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Wikipedia is a multilingual project; as such, we may have articles on one subject available in many languages. The various languages each appear in semi-separate wikis, linked by interlanguage links.

Articles on the same subject in separate languages are independently editable and edited; they are not required to be translations of one another or to strictly maintain a correspondence in form, style, content, or attitude (so long as they all accord with the NPOV policy), though it is hoped that polyglots who work in multiple languages will help spread new information around between the articles in different languages. This page exists in support of that work.

Translating entire articles into another language can be helpful when getting started, but there are some caveats:

  • Translation is hard. Amateur translators tend to produce prose that is unnatural, and perhaps incorrect when it comes to specialized terminology.
  • Machine translation is much much worse. Never use machine translation to create an article!

This page exists as a place to request and to coordinate translations of articles from foreign-language Wikipedias into English. Creation of a similar page in any foreign-language Wikipedia is encouraged, but this page is not intended as a place to request translations in the opposite direction (i.e. from English to another language). That would belong on a meta-page of the appropriate Wikipedia.

Please note that for copyright reasons, this page is not for requesting translation of sources external to any Wikipedia. The exception to this is if you can also show that the license conditions of the source page would permit its redistribution under the GFDL, e.g. if the page is public ___domain or itself GFDL-ed, or if permission has been obtained from the author. In that case you should state the copying terms clearly with your request, including if relevant a link to a "terms and conditions" page of the source website.

See Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English for pages on the English Wikipedia that will shortly be deleted unless translated.

This page has two major sections:

Due to its length the list of translators has been moved to a separate page:

There are also Instructions on how to deal with pages needing translation.

This project was started on February 10, 2004.

Instructions

To request an article please add a level-3 heading and indicate:

  • Article: link to foreign-language article in the form [[:xx:Title]]. Remember the initial colon before the language code. Without it the link will point to the equivalent of this translation page in the specified language.
  • Corresponding English-language article: <article name> (or None); should be filled in if article already exists or if someone does a partial translation.
  • Worth doing because: Typically one or more of
    • No corresponding English article
    • Material to incorporate into English-language article
    • Seems to contradict English-language article
    • Specialized local knowledge
  • Originally Requested by: <user> <date> (use ~~~~)
  • Status: (originally) "Unclaimed".
    To take responsibility for the work, indicate "In progress <user> <date>".
    If you're finished with what you can handle, but there is more to do: "Partially translated by <user> <date>".
    One step past that might be "Translated, but review requested by <user> <date>".
    If it's finished, mark it "Complete <user> <date>" and move it (as described below).
  • Other notes: Anything else you want to add.
  • Supported: Other users can sign here to support the request.

Follow the last line with an HTML <br /> to keep the software happy: it does not preserve the presence of a blank line in a bullet list.

When writing a request on this page, you can also add {{translation request|LANGUAGE}} on the talk page of the equivalent English article, if one exists. Replace LANGUAGE with the language in which the original article is written. This produces the following message:

[[{{{pg}}}]]

The original article is in English.

Please do indicate in the references section of the newly created article that an article in a foreign-language Wikipedia was among your sources. For example, the references section of the article "Paragraph 175" begins, Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language wikipedia article (retrieved September 30, 2004). The following references are cited by that German-language article..." Note that something like this (without that last sentence) would be in order even if the German-language article did not cite any references of its own.

Also, please don't forget to add interwiki links all around.

When you complete work on an article, it would be polite to inform the original requester on his/her talk page, move this request to the talk page of the relevant article, and add an entry to Completed Translations.

After about 30 days, even that can be moved to Wikipedia:Translation archive

Requested Translations

Many languages

es:Magnoliidae - de:Magnolienähnliche - fr:Magnoliidae - it:Magnoliidae - nl:Magnoliidae - no:Magnoliaplanter - pl:Magnoliowe - sv:Magnoliidae - perhaps Magnoliidae -

Arabic-to-English

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Catalan-to-English

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  • Article: ca:Enric Valor i Vives (also in Spanish es:Enric Valor i Vives).
  • Corresponding English-language article: Enric Valor i Vives
  • Worth doing because:
    • No corresponding English-language article
    • Specialized local knowledge
  • Originally Requested by: Joanot 18:32, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: "Unclaimed"
  • Other notes: The English-language version is in current work, and there is also a more briefly text in Spanish.
  • Supported:


  • Article: ca:Frolinat
  • Corresponding English-language article: none
  • Worth doing because: Rebel group very important in Chadian history
  • Originally requested by: —Sesel 23:46, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: basic translation underway --Scotstvo 23:36, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes: none


Croatian-to-English

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Chinese-to-English

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  • Article: zh:罗湖区
  • Corresponding English-language article: Luohu
  • Worth doing because:
    • It is an important district in Shenzhen
    • Previous contents in Lo Wu need to be seperated to two articles because one is in Hong Kong side and another is in Shenzhen side.
  • Originally Requested by: Hello World!


