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This template may be used to mark articles that have counterparts in French Wikipedia that are better than in English Wikipedia. These articles may be improved by translating content from the original French.
Usage
To mark an article, tag it with
{{Expand French|French article title|date=July 2024}}
This template adds articles to the category Category:Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia. See #Categorization below.
The template should be placed atop the article page along with other maintenance templates.
Parameters
All parameters are optional:
|1=ARTICLE– title of the article on French Wikipedia. This defaults to the article linked to the English article via Wikidata.|section=yes– changes notice to "This section may be expanded..." (default: 'article')|fa=yes– used to tag articles that are featured articles in French; used in category name generation.|topic=TOPIC– a topic code used in category name generation.|date=July 2024– set by bot if omitted.
Topics and categorization
This template categorizes articles into categories. Basic categorization is into: ⟶ Category:Articles needing translation from French 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 French and the categories they are associated with include:
| topic code | topic name and category | articles in category |
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| bio | Biography | 4,615 |
| cult | Culture | 416 |
| geo | Geography | (18 C) 8,231 |
| gov | Government and politics | 1,491 |
| hist | History | 117 |
| mil | Military | 192 |
| scitech | Science and technology | 133 |
| sport | Sports | 146 |
| struct | Building and structure | 670 |
| transp | Transport | 356 |
| commune | French commune | (84 C) 5 |
| Main category | (12 C) 1,484 |
Adding a new topic and subcategory
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This section provides information about categorization in the {{Expand language}} suite of templates, and explains how to make a new subcategory available for use in a particular language template by use of a topic code. Editors may then employ the topic code in the {{Expand French}} template as shorthand for categorizing the article in which it appears into a subcategory associated with that topic code. If you've done this before, and just need a refresher, see Quickstart. Otherwise, skip to the gory details below. Here is a summary of the steps to add a new subcategory and a new topic code to the table for Template:Expand French (details follow):
A topic code is just an abbreviation or word, like bio for "Biography", or sport for "Sports". Associating a topic code with a subcategory name, and enabling its use to categorize articles on which the
The {{Expand language}} suite of templates automatically categorizes pages on which it appears into Adding a new topic goes hand in hand with creating a new subcategory in which to categorize articles needing expansion. The top level (and sometimes only) category for articles needing expansion for a given language follows this pattern:
But the top level category can often grow to many hundreds or thousands of articles and that's too much for one category. In order to facilitate a better and more useful categorization, the {{Expand language}} suite of templates supports subcategorization into a number of subcategories using the
would categorize the article in which it appears into subcategory ⟶ Category:Biography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia . The rows in the topic code table show what subcategories already exist under the top level category for a given language; for example, for French, the topic code table is here. The existing subcategories can be found by clicking (or mousing over) the topic names in column two of the table. There are ten predefined topic codes that are conventionally available for addition to, and use by, any of the Expand LanguageName templates. They are: bio, cult, geo, gov, hist, mil, sci, sport, struct, and transp. Each code is recognized by param
{{Transcat|language=French|topic=bio}}
{{CatAutoTOC}}
Creating a new subcategory is independent of the Expand language template, and one could always categorize an article into the subcategory the way any article is categorized, simply by adding the category between brackets to the end of the article. But to make subcategorization easier, the specific Expand language template for a given language will categorize the article into a subcategory automatically, if the correct association between topic code and topic name appears in the wikicode of the template. Edit the specific Expand language template for the given language; for example, for French: edit Template:Expand French The association between topic code and topic name for a given language, and by extension between the topic code and the subcategory name, occurs in the wikicode of the specific language name templates, in particular, in the assignment of To classify articles into the new subcategory, use a specific Expand language template with the
Topic codes that are not among the standard ten may be created for specific languages and associated with new subcategories as needed. Define a topic code, a topic name corresponding to the variable part of the subcategory name, and add it to the template #switch statement. To add the new code to the topic table in the doc page, create a /topics subpage, e.g., Template:Expand French/topics in which the row for the topics table is defined. If the file exists, it is transcluded at the end of the table. For an example, see This is a more advanced type of operation which requires some basic knowledge of template writing, so it may be easier to do this by adding an Edit request on the Talk page of the template concerned. In the Edit request, specify the topic code and subcategory name you wish to add. For example, you could say, "Please add new topic code mtn to {{Expand Nepali}} which should categorize articles containing |
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 French Wikipedia
- Category:Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from French
- Category:Wikipedia translation templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki, WikiProject for translating content from non-English Wikipedias
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages, general WikiProject for languages