GRASS-Wiki:Language policy

You want to translate pages of this Wiki? Great, read on! This page describes the current multi-lingual policy on GRASS-Wiki. All pages get auto-indexed after a few minutes and the language link appears on the left in the menu.

Page title

The English version of our front page is located at GRASS-Wiki. Translated versions are located at GRASS-Wiki/code, where code is the language code (e.g. GRASS-Wiki/cs for Czech language). It is important to follow the language codes rules in order to enable Mediawiki to auto-index the translation (for language codes, see below).

When you start translating a page to a new language, its name must follow this convention:

Original name/code

for example, a page with the Czech translation of GRASS Community will be called "GRASS Community/cs", Indonesian is "GRASS Community/id", for German it becomes "GRASS Community/de" etc.

Category Languages/code

Translated pages are collected based on category "Languages/code", see e.g. list of pages translated to Czech.

The rule is: non-English pages must contain at bottom

[[Category:Languages/code]]

i.e. for Czech it is Category:Languages/cs, German Category:Languages/de, etc.

Template "Trans"

We have the template Trans for master pages which are undergoing the process of translation. Please add it if you don't complete the translation so that you/others can easily find it back:

{{Trans|Russian|English}}

This template is to be removed when the translation of the page is finished.

Language codes

Throughout the GRASS-Wiki, you should use the language codes specified by the MediaWiki software when creating language-specific content (see Names.php for the full and up-to-date list).

Please also bear the following in mind (but this won't apply to the majority of languages!):

• If the language code is not found in Names.php then we should not host help pages in that language (since the indexing mechanism would fail)

• If you want to add a language that is not present in Mediawiki, first get it added to the software (by making a request at Bugzilla) and only add pages here once the changes have been accepted and the GRASS Wiki been updated accordingly.

• If MediaWiki uses the 'incorrect' code for a language then you should also (for consistency) use that incorrect code here. If you think a code is incorrect you should discuss it on Bugzilla, and if this results in it being changed we will move the pages to match.

• Note that some language codes in Names.php are now deprecated (e.g. zh-yue has been replaced with yue). In these cases only the most recent code should be used.