Help:Content translation/Starting/Dashboard

The Translation Dashboard is the central place where your translation activity starts. You can manage your translations, start new ones, explore suggestions for articles to translate, and check your translation progress.

You can access the dashboard through your contributions page, searching for "Special:ContentTranslation" (or "Special:CX") in your wiki's search box, or keeping a direct link to it.

The translation dashboard is available in Wikipedia for all languages, and it provides an unified view regardless of the specific language wiki you access it from. That is, you'll see the same unified list of all your translations if you access Content Translation in Japanese, French, or Swahili.

The dashboard provides different views for translations in different stages (suggestions, in-progress, and published), as well as functionality to start a translation of your choice ("New translation"), statistics for you to track your progress, and additional help. These elements are described below in more detail.

New translation
The "New translation" button allows to quickly start a new translation. A multi-step dialog will let you search for an article to translate and start the translation. These are the steps in more detail:


 * 1) Select "New translation" from the dashboard. The blue button is available on top of the dashboard and it is available from all the different views of the dashboard for easy access.
 * 2) Search for the article you want to translate. As you type the article title, suggestions will appear. These will show images and descriptions when available for you to confirm the article is about the topic you expected. In addition, the number of languages in which the article is available is shown with an additional indicator highlighting it is missing on some language you may know. Note that the language used for searching is indicated at the end of the search bar. You can change the language used to search for articles to translate in a different language.
 * 3) Confirm the selection. Once you selected the page to translate, you can select the language you want to translate the content into, or adjust the language to translate from. Selecting the page title allows to open the article to explore the contents in more detail. The number of views the page has in the source wiki is also surfaced to give an idea of how demanded the content may be if translated. When you are ready to start the translation you just need to select "Start translation".

It is possible to start a translation for an article that already exists

In progress translations
Once you start a translation, your changes will be saved automatically. You can continue editing your translation anytime, until you decide to publish it.

It will show you the progress

Translations in progress cannot be started by other users for the same language pair.