Czech-to-English

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Danish-to-English

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Worth doing because: Castle w lots of pix



Dutch-to-English

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  • Article: nl:Auteursrecht
  • Corresponding English-language article: Netherlands copyright law
  • Worth doing because: Specialized local knowledge. We have servers in Amsterdam now, and several people say that we editors have to conform to the laws of the server country. It would be nice to know what we're going to be sued for.
  • Originally Requested by: --Yannick 02:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: Finished translation, review would be nice. Ivo van der Horst 2 July 2005 16:02 (UTC) The external links text still needs translation. Apart from that, good job, thanks. Fram 12:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes: when done, add link under Copyright#National copyright laws
  • Supported:


  • Article: nl:Begijnhof Amsterdam
  • Corresponding English-language article: Begijnhof, Amsterdam
  • Worth doing because: Historically very interesting: Amsterdam is in fashion. Links to article on the English Reformed Church.
  • Originally Requested by: --Doric Loon 5 July 2005 06:01 (UTC)
  • Status: I will give it a try. RaF (also user 84.84.155.128).
  • Other notes:
  • Supported:


  • Article: see texts on Jurriaan
  • Corresponding English-language article: Phelsuma and sub-articles
  • Worth doing because: these texts could complement the articles on Phelsuma and its species
  • Originally Requested by: Jurriaan 11:55, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: The author feels that the texts are not ready yet to publish them on any Wikipedia. Yet they could complement some English articles verry well if translated and edited.
  • Supported:


  • Article: nl:Douwe Dabbert
  • Corresponding English-language article: Douwe Dabbert
  • Worth doing because: among European comic, beside popular Belgian comic, i want to know more about this comic and the author, especially because in my country it only some title that translated when i was little, also i want to know if it ever translated in english and if yes, is the characters name changed? etc.. etc..
  • Originally requested by: Serene13 10 November 2005 16:33 (UTC)
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: None
  • Supported:


  • Article: nl:Douwe Egberts
  • Corresponding English-language article: Douwe Egberts
  • Worth doing because: Material to incorporate into EN article
  • Originally requested by: Cchan199206 28 June 2005 15:30 (UTC)
  • Status: Translated, but review requested by Ivo van der Horst 3 July 2005 13:40 (UTC)
  • Other notes: None
  • Supported:


  • Article: add to Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern from that page's listed "References"
  • Corresponding English-language article: Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
  • Worth doing because: Kern looks encyclopedic (since he's in other encyclopedias), but all the biographical information is in Dutch, which I can't read.
  • Originally Requested by: Quuxplusone 7 July 2005 17:35 (UTC)
  • Status: I have revised the translation of the book titles JoJan 19:40, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes: Needs someone to write a better article based on the Dutch references — not simply a (copyvio) translation. So this may not be the appropriate place to ask for it, but I don't know where else would find interested Dutch speakers.
  • Supported:


  • Article: nl:Anton de Kom
  • Corresponding English-language article: Anton de Kom
  • Worth doing because: Seems notable, he has a university named after him, he was included as #102 out of 203 people in a list of "Greatest Dutchmen/Dutchwomen" , but I can't really create an article about him because the most information I can find about him is in Dutch. The Dutch article has alot of information.
  • Originally Requested by: Revolución 21:18, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: Finished translation, please review. Toon81










Esperanto-to-English

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  • Article: eo:Interlingvao
  • Corresponding English-language article: Interlingua, Esperanto and Interlingua comparison
  • Worth doing because: Material to incorporate into English-language article
  • Originally Requested by: Itai 17:40, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: Esperanto articles appears to contain quite a lot of Esperanto-related information; this might call for the creation of a new article - Esperanto and Interlingua comparison, for instance - to accommodate this, rather than simply translate the lot into Interlingua.
  • Supported:



Estonian-to-English

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Finnish-to-English

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French-to-English

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30 to do. --Kewp 14:26, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Whole massive new batch of 300+ just added on! --Newnoise 16:18, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Most of these are either plants, animals or small communes if this interests you --Wonderfool t(c) 23:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes:
  • [1]





I will make a first effort at this translation. Mamawrites 02:55, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]


