Alternative Language

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If you would like to write documentation in other language than English, start here. But please consider writing in english first - most people will benefit from that!

[edit] Translation guideline

• English is the main priority language for Typo3 documentation, so all new documents should be written in english!
• If an english document already exists, then it is okey to translate the document to any other language.
• We should only translate individual pages. Don´t waste time on translating "structural" pages like the section pages or the {Head-Xxxx} templates.

Please think twice before start translating. Wiki pages is usually updated much more frequently than ordinary (OOo, web, etc) documents, so the translation can quickly be outdated.

[edit] How to start translating a page

Just create a new page with the same name prefixed by the language code.

Example:

English        French            German            Japanese
Main_Page  --> Fr:Main_Page  --> De:Main_Page  --> Ja:Main_Page

You see the pagenames are all english ;-)

Then look if an english version of your topic exists.

Put this in the top of your new page:

{{Lang|NewPageName|The title in YOUR language|}}

don't forget the "|"-symbol at the end of this

[edit] Resources

• The official ISO-639 web site
• The list of Typo3's volunteer for translation. You may contact them to help you with your translation related to Typo3.