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Background

This template is used to mark articles that are better in a foreign-language Wikipedia than in English Wikipedia, and thus should be translated from that language into English.

Usage

To mark an article, tag it with {{Import|language}}.

For example, {{Import|French}} generates:

Template documentation[create]

A bot will be along shortly to add the correct interwiki link to the template, which will also add a Google translation link if Google is able to translate the relevant language. If you'd like to speed the process up, you can tag the article with {{Translate|language|article=articletitle}} instead. After the article parameter is added, the template will look like:

Template documentation[create]

This template places articles in the relevant subcategory of Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias.

Optional parameters

FA marking

Foreign language featured articles can be marked using fa=yes, as in {{Import|French|fa=yes}}.

Topic sorting

Languages with over 200 translation requests (currently Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish) may be sorted with the topic= parameter to sort into a variety of standard categories:

  • topic=bio → Biography
  • topic=geo → Geography
  • topic=gov → Government and politics
  • topic=culture → Culture
  • topic=hist → History
  • topic=sci → Science and technology
  • topic=sport → Sports
  • topic=transport → Transport
  • topic=struct → Building and structure

Custom categories may also be added on a per-language basis as needed.