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Intro History: How to Manually Translate Wikis

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How to Manually Translate Wikis
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This guide demonstrates how to manually translate a wiki. We already have 8 active languages open for volunteer translation on iFixit: ''English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch''.
We have gathered some guidelines and helpful tips for translating iFixit. ***Please check them [link|https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/translator|here] before starting to translate***.
***Note***: Wikipedia defines [link|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation|translation] as ''the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.'' As our site is Wiki based–and, as much of our content is created by our amazing community members–we expect the content to evolve and improve over time. ***If you find that you know more about what you’re translating and you’d like to improve the guide, please improve the guide in it’s original language and ''then'' translate the improvement.*** This way folks in both languages (or more than two, you incredible [link|http://A multilingual person is generally referred to as a polyglot, a term that may also refer to people who learn multiple languages as a hobby.|polyglot]) can benefit from your contributions to our site.
Thank you for all that you’re doing to make this repair information available around the world!
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