BRL-CAD:Language policy

This page describes the current multi-lingual policy on brlcad.org.

Help: namespace

Within the Help: namespace we are building a set of public domain help pages. The aim is to provide a basic set of help pages that may be imported into new wikis covering the basic editing and usage instructions. These should be translated into as many languages as possible.

• English is the main reference language, and all root pages should be named and written in English.
• Other languages should be placed in an appropriately named sub-page of the English version. E.g. the French version of Help:Contents should be at Help:Contents/fr (not Help:Sommaire, Aide:Sommaire or Help:Sommaire/fr).
• Language sub-pages should be named using the appropriate language code for that language (see below).
• Sub-pages should only be used for translations into other languages, not for English content (e.g. you shouldn't use Table editing/example - use Table editing example or Example of table editing instead).
• If an international version of a page exists but an English version does not, then please create a stub article for the English version as this aids navigation.
• All pages in the help namespace should be tagged with the {{Languages}} template, which automatically creates links to all available translations.

This system will be compatible with the planned automated import/export of Help pages, but may need a bit of working around to export/import non-English pages in the interim.

The main page

The English version of our front page is located at Main_Page. Translated versions are located at Main_Page/code, where code is the language code (e.g. Main_Page/es). Please see Project:Main page templates for more details about creating or editing this content.

Importantly, the rules about language codes (see below) should be followed here as well.