Language Translation Workflow

Introduction to Page Translation

Mediawiki platform is equipped with translation workflow process to ensure that each user can contribute hance produce a living translated document. This page is intented to understand the Page Translation workflow available in Mediawiki platform.

Example used throughout this page, is a page titled "Let's Learn About Light", a short science article explaining about light.

Prepare page for translation

At this documentation example, the source page is assume has written completely and ready to translate into other language. First action to be done, is to prepare the source page ready for translation. To do this, please put below tag surrounding the whole article to be translated. Below is how the article looks before we put the translation tag.

Completely written article, ready for translation

And, enter the source editing mode, by clicking on 'Edit Source' link, and put start and end tag below.

 ...the article content ... 

Once the tag is saved, the new link of translation marking will appeared on top of the page, please see below image.

Translation Marking on top of the page