Project:Language policy

This page describes the current multi-lingual policy on MediaWiki.org.

Help: namespace
Within the  namespace we are building a set of public domain help pages. The aim is to provide a basic set of help pages that may be imported into new wikis covering the basic editing and usage instructions. These should be translated into as many languages as possible.


 * English is the main reference language, and all root pages should be named and written in English.
 * Other languages should be placed in an appropriately named sub-page of the English version. E.g. the French version of Help:Contents should be at Help:Contents/fr (not Help:Sommaire, Aide:Sommaire or Help:Sommaire/fr).
 * Language sub-pages should be named using the Wikipedia prefix for that language.
 * If a Wikipedia has not been started in a language then we should not host help pages in that language.
 * Sub-pages should only be used for translations into other languages, not for English content.
 * If an international version of a page exists but an English version does not, then please create a stub article for the English version as this aids navigation.
 * All pages in the help namespace should be tagged with the  template, which automatically creates links to all available translations.

This system will be compatible with the automated import/export of Help pages, but may need a bit of working around to export/import non-English pages in the interim.

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