Template:Xlate
Purpose:
For list entries in a list of pages to be translated (in projectspace, on userpages, as part of a talk discussion), providing a target page to place the translation into, a source page from which is to be translated, and rough machine translations from various free online translators
Usage:
{{xlate|sourcepage=|sourcelang=|targetpage=|targetlang=}}
|targetlang=— OPTIONAL – DEFAULT: "en" (English) − specify language to translate to; if not specified defaults to English (language code: en)|targetpage=— MANDATORY – specify pagename of the topic in the target language
- If the targetpage is not on the local Wikipedia, prepend the language code enclosed in colons directly before the target pagename.
- ie.
:fr:Exempleinstead ofExemplewhere "fr" is the language code
- ie.
- If the targetpage is not on the local Wikipedia, prepend the language code enclosed in colons directly before the target pagename.
|sourcelang=— MANDATORY – specify the language of the source pagename to be translated from|sourcepage=— MANDATORY – specify pagename of the topic in the source language
|sourcelang= and |targetlang= use ISO 639-1 language codes
Examples:
- {{xlate|sourcepage=Vraquier|sourcelang=fr|targetpage=Bulk carrier}}
gives
Bulk carrier (Vraquier) : Original Language (French, français)• Translations (English, English): Google Translate
- {{xlate|sourcepage=Bulk carrier|sourcelang=en|targetpage=:fr:Vraquier|targetlang=fr}}
gives
fr:Vraquier (Bulk carrier) : Original Language (English, English)• Translations (French, français): Google Translate