Translate Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia pages may be translated, because they all have a CC BY-SA license. But you require to mention the sourcing message.

Luckily there exist a nice built-in translation tool.

How to start

1. Search your article in the source language
   • Verify if it is noteable
2. Click on Languages -> Add languages -> Translate this page
3. (choose your target language)
4. Translate all sections
5. Save your new pages
6. Make corrections (visual editor, wiki code editor)

Advantages

• Templates, links, and references are automatically translated.

Disadvantages

• Poor translation quality
• You still need to do copywriting
• Can fail, unable to save the results

Tips and tricks

• Translate by section (not the complete page)

Manual corrections

• Recreate the references automatically:
  • Copy the URL
  • Copy the ISBN
• Using the (source) visual editor
  • You might try to copy the references as such
    • Possible manual correction afterwards

Manual translation techniques

Translator tools

DeepL

• excellent translation quality (uses artificial intelligence)
• knows and understands the grammer
• Windows client application
• free version available (source text is limited to 5000 characters)
• Disadvantage: still manually to do: internal link translation, references, categories

Sourcing message

Depending on the language, you need to provide a sourcing message, ether in the body text, or on the talk page: (examples)

• nl:Bronvermelding anderstalige Wikipedia Appendix {{Bronvermelding anderstalige Wikipedia|taal=fr|titel=Marie Danse|oldid=179193596}}
• fr:Notes et références: {{Traduction/Référence|nl|Jules Wieme|53745493|type=note}}
• de:Diskussion:SABIN: {{Übersetzung|ARTIKEL=SABIN|REVID=196127038|ISO=nl|FREMDLEMMA=SABIN|FREMDREVID=55521124|FREMDDATUM=24 jan 2020 11:11‎ UTC}}
• en:Talk:Jules Wieme: {{Translated page|nl|Jules Wieme|version=53745493}}