Translations

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Linking to a page translation[edit | edit source]

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To include a link to a translation of a page (whether or not the translation yet exists), insert (for each language) a line as follows:

[[es:Name of Page in Spanish]]

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The link will add the language toolbar to the page and include the appropriate inter-language link.

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Potential Translation Problems

General Problems

Though translation itself can be very difficult, there are some additional problem that could arise such as:

Changes made to the text during the translation process
Illegible text
Misspelled or misprinted text
Incomplete text
Poorly written text
Missing references in the text (for example the translator is to translate captions to missing photos)
The source text contains a translation of a quotation that was originally made in the target language, and the original text is unavailable, making word-for-word quoting nearly impossible
Obvious inaccuracies in the source text (for example "prehistoric Buddhist ruins", when Buddhism was not founded during prehistoric times)

Language Problems

Dialect terms and Neologisms (reshaping older language terms into a newer language form)
Unexplained acronyms and abbreviations
Obscure jargon(slang)

Other problems

Rhymes, puns and poetic meters
Highly specific cultural terms
Subtle but important properties of language such as euphony (prose) or dissonance (deliberate avoidance of repeated vowel sounds)

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