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This template may be used to give information about content imported into the English Wikipedia from a non-English-language Wikipedia. Placing this template on the Talk page of an article is not sufficient to satisfy licensing requirements. To do so, a note identifying the Wikimedia source (such as an interlanguage link) and the page name must be provided in an edit summary in the translated page. (See here for rationale.)

Usage

On the talk page of an article (or other page) incorporating a translation, insert the following:
{{translated page|SourceLanguageCode|SourcePageTitle|version=123456789|insertversion=987654321|section=name}}

Parameter	Required?	Usage
1 (first parameter)	Yes	The language code of the source page, for example de for German, fr for French, or another from meta:List of Wikipedias.
2 (second parameter)	Yes	The exact name of the source page. (This will become a link, so non-English characters must be retained. Do not transliterate the title.)
3 (third parameter)	No	Additional pertinent information, in sentence form. This will be inserted at the end of the standard text.
version	Recommended	The version identifier of the revision of the source page from which the translation was derived. (To find this, select the history of the source page, and click on the date that corresponds to that revision. The resulting page will have a URL that ends with a number, e.g. ...oldid=123456789. That number is the version identifier.)
insertversion	Recommended	The version identifier of the revision of the target page into which the translation was placed. (Follow the same procedure as for version, but with the target page.)
section	No	If the inserted translation is contained in one section of the target page, insert its name here. (A direct link to that section will be created.)
small	No	This template defaults to a small message box (equivalent to small=yes). If you have good reason to use a full-sized talk page banner instead, small=no will generate one.
nocat	No	Set this parameter to nocat=true only when transcluding the template as an example. (For example, it is used on this documentation page to prevent this page from being categorized as a translation.) Further information is available at Wikipedia:Category suppression.
partial	No	Set this parameter to any non-blank value when the translation is a partial translation.

In the preceding table, the first and second (unnamed) parameters are required in order to comply with Wikimedia projects' licensing terms (e.g. CC BY-SA). The version and insertversion parameters are (strongly) recommended, because they allow readers to identify the exact source and target revisions, without searching through the revision histories.

This template can be used more than once, if several translations were inserted (from several revisions of one article, several articles and/or several Wikipedias). Group the {{translated page}} templates in chronological order, with the newest (i.e. largest insertversion, when used) on top. Arrange the {{translated page}} boxes with other low-priority items, just before the first topic on the talk page. Even if a section of the talk page talks about the translation, avoid placing {{translated page}} there, because the template should not be moved when the section is archived.

Note that this template is a self reference, and therefore should be placed on talk pages and not used directly in articles.

Wikipedia:Template namespace has a general introduction to the use of templates.

Unless nocat=true is set, pages will be automatically categorised into Category:Translated pages, or the appropriate sub-category. Mainspace pages where this template has been accidentally placed (instead of on the associated talk page) are categorised into Category:Pages with incorrect translated page tag.

Right-to-left character sets

When translating from a language with a right-to-left character set, it may be necessary to place the page name last. Use 2= and, if desired, 3= to re-order parameters.

Examples

The following code would produce the message boxes at right, from top to bottom:

• {{translated page|fr|Dassault Super-Étendard|version=45069858|insertversion=319465919|section=Accidents and incidents}}
• {{translated page|de|ICE 1|version=45565777|insertversion=210289191}}
• {{translated page|he|3=It is an example translation from Hebrew.|2=אלי_קנר}}

Multiple notices may also be grouped, and optionally collapsed. The following wikicode:

{{Banner holder |collapsed=yes |text=This page contains text [[WP:TFOLWP|translated]] from other articles |image=Merge-arrow-3.svg |size=36 |1=
  {{translated page|fr|Dassault Super-Étendard| version=45069858|insertversion=319465919|section=Accidents and incidents}}
  {{translated page|de|ICE 1| version=45565777|insertversion=210289191}}
  {{translated page|he|3=It is an example translation from Hebrew.|2=אלי_קנר}}
}}

would produce this banner:

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Translated page in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Translated page

Used to indicate that a page was translated from another language

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Language code of source page	1	no description Example fr	Unknown	required
Exact source page name	2	no description	Unknown	required
Additional information	3	no description	Unknown	optional
Revision ID	version	no description Example 123457201	Number	suggested
Revision ID of the target page where the translation was inserted	insertversion	no description Example 12345678	Number	suggested
Section name of translated material	section	no description	String	optional
Whether to render a small or big box	small	no description	Boolean	optional
Category suppression	nocat	no description	Boolean	optional
partial	partial	no description	Unknown	optional
large	large	no description	Unknown	deprecated

See also

• {{Expand language}}, which has several sub-templates such as {{Expand Spanish}}, {{Expand German}}, etc.
• {{Rough translation}}, for a translation which may likely contain errors and needs attention
• {{Cleanup translation}}, for requesting help from someone with dual fluency
• {{Proofreader needed}}, for requesting a proofread
• {{Copied}}, for content copied from one page to another within the English Wikipedia
• {{Interlanguage link}}, for creating a redlink to a topic that has an article on another language's Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia
• {{banner holder}}, like the translation shell above; useful for grouping {{Copied}} templates with this one.

Notes

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Translated page/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.