  • Article: [2]
  • Intended destination: PornDigger!
  • Worth doing because: Information on the subject is disappearing because the software seems to be no longer actively developed nor used, yet it is one of the biggest names specialised in image file sharing, in p2p file sharing history.
  • Originally requested by: --Easyas12c 6 July 2005 14:23 (UTC)
  • Notes to translators:
    • Write down in english all the usefull information from the www-article.
    • Don't remove the external link after translating because it has images and the Wikipedia article doesn't. The link should be removed only after both the translation has been done and we have pictures in the article. The link can be changed to point to an english article with pictures, if such is found.
    • Sorry that the source is not an Wikipedia article. Didn't find any other place to post this request. If you know, move it there and post a link on my talk page. So I'll know the right place in future.
  • Status: Still orphan
  • OPPOSE: Potential copyvio. Add subject to WP:RA if you want, but please don't request translation of non-WP source without first establishing that the copyright permits it. 80.229.160.150 20:10, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]



  • Article: fr:Finrod
  • Intended destination: Finrod_Felagund
  • Worth doing because: Much more developped biography in the french version
  • Originally requested by: Tailindil (See french profile) 82.253.90.200 21:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Notes to translators:
    • I originately wrote the biography, do not hesitate to contact me in french or english thru my talk page in the french wiki.
    • The Biography quotes a lot from The_Silmarillion, I think the quotes should be taken their original version rather than double-translated.
  • Status: 'leave it to you, kiddos.
    • I'll try to check it out at some point, but it strikes me as excessively long. I'm not sure how much of it needs to be included or how many of the quotes are really necessary. -Aranel ("Sarah") 01:55, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]



  • Article: various
  • Corresponding English-language article: French science fiction, Science fiction
  • Worth doing because: Extensive, interesting, useful information
  • Originally Requested by: Diderot 15:26, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: In progress
  • Other notes: This is an on-going personal project for which I would appreciate any help I can get. The French articles on science fiction have content which is original, interesting and quite different from related English content. I am trying to bring that material over to the English Wikipedia by adding content about Anglo-American and global science fiction to the relevant English pages, and by creating a set of new pages - a sort of micropedia - around French language science fiction in particular, with the article French science fiction acting as a hub. Also, this content should be referenced back to the French wikipedia and where it reveals gaps on the French side, stubs and translations ought to go up on the French side.

    If this sounds interesting to you and you can translate, just go over to French science fiction or to the French wikipedia and dive in, or if you can't translate, copy-edit and peer review translated articles.

    Diderot 15:26, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Could anyone give a list of articles for people to work on? -- Jmabel | Talk 05:28, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)


  • Article: fr:Occitan
  • Corresponding English-language article: Occitan language
  • Worth doing because: Material to incorporate into English-language article
  • Originally Requested by: Bogdangiusca 19:29, 7 Feb 2004
  • Status: In progress Nathan 02:06, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
    • I got about halfway through this but haven't been able to contribute in a few weeks. Feel free to take over, anyone. Nathan 12:46, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Other notes: Moved from Wikipedia:Requested article translations.
    • Suspicions. French version might not be impartial. Jackjeff 3 Apr 2004
      • There has clearly been some disagreement, partly over the very use of the word "Occitan" and whether it might not be a real language. It looks like maybe they've worked it out now Sbwoodside
      • This looks basically resolved; the article is a lot stronger than ours, it would be nice if someone would pick this one up. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:27, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've started work on it. This is quite a difficult translation I will only be able to provide a rough draft. Hopefully someone with a better knowledge of French will be able to fill in any gaps. --BadSeed 22:54, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)


  • Article: fr:Laïcité en France
  • Corresponding English-language article: Laïcité (but see notes below)
  • Worth doing because:
  • Originally Requested by: (anon, 4 April 2005)
  • Status: In progress --Deepsix 00:48, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Other notes:
    • There is already an article named Laïcité in the English wikipedia, though there has been some discussion on the Talk page (a while ago) about whether a move to Secularism in France would be appropriate. In any case this would probably be the correct place to incorporate any translation. SteveW 01:01, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)




I translated the history and leadership sections, but I do not have enough specialized accounting vocabulary to translate the sections with financial information in them. Mamawrites 11:07, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes:





see: User:Spiggot/Origin_of_water_on_earth
I'm willing to give this a go. Proposed titles would be en:Origin of earth's water (as proposed above) or en:Origin of water on earth. Comments?



  • Article: fr:Voile islamique en France
  • Corresponding English-language article: Islamic veil in France (discretion of translator)
  • Worth doing because: No page in English, but interesting becaues of law on secularity and conditions of Maghrebi population at the moment.
  • Originally Requested by: gren グレン 02:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: No article
  • Other notes: The article is not considered neutral and has much footnoting. It would be a difficult task I imagine since you would need to read the page, its discussion and have some background knowledge. However, I think it would be a great addition because it's an article very unique to French wikipedia right now.


