First, go learn about the TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge here (if you haven't yet):
The 2013 TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge!!! BATTLE TIME!!! Who will win? Portuguese, Turkish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian, Indonesian, Farsi, Chinese, or Vietnamese?
This contest lasts from November 30, 2013 to January 12th, 2014 (6 weeks).
All the tags are listed here: Wiki: Translation Tags
I wrote this article for you to use as a resource when you translate articles: Wiki: How to Translate TechNet Wiki Articles
So how are the languages doing after just two weeks?
- Portuguese – 65
- French – 26
- Thanks to Benoit and Yagmoth555 (Philippe)!
- German – 25
- Japanese – 5
- Italian – 2
- Thanks to Luigi and Carmelo!
- Russian – 1
Not yet started: Turkish, Spanish, Persian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, etc.
So a special welcome goes out to our two new languages in the contest… Japanese and Russian!
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For this 2013 contest, we want to get more of these articles about TechNet Wiki translated into more languages.
The idea is to check the list below to see which articles don't include translations for your language yet.
I updated this list (at the time of this post) to include all the current translated versions:
- How to Ban or Report a TechNet or MSDN User Account
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish
- Interview with a Wiki Ninja
- Finished (6): French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian
- TechNet Wiki Advisory Board
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- TechNet Wiki Community Council
- Finished (6): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- TechNet Wiki: Getting Started
- Finished (7): French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- TechNet Wiki Governance Bodies
- Finished (4): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese
- TechNet Wiki: How to Earn Recognition Points and Achievement Medals
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- TechNet Wiki: How to Join
- Finished (10): Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- TechNet Wiki International Council
- Finished (4): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- TechNet Wiki: Technology Tags
- Finished (5): French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese
- TechNet Wiki Turkish Council
- Wiki: About TechNet Wiki
- Finished (9): Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: All Things Profile
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: Best Practices for Giving Credit
- Finished (2): German, Portuguese
- Wiki: Code of Conduct
- Finished (6): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: Comments on TechNet Wiki
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: Common Tags
- Finished (6): French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: Create Quick and Basic Tables Using the Wiki HTML Editor
- Finished (4): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese
- Wiki: Cross-Linking
- Wiki: FAQ
- Wiki: How to Add a Video or Image to Your Article
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Add and Format Tables in TechNet Wiki
- Finished (2): French, Portuguese
- Wiki: How to Automatically Add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Your TechNet Wiki Article
- Finished (2): French, Portuguese
- Wiki: How to Build Community
- Finished (6): French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Change Your Avatar
- Finished (6): French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Change Your Display Name
- Finished (6): French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Contribute Content to TechNet Wiki
- Finished (6): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Create a Stub Article
- Finished (7): French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: How to File a TNWIKI Bug or Request a Feature
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Get a New Language Started or Expanded on TechNet Wiki
- Finished (2): French, Portuguese
- Wiki: How to Get Banned
- Finished (5): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Get Help for the Wiki
- Finished (6): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki
- Finished (4): French, German, Japanese, Portuguese
- Wiki: How to Monitor Content
- Finished (5): German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Paste a Table from Excel into TechNet Wiki
- Finished (3): French, German, Portuguese
- Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page
- Finished (3): French, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Revert an Article Change
- Finished (6): French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: How to Translate TechNet Wiki Articles
- Finished (2): Japanese, Portuguese
- Wiki: How to Use the Editor
- Finished (3): Dutch, Japanese, Spanish
- Wiki: Leadership Code of Conduct
- Finished (4): French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: Non-English Language Title Guidelines
- Finished (6): French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: Policies that Govern the Wiki
- Finished (4): French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: Roles
- Finished (7): French, German, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Wiki: Technical Editing
- Finished (4): French, German, Portuguese, Russian
- Wiki: Things That Destroy Community
- Finished (5): French, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Wiki: Translation Tags
- Finished (6): French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese
- Wiki: Types of Articles Not Appropriate for TechNet Wiki
- Finished (3): French, German, Portuguese
- Wiki: User Experience Guidelines
- Wiki: What Makes a Great Wiki Article
- Finished (5): Dutch, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Let us know your progress in the comments below!
Are you interested in helping translate TechNet Wiki into your language?
Please join us! And…
Welcome to Earth, TechNet Wiki style!
– Ninja Ed
I (or Japanese) joined the battle!!
Great post Ed – thanks for sharing!
Great Tomoaki ! It's nice to see the important Japanese language in this battle.
Thanks Ed.
The work continues and this “battle” is already becoming a paradox.
Because our Community is more united.
Congrats!
Tanks for invaluable information.
Tomoaki, Ha! Yes, you represent all of Japanese!
You’re welcome everyone!
Durval, that’s right! It’s more like taking a team effort and giving it a little friendly competition. And the community benefits from it greatly!
First, here were our previous blog posts for this contest:
11/30 – The 2013 TechNet Wiki Translation
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