Help:Translation Administration

Preparing Pages
Before anything translating can happen the page first needs to be prepared for translating. At the moment this is done by editors or administrators.

Special:PagePreparation

Enter the (default language) name of the page to be translated. Click Prepare. Review and unless something is REALLY wrong, hit save.

The results will give you an option to edit the page, this is were you can really take a look at the results and fix problems.

Edit/Review
Often the page prep omits templates from the  ...  blocks. You can fix that here, by moving around text or removing the /translate-translate tags pairs.

For example: 

This omits the Infobox from the translation, which is suboptimal. We can fix by changing to:



Deleting the /translate tag and the following translate, removing the exception around the Infobox.

Mark for Translation
Once this page has been saved you'll see a "Mark this page for translation" link under the title. Click that to pass the page on to the translation teams. Review translation blocks. Hit the button on the bottom.

Updating Page
Once a page has been translated, the original page can still be edited. There will not be a refresh in the translation blocks until administrative action is taken. This action works a lot like the Mark for Translation step above. It basically reruns that marking process and updates the appropriate translation blocks.