Wikieducator tutorial/Translations

Request: please improve this towards high WikiEducator standards :-), and then insert it if appropriate (e.g.) right after the tutorial on Navigation Templates.

This page describes ways of presenting learning resources (wiki pages) in more than one language.

Whole Courses
If the resource is a whole course which would need significant localisation, it is probably best placed in the target language instance of WikiEducator (e.g. for French: http://fr.wikieducator.org ) under an appropriate name. If you do this, cross-reference resources by inserting a cross-wiki link as follows:


 * e.g. For an English page on Free software, refer to the French version by inserting:
 * to refer to the Spanish version:
 * etc. (Check that the target pages exist first!)

This will create links at the bottom of the left-hand panel of the WikiEducator page. See the Software libre page for an example.

Page Translations
If the resource is a wiki page which would benefit with multiple language versions, then use the Languages template which provides a navigation bar to the various translations.

The English page serves as the "base". The French page would be created as a sub-page of the English page called /fr, the Spanish version of the page would be /es , the Chinese version of the page would be /zh , etc.

At the top of each page (i.e. the English version, the French/Chinese/etc. version) insert the following:



For example, for this page (called "Wikieducator tutorial/Translations"  ) insert:



Then create the translation pages as sub-pages of the English page.

For example, for this page, the French translation would go into: [[Wikieducator tutorial/Translations/fr ]] ,

the Chinese translation would go into [[Wikieducator tutorial/Translations/zh ]]

etc.

At the top of both of those new pages (for French and Chinese) insert the same template reference:


 *  

For this page's translations that would be:


 *  .

Then, have a bilingual person translate the English placing the result into the target page.

e.g. for French: [[Wikieducator tutorial/Translations/fr ]].

If you would like each page to have the title in the target language, then insert:


 *  

Click on the other language links above to see this.

Another example: the page on Software libre.

These navigation bars can be themed - examples.

PS For the above to work on one of the other WE localisations, the Languages template would have to be set up there.