Template:Expand German
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Template documentationThis template may be used to mark articles that have counterparts in German Wikipedia that are better than in English Wikipedia. These articles may be improved by translating content from the original German.
Usage
To mark an article, tag it with
{{Expand German|German article title|date=October 2021}}
This template adds articles to the category Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia. See #Categorization below.
The template should be placed atop the article page along with other maintenance templates.
Parameters
The article title is required; all named parameters are optional:
|1=ARTICLE– title of the article on German Wikipedia. This is required.|section=yes– changes notice to "This section may be expanded..." (default: 'article')|fa=yes– used to tag articles that are featured articles in German; used in category name generation.|topic=TOPIC– a topic code used in category name generation.|date=October 2021– set by bot if omitted.
Topics and categorization
This template categorizes articles into categories. Basic categorization is into: ⟶ Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia. Usage of parameters fa and topic define subcategories, as follows:
Topic codes are expanded into fuller descriptors in the category name; for example: code geo becomes Geography, and code gov becomes Government and politics.
Topics recognized by Expand German and the categories they are associated with include:
| topic code | topic name and category | articles in category |
|---|---|---|
| bio | Biography | 75 |
| cult | Culture | 1,010 |
| geo | Geography | 4,724 |
| gov | Government and politics | 214 |
| hist | History | 19 |
| sci | Science | 20 |
| sport | Sports | 21 |
| struct | Building and structure | 492 |
| tech | Technology | 1 |
| transp | Transport | 5 |
| Main category | (13 C) 6,587 |
See also
- WP:CWW, policy which governs copying and translating articles from other language Wikipedias
- WP:TFOLWP, describes required attribution when adding translated content to an article
- Wikipedia:Translation, general info
- Help:Translation, a how-to page about how to copy and translate text from a Wikipedia foreign language article into English.
- Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
- {{Expand language}}, parent template
- {{Translated page}}, may be added to the Talk page to provide supplemental translation attribution
- {{Proofreader needed}}, may be added to the article page to request assistance after translation from a given language
- Random article needing expansion from German Wikipedia
- Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from German
- Category:Wikipedia translation templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki, WikiProject for translating content from non-English Wikipedias
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages, general WikiProject for languages