Wikidata:WikiProject Rowing/l10n

Wikidata is designed as a multilingual project which allows us to translate content into many languages. This in particular means that labels, descriptions, and aliases can (and should) be translated if possible.

Labels

• For structural items, translations have to be entered manually by proficient speakers. A list of important items will follow.
• For items about persons, label multiplication is in many situations a comfortable way to add labels in many languages at once.
  • This requires that the original name of a person happens to have the same script as the target language of the translation. As of now, we use label multiplication for Latin script (Q8229) languages only. If transcription is involved (e.g. Cyrillic script (Q8209) to Latin script (Q8229)), do not use this method as translations have to be filled manually.
  • Technically, the “nameGuzzler” script can be used to set labels for many languages in one edit. To activate it, put mw.loader.load( '//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jitrixis/nameGuzzler.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript', 'text/javascript' ); // [[User:Jitrixis/nameGuzzler.js]] into Special:MyPage/common.js. A config file with suitable Latin script languages can be found here (put a copy to your user space).

Descriptions

Person items

Per Help:Descriptions, descriptions about persons typically contain information about their country of citizenship and their occupation (e.g.: “French rower”). For easy cases (persons with only one country of citizenship (P27) and only one occupation (P106) claim with value rower (Q13382576) or coxswain (Q1690874)), we use batch editing to fill descriptions. Wikidata users have helped to provide suitable descriptions in the following languages:

• ar (Arabic)
• ast (Asturian)
• be (Belarusian)
• bg (Bulgarian)
• cs (Czech)
• da (Danish)
• de (German)
• el (Greek)
• en (English)
• es (Spanish)
• fa (Persian)
• fi (Finnish)
• fr (French)
• ga (Irish)
• he (Hebrew)
• hu (Hungarian)
• it (Italian)
• ja (Japanese)
• ko (Korean)
• nb (Norwegian)
• nl (Dutch)
• pl (Polish)
• pt (Portuguese)
• ro (Romanian)
• ru (Russian)
• sv (Swedish)
• uk (Ukrainian)
• zh (Chinese)

Translations in more languages are welcomed. We need translations to the target language, if different for male and female rowers separately, for athletes from these countries: query (ordered descending by number of affected items). Please make sure that translations obey capitalization rules from Help:Descriptions (in the target language version).