Help:Content translation/Publishing

Publishing completes the translation process. When you publish a translation, a new page is created with the contents you translated. The result is a regular wiki page that is visible to the community of editors, and it will evolve independently with further contributions from you and other editors.

Publishing is an important decision point. You are creating an initial version of the page that will be reviewed by the community of editors. If you are not sure that the initial content meets the standard fo quality for the wiki, you may consider adjusting the publication options before publishing. Among the publish destinations you'll find options to publish your translation as a draft page where other editors can help you improve the content.

If the page you are translating already exists, you need to be careful with the existing content. By default publishing will override existing contents of the page (asking for confirmation first), but you may want to check the existing content first and do some work to keep valuable contributions users made to it.

More details about the options available and considerations about the published content are provided next.

Publishing options
Next to the "publish" button you can find a settings option to control how publishing is done.

Publish destinations
New page. Contents will be published as a new page in the main namespace.

Personal draft. A page will be published under your user namespace. While it is still visible for everyone, it is published in a place where you can iterate to improve the content without rush. Once you are happy with your draft, you can transfer these contents by copying to a new or existing page.

Community draft. On wikis where the draft namespace is available, you can publish your translation there.

Considerations on content quality
Warnings

The community will review your contribution.

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