  • Article: Hijab
  • Corresponding English-language article: Hijab
  • Worth doing because: Has interest sections "Le dévoilement" and "Sens contemporain" although other sections should be incorporated to flesh out what is missing in English.
  • Originally Requested by: gren グレン 02:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: (both were long articles at start)
  • Other notes: Since both articles are already fairly long it will be difficult to keep a balance and make sure there isn't redundancy. Also, French bias likely meets Anglo-bias so that should be watched out for.


  • Article: fr:Naissance d'un album de Tintin
  • Corresponding English-language article: Creation of a Tintin album
  • Worth doing because: There is no corresponding English article, this will help explain how comics are created, is specialised local knowledge and also helps reduce the bias that our comics articles currently have towards American comc books.
  • Originally Requested by: Steve block [[User talk:steve block|talk]] 13:41, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: "Unclaimed"
  • Other notes: If you need help on finding analagous terms please feel free to ask, my French is limited but my knowledge of comics isn't too bad.


Loose ends

The following seem to have been started, but somewhere along the way they didn't quite get finished. None show signs of recent active work as of Nov 21, 2004. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:55, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

Many French featured articles are very good and merit translation. Here's a sampling, or you can seek out your own.

  • Article: fr:Hiéroglyphe
  • Corresponding English-language article: Egyptian hieroglyph
  • Worth doing because: Much more extensive than English-language article. The French-language article is a featured article. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:40, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Originally Requested by: Jmabel | Talk 05:40, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: I abandoned it Pdehaye
  • Other notes:


  • Article: fr:Argot
  • Corresponding English-language article: Slang
  • Worth doing because: Material to incorporate into English-language article. The French-language article is a featured article. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:48, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Originally Requested by: -- Jmabel | Talk 05:48, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Status:
    • Translated some of it. Needs to be double-checked. Kwertii 18:51, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Other notes: Looks to me like what was done so far was fine. Could someone verify if there is still work to do? -- Jmabel | Talk 06:49, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)


  • Article: fr:Léon Blum
  • Corresponding English-language article: Léon Blum
  • Worth doing because: Material to incorporate into English-language article. The French-language article is a featured article. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:48, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Originally Requested by: -- Jmabel | Talk 05:48, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: In progress Psp 16:54, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes:


Wouldn't it be better to translate this and move it to Wikibooks:Cookbook? ♥purplefeltangel 23:26, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This was previously on wikipedia and transwikied to wikibooks. We have a copy at [3], but I have made some drastic assumptions about it based on bad translations, so help would be appreciated. Kellen T 21:49, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


First translation of 'social legacy' - could do with proofreading, rewording etc. Stevage 22:08, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]



  • Having read the French page, I'm not sure that it is sufficiently different from the English castle (which, like the château fort is a primarily defensive installation), even if it differs significantly from the French château (intended for pleasure) Vneiomazza 18:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]











German-to-English

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German to English translation requests are not listed here, but instead at

Please list requests there only so that potential German to English translators have the best chance of seeing these requests and there is minimal risk of duplicated efforts.

Artikel, die aus dem Deutschen ins Englische übersetzt werden sollen, bitte hier auflisten: Wikipedia:German-English translation requests damit mögliche Übersetzer sie nicht übersehen und sie nicht zweimal aufgelistet werden.

Greek-to-English

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Hebrew-to-English

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he:מיכה יוסף ברדיצ'בסקי



he:תעודת_זהות



he:משפחת ששון

  • Corresponding English-language article: Sassoon
  • Worth doing because: no article
  • Originally Requested by: --User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/sig 15:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: substub, disambiguation page
  • Other notes:
  • Supported: (;_;)







he:

  • Articles: zugot
  • Corresponding English-language article:
  • Worth doing because: no article
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: None
  • Supported:



he:סבוראים

  • Articles: savoraim, saboraim, sabora'im, savora'im
  • Corresponding English-language article:
  • Worth doing because: no article
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: None
  • Supported:



he:תנאים

  • Articles: tanna, tannaim, tanna'im
  • Corresponding English-language article:
  • Worth doing because: no article
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: None
  • Supported:



he:

  • Articles: [[]]
  • Corresponding English-language article:
  • Worth doing because: no article
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: None
  • Supported:



Hungarian-to-English

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*Article: hu:Herend

  • Corresponding English-language article: Herend
  • Worth doing because: a lot of
  • Originally Requested by: --Sheynhertz-Unbayg 08:10, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: stub
  • Supported:

