Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Intertranswiki/Archive 4

Translating English Good articles into other languages?

I often see many Good articles here at English Wikipedia that do not exist at other language projects, even as stubs. I'm curious, is there a project where editors translate Good articles and attempt to get them promoted to Good status at other Wikipedias? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:32, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

It's a good question, and one to which I do not know the answer. But if you only enter it here, then I fear your are sharing it with very few people, so you're unlikely to get any reaction more useful than this one. If you want to pursue it with vigour, I think the place to enter your ideas might be the talk pages of the individual country by country pages (or rather their related talk pages), which get a much larger e-footfall.

That said (written) there are vanishingly few individuals contributing to wikipedia or anywhere else who can write mother tongue quality prose in more than one language. So if you want to promote the idea of taking good English wikipedia articles to other languages (without massacring the syntax and without failing to adapt/allow for differing local awarenesss levels covering context/background) then maybe you should address the matter in Spanish/Russian/German/Dutch/Mandarin ... whatever language wikis rather than in English language wikipedia. For better and worse - and in terms of international understanding it's most likely "our loss" - there appear to be far more people in Germany or the Netherlands or Russia or (for that matter) China with a good understanding of English than there are in England with a usable understanding of other folks' languages.

Risk of digression? Probably. The second cup of breakfast coffee hasn't cut in yet. But I wish you success if you will muster the energy to run with this one a bit and see what happens.

Regards Charles01 (talk) 06:39, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

RfC

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout#Placement of expand language templates that may be of interest to those watching this page. Thanks. TimothyJosephWood 12:12, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Help requested - translation from 17th century Italian

I have done the best that I can in Saint Dominic in Soriano#A description of the painting, but am not convinced that I am right; especially for "co'l uolio alquanto affilato" and "a faccia è molto bianca, & hà co'l cadere congiunta la palidezza". I would welcome expert assistance, Narky Blert (talk) 22:46, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

You may have thought that there's nobody here .... and indeed.... This page doesn't get very many visitors, and those that do make it this far are still pretty unlikely to get past the proliferation of past sell-by date screaming banners that the women in red folks like to nail to the walls in perpetuity. So would you have any objection if I were to copy 'n past your message to here?

I agree that it makes a lot of sense, where subject-matter and language become a bit specialist as here, to leave the original text prominently displayed in the hope that some art-history scholar can come along and endorse or improve (or both) the translation. It's intriguing and helpful - as far as I can make out from the text you reference - that what later became identified as the Italian language appears not to have changed as much as some of our other western languages since 1634. I suppose the legacy of still widely used Latin provided a stabilising support.

Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Bot Request to Cleanup Category:Featured articles needing translation from <language>

A bot request has been recently created to clean up articles that no longer have FA status on their host Wikipedia page from Category:Featured articles needing translation from <language>. Any comments would be appreciated. Kadane (talk) 18:38, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. But I don't really understand what it means / involves. I'm afraid I only just noticed your message by which time the "Bot request" has disappeared - presumably archived somewhere. But if it ever happened, can you provide a link to the relevant pages so I can work out what was done and what has changed, please? Regards Charles01 (talk) 10:52, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Please help

Please help improve the style of the article Dissolution of United States. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 14:56, 30 July 2019 (UTC)