Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer tasks/Guidance translation guide

There is a particular component of the newcomer tasks project that may be challenging or confusing to translate: guidance. Guidance contains the instructions newcomers receive as they are completing an editing task, and they contain many interconnected translatable messages.

This page is a guide for people translating the messages to show how the messages are used and how they relate to each other.

Guidance is inside the help panel
While doing newcomer tasks, newcomers receive instruction through the help panel feature. The help panel is a window that opens up on Wikipedia articles. Though it was originally built to help newcomers in other ways, we are using it to also guide newcomers through doing editing tasks. The images here shows the help panel on desktop and mobile.

Multiple task types
As of June 2020, there are five different types of editing tasks that newcomers can select: adding links, copyediting, adding references, updating articles, and expanding articles. Each of those has its own set of content in the help panel. Therefore, there are five sets of messages to translate.

Multiple tips
For each task type, there are up to seven "tips" that the newcomer can navigate. They explain how to do the edit, one step at a time. Each tip can have multiple components: