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June 13

Expanding English article Humus from German article; where to put translated German page?

There's a request to expand the English Humus article [1] from the German one [2], and the German one is clearly better quality -- better organized, clearer, and possibly better technically.

Since they're both quite technical, and some of the differences may be differences in the English soil science terminology versus the German, I know I'll be translating most or all of the German one, lining them up, and then figuring out how to work the German into the English -- it will probably require at least some reorganization of the English one.

I'm not a soil scientist, just science-sophisticated, so clearly my German translation ought to stay available for soil scientists who don't know German to work with. Where should I put my translation?

Also, where should I work on it? On Wikipedia, or save to my own machine, and upload later?

This is my first translation for Wikipedia, so I'm not yet familiar with all the tools and procedures around translation. (I've done a fair number of same-language edits -- mostly cleanups and corrections.)

If there's a better place to ask this, please point me to it. Thanks!PatriciaJH (talk) 14:28, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, PatriciaJH. I don't know where would be the best place to put it: if you think it would be helpful to have it in Wikipedia, I suggest you put it in a User subpage. Make sure you attribute the source in your edit summary when you create it (see Copying within Wikipedia). Are you already familiar with WP:Translation? --ColinFine (talk) 18:40, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@PatriciaJH: You might also ask one of the regulars at pages needing translation; as for working on it, you might consider using a draft page. And for the rest, WP:Translation holds all the necessary information (especially regarding attribution). Lectonar (talk) 12:42, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]