki.mobileread.com.

Guidelines

• English is the main reference language, and all root pages should be named and written in English.
• Other languages should be placed in an appropriately named sub-page of the English version. E.g. the French version of Cybook_Gen3_Tips_and_Troubleshooting should be at Cybook_Gen3_Tips_and_Troubleshooting/fr (not Cybook_Gen3_Astuces_et_Conseil_d_utilisation or Cybook_Gen3_Astuces_et_Conseil_d_utilisation/fr).
• Language sub-pages should be named using the appropriate language code for that language (see below).
• Sub-pages should only be used for translations into other languages, not for English content (e.g. you shouldn't use Table editing/example - use Table editing example or Example of table editing instead).
• If an international version of a page exists but an English version does not, then please create a stub article for the English version as this aids navigation.
• All pages in the help namespace should be tagged with the {{Languages}} template, which automatically creates links to all available translations.

Language codes

Throughout wiki.mobileread.com you should use the language codes specified by the MediaWiki software when creating language-specific content (see iso639 standard for the full and up-to-date list).

A few selected languages Translations

• en (English) default, no extension needed.
• de (German) Deutsch Forum available
• es (Spanish) Español Forum available
• fr (French) Français Forum available
• ru (Russian) Русский
• zh (Chinese) 中文

No official pages in this wiki.

• it (Italian)
• pt (Portuguese)
• nl (Dutch) Nederlands (has a page)
• ja (Japanese)

Standardized translations

Sometimes a technical term can be difficult to translate from one language to another. To help with this effort a Word list page has been developed that can be used to list standard words and to provide a place to talk about which word might be the best.