How to translate

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This page will explain the translation process in the wiki. If you want to contribute to the wiki translation, you are in the good place! Here are informations about translation and on current good practices in.

Translation basics
On a page is completed, it is marked for translation. To translate this page, just click on the "Translate this page" button at the top of the page, select a language, and voilà! You can begin the translation.

Translatable pages are divided in translation units, called "messages". Each unit is independent of the others. This makes it possible to translate the text step by step, and also makes it easier to monitor the translation.

Once a language for translation is validated, a new page is created, with a new link "Page_name/language_code". For example, "fr" is the language code for French and the link for the French translation of this page is  How to translate/fr ; for German, it is "de" and  How to translate/de, etc.

On the original (English) page, the new available language for this page appears in the language banner.

You can return to the translation at any time. The percentage of unit translation is displayed at top of translated page, and by colored squares on the language banner.

If the original page have been modified since your first translation, the modified tetx will be highlighted in red. In this case, the outdated messages will be notified by a small yellow clock icon, and available in the "outdated" tab in the translation menu.

If a complete page is not yet available to translation, this is probably because the translation administrators has not yet validated the complete page (see section below).

About
If you have any questions on the meaning of a sentence, feel free to create to create a talk for the translated page. More generally, if you have any questions about translation process or sentence meaning, you can contact members on TMQ Discord.