Translate Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia pages can be mutually translated, because they all have a CC BY-SA license. But you require to mention a sourcing message.

Translation techniques

• Built-in translation
  • Advantages:
    • Templates and links are automatically translated
  • Disadvantages:
    • You can only choose for Google Translate
    • Poor translation quality
    • Can fail, unable to save the results
• DeepL:
  • excellent translation quality (uses artificial intelligence)
  • Windows client application
  • free version available (source text is limited to 5000 characters)

Tips and tricks

• Translate the page as rendered, not the wiki code
• Translate by section (not the complete page)
• Recreate the references automatically:
  • Copy the URL
  • Copy the ISBN
• Using the (source) visual editor
  • You might try to copy the references as such
    • Possible manual correction afterwards

Sourcing message

Depending on the language, you need to provide a sourcing message, ether in the body text, or on the Talk page: (examples)

• nl:Bronvermelding anderstalige Wikipedia Appendix {{Bronvermelding anderstalige Wikipedia|taal=fr|titel=Marie Danse|oldid=179193596}}
• fr:Notes et références: {{Traduction/Référence|nl|Jules Wieme|53745493|type=note}}
• de:Diskussion:SABIN: {{Übersetzung|ARTIKEL=SABIN|REVID=196127038|ISO=nl|FREMDLEMMA=SABIN|FREMDREVID=55521124|FREMDDATUM=24 jan 2020 11:11‎ UTC}}
• en:Talk:Jules Wieme: {{Translated page|nl|Jules Wieme|version=53745493}}