Template:Import/doc
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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:
This article may be expanded with text translated from a corresponding article in another language. Click [show] for important translation instructions.
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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:
This article may be expanded with text translated from a corresponding article in another language. Click [show] for important translation instructions.
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| Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |
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
For languages with over 200 translation requests (currently Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish), the topic= parameter may be used to sort into a variety of standard categories:
topic=bio
Biographytopic=geo
Geographytopic=gov
Government and politicstopic=culture
Culturetopic=hist
Historytopic=sci
Science and technologytopic=sport
Sportstopic=transport
Transporttopic=struct
Building and structure
Custom categories may also be added on a per-language basis as needed.