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<b>NOTE</b>: This page is for a resident-run activity called "I18N Project" and is ''not'' for the internationalization of ''the project'' (i.e., SL wiki.)  If you are looking for instructions to create international pages on this SL wiki, please read [[Project:Languages]].
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== FAQ ==
:''Important questions that are posed at the end of the article should be cleaned up and placed in the FAQ list.''

* '''Why is this project called "i18n" ?'''
: ''To avoid problems with the different spellings of "Internationalisation" (it's spelt with a '''z''' in US English), the widely used [http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html numeronym] '''i18n''' is used instead.''
* '''Why use ISO 639-3 ?'''
: ''It supports more languages than the previous ISO standards for language codes. Future proofing basically.''

== Guidelines for article proposal ==

# Create an article in your user-space
# Add it to the list below
# Continue to edit, tweak or otherwise improve upon your article while awaiting & responding to feedback from other Residents

=== Translated versions of an existing article ===
* Do not use machine translation. Ever. Translate an article into any language and back again to see why.
* Avoid content forks- refrain from translating an article that has been recently created and is still "under construction" as the content or meaning of an article could change.
* Append the ISO 639-3 code to the end of an English language article, e.g. [[Help:Getting started in Second Life]] and [[Help:Getting started in Second Life/spa]]
*# State your intentions for translating the article in the article's talk page.
*# Wait a reasonable amount of time
*# Start translating
*# When translating is complete, add [[Template:multi-lang]] to the articles- see [https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Help:Getting_started_in_Second_Life/langs&action=edit Help:Getting started in Second Life/langs] for an example

== Suggested articles ==
* International portals <small>(something that'd be an intermediate step to Second Life along the lines of the [http://secondlife.com/world/de/ German], [http://secondlife.com/world/jp/ Japanese] and [http://secondlife.com/world/kr/ Korean] versions of SecondLife.com)</small>
: I would like to bring the following attemps to awareness of some more people:
:* [[Volunteer_Portal/fr]]
:* [[Volunteer_Portal/es]]
:* [[User:Zai_Lynch/Sandbox/Volunteer_Portal/de|Volunteer_Portal/de]]
: as well as an explanation at [[User:Zai_Lynch/Public_Suggestion_Box#Linguists]] (2<sup>nd</sup> topic).
: Greetings, --[[User:Zai_Lynch|Zai Lynch]]<sup>([[User_talk:Zai_Lynch|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Zai_Lynch|contribs]])</sup> 07:08, 8 April 2008 (PDT)

== List of proposed articles ==

* [[User talk:SignpostMarv Martin/Sandbox/Project:Internationalisation/List of communities|Project:i18n/List of communities]]

== Merge or Distinguish ==
Please contribute to a I18n related discussion [[Project_talk:Languages#Merge_or_Distinguish|here]]. No answeres to it at this page plz, to keep it readable.<br>
Greetz, [[User:Zai Lynch|Zai Lynch]]<sup>([[User talk:Zai Lynch|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Zai Lynch|contribs]])</sup> 22:01, 26 June 2008 (PDT)
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