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Tips for translating articles not about items.

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BrazilianNut (talkcontribs)

Hello there.

I see that you have recently started translating articles about things other than items. While I can't tell the quality of your translations (although I trust you're doing a good job), as I don't speak Turkish, I can give you some tips on editing the wiki.

1) Article titles
Articles about items draw the title from the dictionary, and so have their titles translated automatically. Other articles, however, need {{DISPLAYTITLE:X}} (with X being the desired title), otherwise the title stays as "English article title/lang" ("Payload/fr", "2Fort/es" etc).

As articles for items have automatic title translation, they don't require it; adding it to them will either do nothing or cause an error message to appear on the article.
Examples:

Adding {{DISPLAYTITLE:Raton tueur}} to Racc Mann/fr will do nothing, as it's already the item's name.
Adding {{DISPLAYTITLE:Boné de Encanador}} to Plumber's Cap/pt-br will cause an error message, as it's a different name.


2) "Translating" links with #
When you see a link with a #, it means it is linking directly to an article's section. To "translate" these, you should add /lang (in your case /tr) right before the # and then switch what is after it to whatever that section is called in the other language.
Example:

[[Payload#Gallery]] -> [[Payload/tr#Galeri]]

Some articles use anchors in their sections, meaning a translated section name might not be necessary. It's always best to check the article you're linking to both to make sure your link will work correctly and to see if that section uses an anchor or not.


3) {{main}}
Whatever is inserted into {{main}} becomes a link; you don't need to add a [[ ]] link to it (specially since it will not work properly that way).

Here's an example on how to "translate" {{main}}:

{{main|Cosmetic items}} -> {{main|Cosmetic items/tr|l1=Kozmetik Eşya}}

You can add as many links as you want (example: {{main|Weapons|Tools|Taunts}}). To translate the text, you then add l1=, l2=, l3= and so on. Where and in what order you put these is not important; only the order of the links is.

The same applies to {{see also}}.


4) War Paint names
You probably already know that {{class name}} translates the name of the class and {{item name}} translates the name of the item, and that replacing "name" with "link" creates links to articles in the same language as the current one. For War Paints and Decorated weapons, it's {{decorated name}} (no "link" variation, though).


I think this is all. I hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Cheers. - BrazilianNut (talk) 17:30, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Gg qush (talkcontribs)

thanks man. I really need that tips.

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