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BABYLON
the Wikimedia translators' portal/noticeboard

Babylon is the Meta translations portal and noticeboard. For general discussions about translations see the talk page.

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Getting started

• Introduction to Wikimedia translations
• Tutorial for translators
• What language do you speak?
• Short introductions for translators who are new to the Wikimedia movement

Communications

• Babylon talk page

  If you have questions, doubts, proposals and anything else about translations you want to ask, write at this page.

• Translators mailing list

  The official Wikimedia translators' mailing list. Sign up!

• #wikimedia-translation^connect

  The official translator's IRC channel. Visit us when you need help, just want to chat, or for updates on new requests!

• Translators newsletter

  Alternative to the mailing list, with on-wiki newsletter that will send you a notification.

Translation requests

Automagical page listing all translation requests on Meta-Wiki with the new system (see Translate extension help).

Direct links:

• How to request a translation
• CentralNotice – sitewide banner which is translated on Meta
• MediaWiki localization (on the translatewiki.net site)

Sign up to be a translator

• It is now easy to sign up as a translator to receive notifications when there is new material that needs translation into your language.
• Just go to this page to sign up:

  Special:TranslatorSignup

• On the same page you can also unsubscribe.
• Add yourself to the list of the currently active tech translators.

Translations issues on Wikimedia projects

Translation of the week

Translation of the week here on Meta-Wiki is a project to add articles to Wikipedias where they do not exist by translating them.

Wikispelling

Contrarily to what we translators may think ;-), things should not always be translated. That is why Wikispelling was created, in order to avoid misspelling of proper nouns and local names. Wikispelling is a trans-wiki and multilingual project. Please help by checking the translation in your own language of commit messages at Wikispelling. And feel free to participate!

Capitalization of Wiktionary pages

Languages have different rules regarding capitalization. For example, in English, the month names and most words of work titles are always capitalized, but in French they are not. Most Wiktionary projects differentiate nowadays between capitalized letters and small letters. Wiktionary needs to know what rules each language has regarding capitalization. Please help to complete the table of capitalization!

WikiProject Translation on Wikisource

An initiative to coordinate between various Wikisource language wikis in the gathering of old translations and the creation of new ones for source texts that have never been translated or have only copyrighted translations et cetera. Hosted on English Wikisource.

About localisation

Information about localisation for both translators and developers can be found on the localisation page on MediaWiki.org.

You can read some useful tips on Amir’s blog.

Long-term translation strategy

You can read and discuss ideas about how to work with translations on the Translation strategy page.