*Article: hu:Budapest kerületei

*Article: hu:Dunaszerdahely

*Article: hu:Ganz Ábrahám

Icelandic-to-English

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  • Article: is:Megas
  • Corresponding English-language article: Megas
  • Worth doing because: Seems quite notable judging by the size of his article in is: (which is a small Wikipedia)
  • Originally Requested by: Trilobite 04:41, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Status:
  • Other notes:
  • Supported:


  • Article: is:Jörundur hundadagakonungur
  • Corresponding English-language article: Jørgen Jørgensen
  • Worth doing because: there seems to be significant material to incorporate into English-language article from featured article on Icelandic wiki to the minimilistic stub in English. While I will add some information about his Tasmanian life as a sailor, explorer and convict, Jorgenson was also the ruler of Iceland for 2 months - I know no more and it seems an amazing story.
  • Originally Requested by: User:AYArktos | Talk 23:47, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: User:Eric Straven will take responsibility
  • Other notes:
  • Supported: Other users can sign here to support the request.


Italian-to-English

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Article: it:Chimonanthus

  • Corresponding English-language article: Chimonanthus or wintersweet
  • Worth doing because: My favorite flower and no article!
    • No corresponding English article
    • Material to incorporate into English-language article
  • Originally Requested by: – 67.170.139.129 06:56, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: "Unclaimed"
  • Supported:



Article: it:Carlo Michelstaedter



Article: it:Luigi Capuana

  • Corresponding English-language article: (None)
  • Worth doing because: No corresponding English article for notable author
  • Originally Requested by: Andrew Sly 17:16, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: "Claimed by user portisfreak"



Article: it:Andrea Zanzotto

  • Corresponding English-language article: Andrea Zanzotto
  • Worth doing because: The English article can barely be called a stub-stub, the Italian article is a candidate for featured article (or "displayed article" as Babelfish says, but I think it's the same), even a partial translation would be a huge improvement.
  • Originally Requested by: Sherool 13:25, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: "Unclaimed"



Article: it:Antonio Tabucchi



Article: it:Carlo Goldoni



Japanese-to-English

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  • Article: ja:卵かけご飯
  • corresponding English-language article: none
  • worth doing because: No corresponding English article; Japanese article is popular
  • requested by Ashibaka (tock)


  • Article: ja:松平容保
  • Corresponding English-language article: Katamori Matsudaira
  • Worth doing because: English article barely more than a substub
  • Originally Requested by: —Korath (Talk) 07:32, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: Unclaimed
    • I'll work on this progressively.--Jondel 02:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • I've done a partial translation/partial rewrite of the article (not complete). --Atsi Otani 5 July 2005 04:57 (UTC)


  • Article: ja:関ヶ原の戦い
  • Corresponding English-language article: Battle of Sekigahara
  • Worth doing because: English article consists merely of short summary and list of participants
  • Originally Requested by: Muke Tever 19:35, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: In my subject area, so I'll take this. --MSJapan


  • Article: ja:Panasonic
  • Corresponding English-language article: Panasonic
  • Worth doing because: Every American knows Panasonic products, but how much do we know about Panasonic? Since there is more about the parent company it should be made clearer what that is (I cannot tell if this has been done since I can't read Japanese)
  • Originally Requested by: gren 08:12, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: in progress - need to be double checked


  • Article: ja:山本耀司
  • Corresponding English-language article: Yohji Yamamoto
  • Worth doing because:
    • No corresponding English article
    • Specialized local knowledge
  • Originally Requested by: Nikai 14:02, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Supported:


  • Article: ja:おしん
  • Corresponding English-language article: Oshin
  • Worth doing because: Famous Japanese drama, which got aired in 59 countries and had the highest TV rating in Japan ever
  • Originally Requested by: Gross 17:41, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status:













  • Article: ja:秋田市
  • Corresponding English-language article: Akita, Akita
  • Worth doing because: Akita, Akita is a prefectural capital and most of the translation work has already been done
  • Originally requested by: Nameneko 20:56, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other notes: I did a sizeable portion of the translation work and intentionally left in the Japanese for portions I couldn't translate but still thought as important. Is currently the Japanese Collaboration of the Week, but has still failed to bring in someone to finish the translation. Most of the Japanese left concerns the transportation throughout the city as well as small words here and there.
  • Status: Did most of it. What should we do with the train service station names? --xetrov_znt 21:30, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]































Japanese computers

Information on Japanese computers is generally scarce on the Internet - at least in languages other than Japanese. The Japanese Wikipedia articles have a lot of information.

















