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Wiki: Non-English Language Title Guidelines

Wiki: Non-English Language Title Guidelines

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General

Articles in the English language Wiki with non-English words in the title and/or body text should include the language code from the list below in parentheses as the last seven characters of the title, like this: "Wiki Article Title (it-IT)". Not only is this important so that the reader quickly knows what language the article is in when searching, but it also is necessary to avoid a bug where the non-English article "steals" the ability to have an English article with a similar name. We are not adding language codes to the titles of articles in the Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese versions of the Wiki, because the language of all articles in those Wiki's will be clear. 

NOTE: Please do not include "(en-US)" in the title of English articles. See Wiki Governance: Whether or Not "(en-US)" Should be Added to the Title of English Articles.

Also, you need to include the code as a tag at the bottom of the article. For example, the tag for an Italian article in the English language Wiki would be "it-IT". This is so that we can click the tag and see all the articles in that language (click the links below to see). Because readers can filter by multiple tags, this allows them to see only the articles in a tag list that are in a specific language and on a specific topic. Not only is this practice convenient for the people who read that language, but it is also necessary for when we migrate the files to a language-specific Wiki version.

Some of the codes below are linked to the tag pages that list out all the articles that use that tag (in other words, click the language code to see all the articles in that language):


Primary localization languages

Language Code
English en-US
Arabic ar-SA
Chinese - Simplified zh-CN
Chinese - Traditional zh-TW
Czech cs-CZ
Danish da-DK
Dutch nl-NL
Finnish fi-FI
French fr-FR
German de-DE
Greek el-GR
Hebrew he-IL
Hungarian hu-HU
Italian it-IT
Japanese ja-JP
Korean ko-KR
Norwegian (Bokmål) nb-NO
Polish pl-PL
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT
Russian ru-RU
Spanish es-ES
Swedish sv-SE
Turkish tr-TR


Other languages

Language Code
Afrikaans af-ZA
Albanian sq-AL
Amharic am-ET
Armenian hy-AM
Assamese as-IN
Azeri (Latin) az-Latn-AZ
Basque eu-ES
Belarusian be-BY
Bengali (Bangladesh) bn-BD
Bengali (India) bn-IN
Bosnian (Cyrillic) bs-Cyrl-BA
Bosnian (Latin) bs-Latn-BA
Bulgarian bg-BG
Catalan ca-ES
Croatian hr-HR
Estonian et-EE
Filipino fil-PH
French (Canada) fr-CA
Galician gl-ES
Georgian ka-GE
Gujarati gu-IN
Hausa ha-Latn-NG
Hindi hi-IN
Icelandic is-IS
Igbo ig-NG
Indonesian id-ID
Inuktitut iu-Latn-CA
Irish ga-IE
isiXhosa xh-ZA
isiZulu zu-ZA
Kannada kn-IN
Kazakh kk-KZ
Khmer km-KH
Kinyarwanda rw-RW
Kiswahili sw-KE
Konkani kok-IN
Kyrgyz ky-KG
Lao lo-LA
Latvian lv-LV
Lithuanian lt-LT
Luxembourgish lb-LU
Macedonia (FYROM) mk-MK
Malay (Brunei Darussalam) ms-BN
Malay (Malaysia) ms-MY
Malayalam ml-IN
Maltese mt-MT
Maori mi-NZ
Marathi mr-IN
Nepali ne-NP
Norwegian (Nynorsk) nn-NO
Oriya or-IN
Pashto ps-AF
Persian (Farsi) fa-IR
Punjabi pa-IN
Quechua quz-PE
Romanian ro-RO
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-Cyrl-CS
Serbian (Latin) sr-Latn-CS
Sesotho sa Leboa nso-ZA
Setswana tn-ZA
Sinhala si-LK
Slovak sk-SK
Slovenian sl-SI
Tamil ta-IN
Tatar tt-RU
Telugu te-IN
Thai th-TH
Ukrainian uk-UA
Urdu ur-PK
Uzbek (Latin) uz-Latn-UZ
Vietnamese vi-VN
Welsh cy-GB
Wolof wo-SN
Yoruba yo-NG

