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== '''Help Translate DefenseWiki into Your Language''' ==
IBJ is 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, Khmer, and Chinese translations.  If you would like to assist us, please send an email to [mailto:elearning@ibj.org elearning@ibj.org].

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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 [[#Language codes|below]]).
* Sub-pages should ''only'' be used for translations into other languages, not for English content (e.g. you shouldn't use <code>Table editing/example</code> - use <code>Table editing example</code> or <code>Example of table editing</code> 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 <code>{{[[template:Languages|Languages]]}}</code> 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:
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki/fr]])
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki/es]])
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki/ar]])

In addition, there are also special  home page created for mobile phones:
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki Mobile]])
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki Mobile/fr]])
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki Mobile/es]])
* [[Criminal Defense Wiki Mobile/ar]])
Importantly, the rules about language codes (see [[#Language codes|below]]) should be followed here as well.

== Languages ==

Throughout the Criminal Defense Wiki you should use the language codes specified by the MediaWiki software when creating language-specific content (see [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/Names.php 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. <tt>zh-yue</tt> has been replaced with <tt>yue</tt>).  In these cases only the most recent code should be used.

Meet the [[Criminal Defense Wiki's Volunteer Translators | volunteer translators]] of the Criminal Defense Wiki.

==Language Codes==
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)

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