Korean to English

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Norwegian-to-English

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Done. --Badmotorfinger 23:04, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Article: no:Kosmas- og Damiankirken
  • Corresponding English-language article: None (at least I can't find any)
  • Worth doing because: No coresponding English article, the Norwegian article is fairly long. It also have featured status (although with 2 for and no against votes that might not say a whole lot).
  • Originally Requested by: Sherool 00:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: I believe the official name of the church is Santi Cosma e Damiano, not sure what the best English article title would be. Some nice GFDL pictures there too that should probably be uploaded to commons if someone descide to translate the article. Only use the images used in the Wikipedia article though, one of the linked sites is obviously the source of the images and contain many more, however that site is lisensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 wich is incompatable with the Wikipedia. The person who run that site contributed those images to the Wikipedia article and released them under GFDL, but that only apply to those images, not the entire site. --Sherool 00:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Supported:



Ossetic-to-English

Polish to English

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Srebrna Góra (Wapno)

  • Article: Srebrna Góra (Wapno)
  • Corresponding English-language article: Srebrna Góra (Wapno)
  • Worth doing because: Ad majoram Poloniae gloriam!
  • Originally Requested by: Jpbrenna 7 July 2005 08:46 (UTC)
  • Status: Uncertain
  • Notes:Is that a "Culture" tag or a copyright vio tag on the article? Don't waste your time translating it if it's a copyvio, but do please translate if it's not! (Response: I think it's a 'work in progress' tag.)
No, it's a "clean up this article" tag. Brisvegas 11:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Adam Rapacki


Cyprian Norwid

  • Article: pl:Cyprian Kamil Norwid
  • Corresponding English-language article: Cyprian Norwid (Started)
  • Worth doing because: He's a famous Polish poet... and the English page should get more diversity
  • Originally Requested by: gren 14:16, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: Unclaimed



Leon Schiller

  • Article: pl:Leon Schiller
  • Corresponding English-language article: Leon Schiller (Started)
  • Worth doing because: famous Polish man and interesting information
  • Originally Requested by: Sheynhertz-Unbayg 14:01, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: Uncertain
  • Supported:

Maryla Rodowicz


Giewont

Edward Szczepanik

Gotthard Fritzsche

Edmund Knoll-Kownacki

Lipnik

Portuguese-to-English

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  • Article: pt:Octadecimal
  • Corresponding English-language article: Octal
  • Worth doing because: As near as I can tell, very little information about octadecimal is available almost anywhere. Article looks to provide very useful information about converting.
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes:--Adamlorenz@comcast.net 18:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)There is an article about Octal numbers in English. I think the examples are worth translating and adding to the article.[reply]


  • Article: pt:Pupunha
  • Corresponding English-language article: Pupunha
  • Worth doing because:
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: appears to be work in progress... -- Jmabel | Talk 00:25, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
  • Most of this has been translated. I've cleaned up what was there, but there is still a section on advantages of cultivation of Pupunha over other palms that needs to be translated - I'm not sure of the appropriate terms in English, so I'd appreciate some help! Thanks. SteveW | Talk 21:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]


  • Article: pt:João Calvino
  • Corresponding English-language article: John Calvin
  • Worth doing because: Portuguese article of the week
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: None


  • Article: pt:Sandy & Junior
  • Corresponding English-language article: Sandy & Junior
  • Worth doing because: a popular brazilian music group
  • Originally Requested by: Revolución
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes:
  • Supported:


  • Article: pt:Golbery do Couto e Silva
  • Corresponding English-language article: none
  • Worth doing because: principal political architect of the Brazilian military dictatorship
  • Originally requested by: Sesel
  • Status: unclaimed
  • Other notes: none —Sesel 23:21, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Supported: Perhaps translated article could be abriged, but definately an important article to English Wikiedia Rfredian 16:52, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Supported: I think I'll take this task. Golbery do Couto e Silva was an important politician in Brazil. I'll start this weekend. Anyone can help? In progress. I've already started translating, but help is needed. Milena 11:40, 25 October 2005 (UTC)Talk[reply]


  • Article: pt:Vida de Pirata
  • Corresponding English-language article: none
  • Worth doing because: Presumably because the Portuguese article looks quite good
  • Originally requested by: 195.23.234.43
  • Status: Unclaimed
  • Other notes: This anon user has posted this request twice to Pirate's Life but both attempts have been speedied so I thought I'd do them a favour and list the request properly. Not being able to speak a word of Portuguese (really, I don't even know how to say "hello" in the language) I don't know if the content already exists over here or what it's even about. -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 20:35, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Supported:The Portuguese article does look quite good and has lots of information that could well go in the Pirate organization of the English Pirate article but is not there. My Portuguese is too limited to translate this or I'd give it a try. -EDM 20:51, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unsure: Francs2000 asked me to take a look at this. It's all completely uncited, and for a lot of it, it's hard to tell how much is just from reading fiction or children's books and how much from any real research. I don't think it would be a total waste of time to translate it, but I suspect that as much could be gleaned from any decent book on the topic. And that could be cited. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:35, August 24, 2005 (UTC)





