Help:Extension:ContentTranslation/en

Welcome to Content Translation!

Content Translation is a tool that helps editors to translate pages between languages. It helps translators to focus on typing the translation text instead of thinking about manual formatting, categories, links, images, etc.

Enabling ContentTranslation
At the moment ContentTranslation is a Beta Feature. To use it you need to log into your account and to enable the feature in your beta preferences. To do this, click at the top of the page, check  and save the page.

The Dashboard
The dashboard is the main entry point to the translation interface.

Getting to the Dashboard
There are several ways to get to the dashboard:
 * 1) Hover your mouse pointer over the "" item in your personal menu at the top of the screen. In the menu that will appear click on "".
 * 2) Click the "", and then click the "" button at the top of the page.
 * 3) Find the article that you want to translate in the source language, and click the target language name in the interlanguage links list in the sidebar. (This will only work if the extension is installed in the wiki in the source language, and you enabled the beta feature there.)
 * 4) Go directly to Special:CX or Special:ContentTranslation.

Starting a Translation

 * 1) Click the "".
 * 2) Select the source language and type the name of the article that you want to translate.
 * 3) Select the target language and type the name of the translated article that you are creating. If the name will be the same in your language, you can leave this field blank.
 * 4) Click "" to start the translation!

The Translation Interface

 * 1) Type the translation of each paragraph in the translation column. You don't have to translate all the paragraphs. Translate as much as needed for the wiki in your language.
 * 2) Until you publish, the translation is regularly saved automatically, so you don't have to worry that you'll lose it. To come back to an article that you started translating, go back to the dashboard andT select the article from the list that you'll see.
 * 3) When you wrote everything you want for the first version of the new translated article, click "".

Continuing a translation
If you started translations to any language, they will appear in the dashboard. You can continue a translation by clicking on the item in the list.

You can also see a list of translations that you published by going to the dashboard and selecting "" instead of "".