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Translation of text in images to English
I could not find a guideline of what to do in order to translate foreign text to English in an image from Commons being used in the English Wikipedia. I listed such an image at WP:PNT, and it was removed with the reason of "not in scope". See Wikipedia talk:PNT#Restore the removed entry for OLAP cube.
I looked at the archives and found multiple image queries unanswered in terms of guideline:
- Wikipedia talk:Pages needing translation into English/Archive 2#Translation of images
- Wikipedia talk:Translation/Archive 3#Translation of text in images. (The Resolved note indicates that the oddly named commons:Template:Requested translations page on Commons is one place where this can be done.)
- Wikipedia talk:Translation/Archive 4#Images with text
Can we have a one-liner on what is expected? Jay (talk) 19:23, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
- Created an Images section with the direction from Talk:OLAP cube#Non-English text inside images. Jay (Talk) 06:54, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Interlang policy shortcuts table grid
In doing translations, I sometimes want to check Wikipedia policies and guidelines in other language Wikipedias, but I can never remember the shortcuts, and it's such a pain to go find them. I finally got tired of it, and wrote myself a table of them, to make it easy:
It's not releasable because it's tailored to my own needs, so it's still in my sandbox user space, and there's no doc page, and but maybe others might find it useful. The rows are the stuff I tend to want to look up, without making the table too long. It currently has six static columns for the languages I'm most interested in (en de fr es ru it) and seven additional language columns you can pull in with parameters (pt nl ca pl sv zh ja). The example above shows the basic six, + ca/nl/pt added via parameters. If there's interest, I could add simple doc, and maybe finish the parametrization to make all the columns fully dynamic. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
Please see WP:ANI#New user rapidly creating pages, possibly unattributed translations from other wikis
Turns out this is a University sponsored event asking editors to translate articles from other Wikis, part of a course and with a cash prize. It seems to be a number of editors doing this and it's also been raised at Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 21#Project #KMUOS. As they aren't attributed it's a copyright problem. Doug Weller talk 11:22, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Women in Red translation contest: April to June 2022
At the beginning of April, WikiProject Women in Red is launching a three-month translation contest focused on increasing our coverage of women's biographies.--Ipigott (talk) 09:51, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Expand Bashkir
Template:Expand Bashkir has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:42, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Translation of articles written in foreign language
Just stumbled over this one: Villa Fundación, an article in EN Wikipedia written (years ago) completely in Spanish. Where can I turn to to find someone who would translate that into English? And is there something like a tag "wrong language" to mark such articles? I suppose this is not the only case where an article in EN WP is not written in English. --Proofreader (talk) 18:07, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Okay, just found the respective template: [1]. --Proofreader (talk) 18:10, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- if you look at the article history, it was previously an English-language stub. Since this cites a source, and the new Spanish version cites none, I've reverted it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Proofreader: to answer your original question, there are Categories where you can search for someone who can help. You can start at Category:Translators es-en (around 480 members), and then try Category:User es-3 (2,600), Category:User es-4 (926), Category:User es-5 (365), or Category:User es-N (3,965). The problem with the categories, is you can't easily determine who was active this week, and who hasn't edited since 2011, so you have to check, one by one, which can be time-consuming, but if you persist, you will find them. (Count on 10% or less still active.)
- Or, use the PetScan tool to limit results to active users; for example: users in Category:Translators es-en whose User or Talk page has been edited since 7 April shows these five results. Or, list users who rate themselves es-3, es-4, es-5, or es-N and have edited since 14 April, to show these 39 users. Hope this helps. Mathglot (talk) 05:57, 22 April 2022 (UTC)