Romanian-to-English

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*Article: ro:Constantin Brâncuşi

  • Corresponding English-language article: Constantin Brancusi
  • Worth doing because:
    • Material to incorporate into English-language article
    • Specialized local knowledge
  • Originally Requested by: Jmabel 01:49, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: Not started -- Jmabel 01:42, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
    • I am working on this. Will be my first translation so I'll want to get someone to look it over when I am done. It seems that this is going to be more of a merging than a translation. Should I do it as incramental changes to the article or work on the merged version in my user space and move it all over at once? Dalf | Talk 06:46, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • Work in the article. If you are going to be editing a lot over a short period, you can use {{inuse}} (but rememeber to take it off when you are done!). And yes, this certainly will be a merge, and probably a tricky one. Best of luck, and let me know if I can be of any specific help (although I will be relatively unavailable 20 May–12 June) -- Jmabel | Talk 07:39, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
  • Other notes: The most prominent 20th-century Romanian artist. Romanian-language article is much more extensive than English. Also has more images.


  • Article: ro:Ion Creangă
  • Corresponding English-language article: Ion Creangă
  • Worth doing because:
    • Specialized local knowledge
    • No corresponding English-language article
  • Originally Requested by: Jmabel 01:42, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Status: Not started -- Jmabel 01:42, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Other notes: One of Romania's most prominent authors, still a household word there more than a century after his death. Deserves an article, for sure.


  • Article: ro:Mihai Eminescu
  • Corresponding English-language article: Mihai Eminescu
  • Worth doing because:
    • Material to incorporate into English-language article
    • Specialized local knowledge
  • Originally Requested by: Jmabel 07:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: I did a little, but (1) some of it is beyond me and (2) I've got too much else to work on. -- Jmabel 01:42, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Other notes: I originally translated this a while back. However, there have been recent massive additions to the Romanian-language article. I'm not sure it's all worth translating, but it's certainly worth someone taking a good look. -- Jmabel 07:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]


  • Article and Corresponding English-language article: Wikisource:Stenograma sedintei de audiere din 14 decembrie 1994
  • Worth doing because: We're attempting to intersperse English translation with the Romanian-language original.
  • Originally Requested by: Jmabel 22:41, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: Between myself and one anonymous contributor, it's about 85-90% done, but I've hit a wall. (I believe I have the sense of the rest, but not with enough confidence to produce a translation).
  • Other notes: This is in Wikisource, not Wikipedia, but there is no effective place within Wikisource to ask for help. Help on this would be particularly appreciated. This probably needs someone who is truly fluently bilingual. Further comments are on the talk page of the relevant article. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:41, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • Supported:



Russian-to-English

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Article: ru:Юдаков, Сулейман Александрович


Scots-to-English

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Spanish-to-English

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Arturo Prat (July 28)

Nominated July 7 2005; needs 6 votes by July 28 2005

support:

  1. J3ff 8 July 2005 05:14 (UTC)
  2. Fenice 8 July 2005 14:41 (UTC)
  3. Tocky 14:52, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  4. rbonvall 07:29, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
  5. GringoInChile 17:02, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Ckoski02 22:59, 26 August 2005 (EDT)
  7. Herzog 02:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Draeco 20:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

comment:

  • Arturo Prat is a Chilean war hero. The English article is not much more than a stub, while the corresponding Spanish article is well developed. — J3ff 8 July 2005 05:14 (UTC)

Erythrina crista-galli

(a.k.a. Ceibo and Cockspur coral tree)

  • Corresponding Spanish-language article: es:Ceibo
  • Worth doing because: The flower of this tree is the national flower of two countries (Argentina and Uruguay); there was no English article, and the present stub is not too descriptive, due to the lack of specific botanical vocabulary on the part of the original author.
  • Originally Requested by: Pablo D. Flores 12:26, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: unclaimed
  • Other notes: Translators with a biology background desperately needed for many other articles on local species.