See Also

Other Languages

 

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  • 5 Sep 2013 12:27 AM

    Balaji M Kundalam edited Revision 52. Comment: Added a link to Tamil language tag result

  • 23 May 2013 1:29 AM

    Peter Geelen - MSFT edited Revision 46. Comment: Layout update

  • 25 Sep 2012 12:59 AM

    Zoltán Horváth edited Revision 42. Comment: added hu-HU version (done with translation)

  • 2 Apr 2012 9:30 AM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 36. Comment: White space

  • 31 Mar 2012 5:24 AM

    Horizon_Net edited Revision 35. Comment: added language tags

  • 31 Mar 2012 12:58 AM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 34. Comment: TOC and Spanish version

  • 2 Mar 2012 9:10 PM

    Yagmoth555 edited Revision 31. Comment: edited: added fr-CA language code

  • 24 Feb 2012 8:58 PM

    yottun8 edited Revision 30. Comment: Added "Other Languages" and ja-JP link.

  • 31 Jan 2012 5:40 AM

    Patris_70 edited Revision 29. Comment: added Romaniam link (ro-RO)

  • 14 Dec 2011 5:29 AM

    Patris_70 edited Revision 28. Comment: updated vi-VN links

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  • Posted by
    on 11 Mar 2010 12:28 PM

    Monica Rush edited Original. Comment: Did just a little tidying up.

  • Posted by
    on 16 Mar 2010 7:40 PM

    Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 1. Comment: Added "See Also" link.

  • Posted by
    on 13 May 2010 5:47 PM

    Bruno Lewin MSFT edited Revision 2. Comment: Updated Chinese Simplified & Traditional codes to zh-Hans/zh-Hant

  • Posted by
    on 12 Aug 2010 10:08 AM

    Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 3. Comment: Updated the title so this is easier to find.

  • Posted by
    on 29 Sep 2010 2:25 PM

    Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 6. Comment: Reduced to two alphabetical lists with clear starting points (it was 4 alpha lists).

  • Posted by
    on 15 Aug 2011 2:40 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 17. Comment: Added link to "si-LK" tag.

  • Posted by
    on 22 Aug 2011 2:45 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 18. Comment: Linked to the Polish tag.

  • Posted by
    on 22 Aug 2011 4:32 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 20. Comment: Added link to Norwegian. Also being clearer about the reasons for adding the code to the title and tags.

  • Posted by
    on 22 Aug 2011 4:38 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 21. Comment: Adding links for Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish

  • Posted by
    on 22 Aug 2011 4:42 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 22. Comment: Adding a link to Portuguese (Portugal)

  • Posted by
    on 23 Aug 2011 1:56 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 23. Comment: Adding a link to Thai (th-TH)

  • Posted by
    on 5 Nov 2011 10:13 AM

    This is useful.

    What about the translation method: manual or automatic (by means of Microsoft Translator)?

    Are contributors encouraged to write articles both in English and in their native languages (or in any other language they are able to speak/write)? If this is the case, shall they have to create a page (like the one at social.technet.microsoft.com/.../microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2-sp1-release-notes-language-options.aspx) that provides links to the multiple translations of a page?

  • Posted by
    on 7 Nov 2011 6:15 PM

    Thanks for your comment Luigi.

    For links: we're exploring various options, and for now, putting the links to other languages in the article itself is a popular option (like on this page -  social.technet.microsoft.com/.../706.aspx ).

    For translation: this is very much encouraged. At this point, I'm suggesting staying away from "pure" machine translation as this is still a lot of copy/paste work and a human's time might be better spend doing things that humans are good at. But using automatic translation AND post-edit it can save a lot of time.

    I've sent you a private message to discuss options including creating an article with relevant info so all can benefit...

  • Posted by
    on 8 Nov 2011 8:27 AM

    Thanks Bruno. I'll answer your message as soon as possibile.

  • Posted by
    on 11 Dec 2011 6:52 AM

    Luigi Bruno edited Revision 27. Comment: Edited the "Primary localization languages" table.

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