Criminal Defense Wiki:Language policy

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Help Translate DefenseWiki into Your Language

IBJ isinterested in having all of our pages translated into other languages, and we need your help! In particular, we would be very interested in French, Spanish, Khmer, and Chinese translations. If you would like to assist us, please send an email to elearning@ibj.org.

Below are specific instructions on how to create and maintain languages pages on DefenseWiki:

Help: namespace

• English is the main reference language, and all root pages should be named and written in English.
• Other languages should be placed in an appropriately named sub-page of the English version. E.g. the French version of Rwanda should be at Rwanda/fr.
• Language sub-pages should be named using the appropriate language code for that language (see below).
• Sub-pages should only be used for translations into other languages, not for English content (e.g. you shouldn't use Table editing/example - use Table editing example or Example of table editing instead).
• If an international version of a page exists but an English version does not, then please create a stub article for the English version as this aids navigation.
• All pages in the help namespace should be tagged with the {{Languages}} template, which automatically creates links to all available translations.

The main page

The English version of our front page is located at Criminal Defense Wiki. Translated versions are located at Criminal Defense Wiki/code, where code is the language code (e.g. Criminal Defense Wiki/fr).

Importantly, the rules about language codes (see below) should be followed here as well.

Language codes

Throughout the Criminal Defense Wiki you should use the language codes specified by the MediaWiki software when creating language-specific content (see Names.php for the full and up-to-date list).

For reference:

• English language pages should not have a language code. (IE. Rwanda)
• French language pages should use the language code "fr". (IE. Rwanda/fr)

Please also bear the following in mind:

• If the language code is not found in Names.php then we should not host pages in that language.
• Note that some language codes in Names.php are now deprecated (e.g. zh-yue has been replaced with yue). In these cases only the most recent code should be used.

Page Name Language Main Page English Main Page/af Afrikaans Main Page/ar Arabic Main Page/az Azerbaijani Main Page/bcc Southern Balochi Main Page/bg Bulgarian Main Page/br Breton Main Page/ca Catalan Main Page/cs Czech Main Page/da Danish Main Page/de German Main Page/el Greek Main Page/es Spanish Main Page/fa Persian Main Page/fi Finnish Main Page/fr French Main Page/gl Galician Main Page/gu Gujarati Main Page/he Hebrew Main Page/hu Hungarian Main Page/id Indonesian Main Page/it Italian Main Page/ja Japanese Main Page/ka Georgian Main Page/ko Korean Main Page/ksh Kölsch Main Page/mk Macedonian Main Page/ml Malayalam Main Page/mr Marathi Main Page/ms Malay Main Page/nl Nederlands Main Page/no Norwegian Main Page/oc Occitan Main Page/pl Polish Main Page/pt Portuguese Main Page/pt-br Brazilian Portuguese Main Page/ro Romanian Main Page/ru Russian Main Page/si Sinhalese Main Page/sk Slovak Main Page/sq Albanian Main Page/sr Serbian Main Page/sv Swedish Main Page/ta Tamil Main Page/th Thai Main Page/tr Turkish Main Page/uk Ukrainian Main Page/vi Vietnamese Main Page/yue Cantonese Main Page/zh Chinese Main Page/zh-hans Chinese (Simplified) Main Page/zh-hant Chinese (Traditional) Main Page/zh-tw Chinese (Taiwan) Example