Help:Languages

''This page is about the use of languages on Wikia. For a list of Wikia sorted by language, please see Category:Languages. For a Wikia about language, see Language.''

A Wikia can be in any language. Over 350 languages are supported, and many of those already have full interface translations available. You can choose to run multiple languages on one site, or request language sub-domains of one Wikia.

Default language for new wikis
When you fill out the request a new wiki form, you should specify the default language on the form.

Interface language
If you login, you can change your preferences to set the interface to a language of your choice. If you are not logged in, you will see the wiki in its default language.

Most used languages on Wikia
The top 20 languages used by Wikia users are:
 * English
 * Spanish
 * Italian
 * Polish
 * German
 * French
 * Chinese
 * Portuguese
 * Russian
 * Hebrew
 * Dutch
 * Hindi
 * Greek
 * Hungarian
 * Finnish
 * Indonesian
 * Czech
 * Japanese
 * Danish
 * Norwegian

Language subdomains
If you create a wiki in a new language, it can be at a subdomain that matches other wikis on the same topic. For example, the World of Warcraft wiki has a version at en.wow.wikia.com and a Norwegian version at no.wow.wikia.com.

There is no requirement that a wiki covering two or more languages needs the same title or URL; we have cycling.wikia.com for English and cyclisme.wikia.com for French.

You can also use the same requesting form to request the new language subdomains for an existing Wikia.

Language of the Central Wikia
The Central Wikia exists in a few different languages. If there is no central Wikia in your language, you can start a new one or add pages to the English Central Wikia. This Central Wikia aims to bring together all of the Wikia communities, so is used as a meeting point for all wikis in all languages.

Pages can be created or translated on this central wiki. See translations for more details on translating the Central Wikia.

You can use interlanguage links to link between pages of different languages. Unlike interwiki links, these appear in an "other languages" section in the sidebar. For example, adding a link to FAQ/日本語 will place a link to FAQ/日本語 in the sidebar, with the link text "日本語". Any of the supported languages can be used in this way.

Mailing lists
The mailing lists currently use GNU Mailman which allows users to see the interface and automatic messages in the languages listed at list.org/i18n.html. As of July 2008, those languages are Basque/Euskara, Catalan, Chinese (cn and tw), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, American English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Interlingua, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Messages posted to the lists can be in any language. The list of supported languages affects only the interface, not the message content.

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