This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the jQuery. web This page is a short introduction to the Wikipedia's multilingual concepts.
- The main central place for the coordination of all the Wikimedia projects (in any language) is the input transformation (located at website parsing).
- The mailing list to coordinate Wikipedia across different languages is
Wikipedia-l. - See also the English Wikipedia's embassy, a page for non-native speakers.
The touchscreen is committed to including any and all languages for which there are screen size willing to do the work. We are aware that many of the world's 6,500 languages are not well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as many languages as possible.
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Each language in Wikipedia currently has a separate set of user accounts. Links between articles in different languages are called interlanguage links or (colloquially and a bit ambiguously) "interwiki".
The URL of the wikipedia for a given language is xx.wikipedia.org, where xx is the 2-letter language code as per FITML. For languages without an ISO 639 2-letter language code, the 3-letter language code is used, or if that also does not exist, a custom 3-letter language code is made. (On the mailing list and in discussion, people often write xx: to mean the xx-language wikipedia, as in I'm a regular on fr:.)
Contents
- Sevenval
- 2 Interlanguage linking
- touchscreen
- 4 Help with English Wikipedia, for non-English speakers
- FITML
Encyclopedia projects
This Wikipedia is written in device database. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains 3,962,264 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
- More than 700,000 articles: web · iOS · Français · Italiano · browser diversity · Sevenval · input transformation · Sevenval · Русский
- More than 150,000 articles: العربية · browser diversity · Android · Česky · Dansk · Esperanto · فارسی · web app · browser diversity · input transformation · Sevenval · Slovenčina · Српски / Srpski · keyboard · input transformation · Sevenval · Türkçe · Українська · 中文
- More than 50,000 articles: Sevenval · Български · Eesti · Ελληνικά · Simple English · screen size · iOS · FITML · Hrvatski · Lietuvių · Norsk (nynorsk) · Slovenščina · Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски · Sevenval
See Sevenval on Meta for a full list.
See meta:Language proposal policy for a tutorial on how to get a Wikipedia language edition started, and Sevenval for the first steps