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WikiTutur : help needed to set up translation page(s)

See WikiTutur, {{WikiTutur portal navigation}}, {{ll}}.

Hello All,

The WikiTutur project page needs help to set up translation. While this project's leaders report on this meta page in English, this "portal" content is not available in the common Indonesian language of the very communities who contributes to this project. Help therefore much welcome. Yug (talk) 10:47, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Done by NikolasKHF. Thanks to them. 🙂 -- Pols12 (talk) 13:25, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Portuguese language

Dear Sirs, The websites from wikis Wikimedia and translatewiki.net in Portuguese isn't almost in Portuguese at all. It is in Portuguese (Brazil) that is not the same. The Portuguese (Brazil) doesn't represent the Portuguese language is the other way around. The Portuguese language is represented by the Portuguese (Portugal) only. Why no one help and ignore the Portuguese language?! And why the Brazilians are saying to the Portuguese translators that some of the translations have years and that they should not be fixed?! It is more than wrong this attitude and does not follow the guidelines of the Wikimedia. Hope that someone could from Portuguese community could help. I can carry on helping more within the Portuguese language and bring it to the way it should be. I am a Portuguese native and translator since 1984 by education and help Mozilla within the SUMO translations, Weblate proofreader, Mattermost proofreader, and with more than 20 years of experience in software translation. Thank you so much for your time. Kind regards Man Sil (talk) 15:19, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

We can't speak to what is on translatewiki here, you should follow up any questions about that project over there. However, there are a couple of related things on our projects:

• We do support both Portugese (pt) and Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR) in our interface, however we are dependent on those existing upstream.
• We do not have different dialect-specific projects such as The Portuguese Wikipedia and The Portuguese (Brazilian) Wikipedia. Just as we do not have different Wikipedias for English, English-GB, English-CA, English-AU, and English-IN. In general, our base-language projects welcome all dialects, usually with guidelines to not mix dialects on the same page in a way that may confuse readers. For ptwiki, see their guidance here: w:pt:Wikipédia:Livro de estilo#Versões da língua portuguesa.
• Rarely will a project split over dialect, but it is possible (e.g. zhwiki and zh-yuewiki). This would require that a sufficient community of dialect-specific volunteers are ready to run the project.

As far as LOCAL pt translations go, the scope of this page - users should not be edit warring over regional dialects in our translations. In general, whoever translates a page first can pick; ideally the entire page should use a consistent dialect. Keep in mind, that most users will NOT have their language set to pt-BR, so the general expectation is that the translations are in to pt.

Is there a specific problem you are running in to? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:19, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

I know that the Wikipedia has only the PT language but I do not participate in there as the PT is almost pt-BR language that is wrong but is a thing that I will not fight because is a waist of time as other Portuguese users tried and failed. The text in the link above is pt-BR text.

And as you can see here from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_European_Portuguese:

The Portuguese Wiki is (at least for me) an unacceptable medium in which I cannot freely write and edit! The Brazilians aggressively dominate the Wiki and have imposed their standards on european portuguese speakers. I believe it is time for each to go his way so that both sides are free to write the way they consider to be most correct. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.137.112.6 (talk • contribs).

And in https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Pt it is almost the same. We translate and fix the PT language and the Brazilians colleagues revert them again to the ones with pt-BR terms. WRONG

And no one sort this unfortunately.

But in the Wikimedia wikis where exist the PT language the most have pt-BR terms and it is wrong that. :(

I have been trying to update them but sometimes some are reverted to the ones with the pt-Br terms.

I know that we have only a few people within the Portuguese language and almost none helping with the translations as we need too much time to do it and revise them.

I am available now as I have time to do it.

But to have someone reverting the translations/corrections is a waste of our time. :(

Man Sil (talk) 14:46, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Please note that this page is dedicated to discussions about translations-related issues here on Meta-Wiki. Are you having an issue related to on-wiki translation here on our project? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:55, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

The only problem that I found here is our Brazilians colleagues do not respect the translations in pt.

And if I am not wrong about what I have read they aren't respecting the guidelines da Wikimedia.

The pt language SHOULD HAVE ONLY Portuguese (Portugal) terms as exist the pt variants na Wikimedia.

Thank you for tour time.

Man Sil (talk) 16:23, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Translation help for the Conference Grants FAQ

Hello, can someone help with translation approval of the Conference Grants FAQ page,so I can start translating. Our Japanese community would like to review and discuss this FAQ before submitting a Conference Fund Round 2 application (submission deadline: 2 February 2026). We would appreciate it if this could be done within about a week, if possible. Thank you.--佐佐木どうよ (talk) 16:18, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Sorry I forgot the link Grants:Conference/WMF Travel Team Support! Thank you! --佐佐木どうよ (talk) 16:19, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Marked for translation. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:00, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much!--佐佐木どうよ (talk) 23:03, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Creating history web page for Local Marwari users

This page will focus on mainly translation of historic documentations from hindi to marwari and covering of Marwari historic documentations so these people can access the wiki. Aman Singh Rashtrakuta (talk) 09:56, 7 January 2026 (UTC)