Criminal Defense Wiki:Language policy
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This page describes the current multi-lingual policy on the Criminal Defense Wiki. We are interested 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 and Chinese translations. If you would like to assist us, please send an email to elearning@ibj.org.
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
- useTable editing example
orExample 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.