User talk:Proba.test

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Translation, which is the correct approach?
Hey, thanks for your welcome message. I'm looking for two days now, to find a good strategy/approach to translate an article (ro:AMIC). I want to translate this article from romanian to german, but I'm not sure how to do it correctly; Should I just create a new article for the translated content and than to add in the summary something like "Content in this edit is from the existing Romanian Wikipedia article at aMic; see its history" (as suggested in Translate_us) and afterwards to add a language link to the original article? I've also added an translation/import request on de:Wikipedia:Importwünsche/Importupload some days ago, but I can't find my request anymore, maybe it was deleted or I didn't request it correctly...

Thank you in advance for your help!

PS: Is it possible to use an english template as { { Being translated } } in a german article?

Proba.test (talk) 20:03, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * You'll want to ask that at the German Wikipedia; editors at the English Wikipedia are unlikely to help you since the various Wikipedias' guidelines and policies may differ, and if I remember correctly the German Wikipedia's guidelines on translation, in particular, differ from the English Wikipedia's. I don't see that you have ever added an import request at the German Wikipedia; your only contributions over there were in 2013. 217.191.115.129 (talk) 20:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * You can always translate the article in your own sandbox at the German Wikipedia: de:Wikipedia:Spielwiese. You can then ask someone at de:Wikipedia:Übersetzungshilfe to review it before you publish it on de:aMIC. This way, you can work at your own pace and don't have to worry about messing anything up. In general, templates from one Wikipedia don't work in another language Wikipedia. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 08:31, 5 June 2015 (UTC) [edited 08:38, 5 June 2015 (UTC)]


 * Thanks for the answers! However I will write it on my page first. The point is, that the German Wikipedia sandbox, 'Spielwiese' is regularly cleaned and I don't want to lose the content I already translated . Proba.test (talk)


 * Oh, right! I wasn't sure if there would be a link on Wikipedia:Spielwiese to create your own sandbox. Anyway, you can start one at de:Benutzer:Proba.test/Spielwiese. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 13:57, 5 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I have an other big problem: The author uploaded for the article mentioned above, an image which, I think, is protected/non-Free (| see picture here). How can I reuse this picture for the german version? I'm almost sure, the user which uploaded this image was not the creator of it, he found it in an other historical document, so he is not the author of this image either. Proba.test (talk)


 * Because you want to use the image on the German Wikipedia, you should consult their image use policy: de:Wikipedia:Bildrechte. You can also ask questions regarding copyright at de:Wikipedia:Urheberrechtsfragen. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 08:17, 6 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I did what you said, and the german team says, it's not possible to reupload it to wikimedia since this fair-use specification, which was used for this picture, does not exist on commons.wikimedia. Too bad... at the end, the use of the picture stays the same as before, just in an other language. Proba.test (talk)