Help:Translating Wikia Help

Translating Wikia Help into your language
So you're interested in translating exiting help pages into your language? That's great! And it will help your native speaker community a lot.

On this page you'll find
 * a list of the most important help pages
 * instructions how to build up your local Wikia Help wiki.

How to proceed?
Please check if there is already a local version of Wikia Help in your language. Just enter  (e.g.   for German or   for French) into your browser and see if there is a wiki yet.

A localized Wikia Help wiki already exist :-)

Great! Just skip this section and continue at the "Translation tips" section or directly jump to the list of help pages.

There is no localized Wikia Help wiki in your language yet :-(

That's a shame! You can setup a localized Wikia Help wiki for your chosen language. Just create a new wiki and afterwards start by translating the most important help articles listed below.

Translation tips

 * A good way to check what pages are already translated and which still needs some love, is to copy the table below to your local Wikia Help wiki and once you have translated an article, change the name in the "Help article" column to the local article.
 * By rule of thumb translate the help articles below ordered by their priority.
 * Once you have translated an article, please link it to the other language Versions of Wikia Help! If your local version of Wikia Help doesn't allow interlanguage linking yet, please drop us a short note via Special:Contact.
 * Some articles contain screenshots. If you don't want to invest the work to create localized versions of these, just take the English ones. They can be changed later.
 * If you have a solid base of translated help articles (e.g. all articles which are markes as priority 1), drop us a note so we can enable shared help for your localized Wikia Help so it would be integrated into all wikis in your language.
 * Find other users to help you. It's way more motivating and fun working on a Wikia Help translation together than just on your own.

List of useful help pages ordered by priority
The following list consists of most help pages available in the English version of Wikia Help. It was first compiled in Aug 2009. If you browse Wikia Help you'll notice that some articles are more important than others. While every user should be able to find out how to create a new page, only a few users might be interested in setting up a custom namespace.

By rule of thumb the best way to build up your localized version of Wikia Help is to ensure that the listed articles are translated ordered by their priority - if you have the choice to translate a page with priority 1 and priority 3 it would help the users more if you translate the first one before the latter.

But of course it's still a wiki - and you should have fun editing it! So if you're interested in a special topic it's better to translate the matching help article even if it's "just" an article with priority 3 and the priority 2 pags aren't translated yet instead of just leaving it.