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Welcome to the LSL Portal Translation Project!

This is a community effort to provide a multi-lingual translation of the LSL Portal. Please feel free to edit and add languages to the set. Only reasonably static pages have been selected for translation. News, bugs and patches, automatically generated pages have been set aside. This way, we intend to keep the original pages and their translations as much similar as possible.

LSL Scripters can participate in this project by choosing a wiki page from the list below and translating it into the language(s) they speak fluently. This suggestion list will be updated periodically with new pages. Contributors are welcomed to list themselves and discuss language-specific topics on the proper subpage of the LSL_Portal_Translation_Team page.

Please notice

To make coordination easier, I have created an inworld group named "LSL portal translation". Please subscribe to it.

Subjects of discussion might be :

 - transition to new language codes
 - is the structure of this coordination page adequate ?
 - links look ugly in the localized categories
 - how to attract more contributors
 - etc.

This group will also provide mutual help, for example with templates localization.

Important Changes

There is a discussion afoot to change from ISO 639-1 to ISO 639-3. This means that every page with two letter language codes would be moved to their 3 letter equivalent. The reason for this is that ISO 693-1 limits language codes to two letters, this is problematic for the Chinese dialects. The actual conversion will be automated and will not require the users to do anything new. Old links will redirect to the new article locations. Assuming no issues this will happen January 3rd. Please refer to Template_talk:Multi-lang for commentary and discussion.

Procedure to Create a Translation Page

This topic is affected by #Important Changes

Choose a page from the Suggested Pages to Translate. If the page is followed by the languages list, it is ready for translation.

If the page is not ready for translation the {{Multi-lang}} tag should be included in the main page. If you are not are not familiar with this wiki, feel free to ask for assistance.

Click the link of the page you have chosen to translate. In the URL bar of your navigator, add a /xx language code. This is how you create the language subpage. Example: LSL_Tutorial/fr to create a french translation of LSL_Tutorial.

Language Codes

Code	Language
de	German
en	English
es	Spanish
fr	French
it	Italian
ko	Korean
ja	Japanese
nl	Dutch
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
zh-Hans	Chinese (Simplified)
zh-Hant	Chinese (Traditional)

It is advised to start from a copy of the main page source and insert your translation in place of the original content to achieve the same page layout.

Once your translation is finished, add "Done", the date, and your name to the Suggested Pages to Translate. For the date, use the international ISO format YYYY-MM-DD.