Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination

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We use Intlwiki-L, to coordinate Wikipedia across different languages. Please take a look at the Wikipedia Embassy and join if you're interested in the coordination project.

The Wikipedia community is committed to including any and all languages for which there are Wikipedians willing to do the work. We are aware that many of the world's 6,500 languages are not well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as many languages as possible. Currently, Wikipedia relies on the Unicode standards, and the available languages on Wikipedia are a subset of those made available via Unicode.

Encyclopedia projects
1. Wikipedias
2. Other encyclopedia projects
Starting a new language wikipedia
Statistics
Policy issues

Encyclopedia projects

See also: Wikipedia:Complete list of language wikis available for a full list.

Wiki encyclopedias that are at least somewhat active have been started in various languages:

Afrikaans
Arabic (Araby)
Basque (Euskara)
Bosnian (Bosanski) - started on 12 December 2002
Catalan (Catal)
Chinese (Hanyu)
Czech (Česky) - started on 3 May 2002
Danish (Dansk) - started on 1 February 2002
Dutch (Nederlands) - started on 31 August, 2001
English - started on January 2001
Esperanto - started on 15 November 2001
Estonian (Eesti) - started on 24 August 2002
Finnish (Suomi)
French (Franais)
Frisian (Frysk) - started on September 2, 2002
German (Deutsch)
Interlingua - started on 29 April 2002
Italian (Italiano)
Japanese (Nihongo)
Korean (Hangukeo)
Latin (Latina) - started on 22 May 2002
Norwegian (Norsk)
Polish (Polska) - started on 26 September 2001
Portuguese (Portugus)
Russian (Русский)
Serbocroatian (Srpskohrvatska) (if someone wants to look after this and/or Serbian and Croatian and sort out what's what, that'd be great)
Simple English
Slovene (Slovensko) - started on 8 March 2002
Spanish (Castellano)
Swedish (Svenska)

Other projects

These are other, non-Bomis, free Wiki-based encyclopedia projects independent of Wikipedia

Enciclopedia Libre - Spanish (Castellano)
Susning.nu - Swedish (Svenska)

Related projects

Wikipedia Machine Translation Project

Starting a new language wikipedia

See also: Wikipedia:Create a new language in Wikipedia for a tutorial how to get a Wikipedia in your language running.

A certain amount of "critical mass" is necessary in order for a wiki to "take off". Without 5-10 people eagerly writing and arguing and playing with each other, it wouldn't be as much fun. So we encourage anyone who wants to build a wiki in their own language to also go out and announce/recruit for it. :-)

We would like to solicit your help.

On some of our International Wikipedia wikis, we have not yet translated the copyright warning into the target languages.
Please check with each wikipedia before starting any translation.

Here is the text of the warning:

Please notice that all contributions to Wikipedia are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't hit submit. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain resource. DO NOT USE COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

Here are the languages we might need this in:

http://af.wikipedia.com/ Afrikaans

http://ar.wikipedia.com/ Arabic (Araby)

http://ca.wikipedia.com/ Catalan (Catal)

http://zh.wikipedia.org/ Chinese (Hanyu)

http://fi.wikipedia.com/ Finnish (Suomi)

http://he.wikipedia.com/ Hebrew (Ivrit)

http://hu.wikipedia.com/ Hungarian (Magyar)

http://it.wikipedia.com/ Italian (Italiano)

http://ja.wikipedia.org/ Japanese (Nihongo)

http://pt.wikipedia.com/ Portuguese (Portugus)

http://ru.wikipedia.org/ Russian (Русский)

http://sl.wikipedia.com/ Slovene (Slovensko)

http://sh.wikipedia.com/ Serbocroatian (Srpskohrvatska)

http://tr.wikipedia.org/ Turkish (Turkiye)

Statistics

See also Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics for a more complete overview.

The 20 largest Wikipedias (Jan 29, 2003):

For an overview of the world's biggest wiki websites (Wikipedia or not), see MeatBall:BiggestWiki

Policy issues

Some questions you might ask

what can I do to help ?

please consult Wikipedia Embassy
consider joining Intlwiki-L, the international mailing list
just jump through interlanguage links

I have just noticed the fact that the top and bottom bars are in English. Can something be done about that?

Those lines come from a configuration file that the public can't access (I believe). Please see the embassy for the ongoing effort to translate Wikipedia into different languages.

Here are some "international Wikipedia" policy questions. To a certain extent, these questions will resolve themselves, though.

How are the various Wikipedias going to be coordinated, if at all? Will we have several quite different articles in different languages? Will English be a lingua franca?
- In the embassy we are coordinating efforts between languages.
What are some suggestions about what can be put on new language Wikipedia home pages?
- See /Homepages to discuss.

What are some suggestions about how to use "international Wikipedias" for purposes of Nupedia article translation projects?
- See Nupedia Translation to discuss.

Is there going to be an easy way to link from one language to another?
- Yes, Interlanguage links are now available for all wikis that are upgraded to our Phase III software.
Anything else?

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