African Elephant

support:

  1. Fenice 5 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)
  2. Gyrofrog (talk) 02:48, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. M@$+@ Ju 22:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  4. I think the Peruvian cuisine article just about filled my quota for translating articles about food for one year. Bring on the live fauna! Fernando Rizo 23:51, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --Zxcvbnm 01:34, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

status:

comment:
The English article on the African elephant is a stub.--Fenice 5 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)

Our information is spread across three articles, elephant, Loxodonta (which African Elephant redirects to) and Savannah Elephant. The last of these would be the appropriate one, not the one on the genus. It doesn't look like the Spanish article is quite up to date; it doesn't distinguish between the two species of African elephants. This might make it difficult to translate without introducing inaccuracies into the English articles.-gadfium 5 July 2005 21:27 (UTC)
The author es:usuario:Hossmann studies biology at the Madrid university. So I guess he knows what he is doing. Also, there is some confusion about the term African elephant: it is used mainly as a translation for the Latin loxodonta, but also for the subspecies loxodonta africana, which is the Savannah Elephant. (The redirect "African Elephant should probably be a disambiguation page). The author of the Spanish article seems to be describing all loxodonta though: see section alimentación: Según habiten en el bosque, en las praderas o los semidesiertos, el porcentaje de hierbas y hojas de árboles o arbustos de su dieta varía notablemente. That would include the Forest elephant. He distinguishes between subspecies at the bottom of the article, by the way. Also note that he calls the subspiecies Savannah elephant loxodonta africana africana, whereas it is called loxodonta africana in our template.--Fenice 09:32, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have checked this again and I do think the Spanish article is up to date. Some of the confusion arises because different classification schemes are used: en.wiki uses Cuvier and es.wiki uses Blumenbach, but both articles are describing the same animal.--Fenice 09:50, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cuisine of Argentina

  • Corresponding English-language article: es:Gastronomía de Argentina
  • Worth doing because:
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: about 50% done
  • Other notes:incomplete spanish translation of the week; The #Central region and las Pampas, #Northwest region and Cuyo, #Northeast region, #Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, #Appendix sections contain text that needs to be translated — J3ff 23:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gestalt psychology

from:es:Psicología de la Gestalt
Reason: Very detailed article, English Wikipedia needs better coverage in social science topics. originally required by:--Fenice 09:53, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Finished.Please check. It would be great if a psychologist, especiallya Gestalt psychologist would look this over.--Jondel 07:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ricardo Pavoni

suggested by: This is an article on a historic footballer which I stumbled upon. I don't know anything about soccer, but he looks important.

Zarzuela

support:

  1. Fenice 20:58, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Status: I'm taking on this one, partially from es: and partially from other sources. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 4 July 2005 16:22 (UTC)

Jorge Guillén

support:

  1. Donar Reiskoffer 11:19, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  2. I checked in a lengthier article on Jorge Guillén a few days ago, which is based in part on the Spanish version but is still stubbish. But then the Spanish version is pretty stubbish itself. --Ngb 17:49, 10 Nov 2004 (GMT)

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo

support:

Icod de los Vinos

  • Corresponding English-language article: es:Icod de los Vinos
  • Worth doing because:
  • Originally Requested by:
  • Status: about 80 % done
  • Other notes:incomplete spanish translation of the week; section heraldry stills needs to be translated, spanish text is commented out--Fenice 08:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Supported:

Youssef noted 12:46, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC) that "there are many other articles by user:Ruiz deserving to be translated." If Youssef or someone else can provide a list of what is worthy of translation, they'll probably get done. -- Jmabel 07:46, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Ignacio Zuloaga



Generation of '98


Biographies of Saint Lucian politicians:



Swedish-to-English

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  • Article: sv:Lunds_domkyrka
  • Corresponding English-language article: Lund_Cathedral
  • Worth doing because: Material to incorporate into English-language article
  • Originally Requested by --Fred chessplayer (talk) (edits) 21:37, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Status:
  • Other notes:
  • Supported: I'm willing to undertake measures to translate the much more expansive and informative Swedish article into English, but no doubt, I will require immense community help from other fluent Swedophones. Once we get enough volunteers, I think we can start work. Eric June 30, 2005 16:36 (UTC)



  • Article: sv:Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
  • Corresponding English-language article:Hjalmar Hammarskjold
  • Worth doing because: Prime Minister of Sweden, Dag H's father. Also starts moving the Swedish PM tree into the English wiki.
  • Originally Requested by: --FourthAve 21:19, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Status: I have made a first translation - if you have the time and inclanation, and have a good grasp of english, then please proofread. I am especially concerned about the political/governmental terminology - translating swedish political terms from the early 1900's is quite difficult. -Di92jn
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Ukrainian-to-English

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  • Article: uk:Броди
  • Corresponding English-language article: Brody
  • Worth doing because: Broaden people's knowledge / a lot more.
  • Originally Requested by:--Sheynhertz-Unbayg 18:17, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Status:
  • Other notes: Looks like there is also some good content at de:Brody (Galizien). I can't read Ukrainian, so I don't know how different that may be from the Ukrainian-language material. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:27, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Supported:



Recently Completed Translations

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