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Team Fortress Wiki is capable of handling multilingual content and providing the reader a user interface in their preferred language. Multilingual editors are encouraged to translate and maintain articles in as many different languages as possible to reach the whole TF2 global community. Maintaining up to date translated articles is very important and it should be noted that it is preferential to have an up to date English article, rather than an out of date translated one.

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How to translate a page

Follow these guidelines to start translating an article.

  1. Check that your language is supported (see List of supported languages below). We support all languages that have official in-game translations.
  2. Go to the English version of the article's page and click "Edit this page". Select everything in the box and copy it.
  3. Navigate to the new language by adding "/LANGUAGE" to the end of the article where LANGUAGE is replaced with the ISO code of the language you wish to translate to, found Here
    Example: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Scout/fr
  4. Paste the code of the English page to the new one
    The French version of the article "Hats" would be Hats/fr, not Chapeaux, Hats/Chapeaux or Chapeaux/fr
  5. Add the template {{Trans}} to the top of the page. This keeps all incompleted articles in your language together.
    You do not need to add {{Trans|French}} (for example), only {{trans}} or {{translate}} is required.
  6. Use {{DISPLAYTITLE:abcxyz}} to show a translated title.
    For example: {{DISPLAYTITLE:Flammenwerfer}} would show the title "Flammenwerfer" while keeping the real article title as "Flamethrower/de".
    The display title can also be set by the infobox (see below).
  7. Change the categories at the bottom of the page.
    For example: [[Category:Lists]] becomes [[Category:Lists/fr]]. Do this for all categories at the bottom of the page.
  8. You can now translate the rest of the article. Note that some text is stored in other pages (called "templates"). To translate these you will have to edit them individually.
    You might want to make use of localization files in order to use correct names and descriptions.

Translation community

Each language has its own main discussion page at Team Fortress Wiki:Translation progress. You can also find statistics about your language's translation effort here.

Please also join the TF Wiki Translators Steam Group and watch the translators' noticeboard (click the 'watch' tab at the top). This will ensure you stay on top of any changes or announcements.

Multilingual guidelines

Automated translation tools

Pictogram comment.png Note: please report any pages that consist of entirely machine-translated text (or any users that appear to repeatedly use these tools) to the translators' noticeboard.

On-wiki communication

These requirements allow staff and fellow editors to keep up to date with every aspect of translation.

Articles

Templates

The majority of templates should use translation switching, with the exception of some navigational boxes. Previously it was necessary to create a localized version of a template, e.g. Template:Hat infobox/ru. Now localized text is stored in one template, where text for all languages is stored. Please see Help:Translation switching for further information.

List of supported languages

Team Fortress Wiki supports language translation of articles into 22 languages, the majority of which have localization files for TF2. The languages highlighted in the table below are exceptions to the rule. Czech is being actively translated on STS and may have localization files appear in the game soon, and support for Arabic has been extended due to the amount of existing Arabic content.

Pictogram comment.png Note: there are no plans to add support for any further languages at this time. Support for the translation of articles into a specific language will now only be considered if there are localization files present in the game. The reasoning for this is that the workload for translators who do not have support from the Steam Translation Server (in the form of word lists, nouns, etc, and proper discussion channels) is significantly higher. The amount of active translators is also less, meaning pages can quickly become out of date.
Please do not make requests to moderators or on the talk page regarding requests, our stance at this time is not changing.
ISO639-1 code Name in English
English
ar Arabic
cs Czech
da Danish
de German
es Spanish
fi Finnish
fr French
hu Hungarian
it Italian
ja Japanese
ko Korean
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
pt-br Portuguese (Brazil)
ro Romanian
ru Russian
sv Swedish
tr Turkish
zh-hans Chinese (Simplified)
zh-hant Chinese (Traditional)
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