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Intro History: How to Manually Translate Wikis

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Introduction
This guide demonstrates how to manually translate a [[Topic:Wikis|wiki|new_window=true]] or page. We already have 8 activeWikis can be translated by volunteers to all languages open for volunteer translation oncurrently supported by iFixit: ''English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch'', ''Turkish, Russian, Portuguese and Korean.''
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 wiki, please improve the wiki in its original language and ''then'' translate the improvement.*** This way folks in both languages (or more than two, you incredible [link|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism#:~:text=to%20as%20a-,polyglot,-%2C%20a%20term%20that|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!