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Rules and policies for non-English articles in Proteopedia will be found at [[Proteopedia:Languages]]. | Rules and policies for non-English articles in Proteopedia will be found at [[Proteopedia:Languages]]. | ||
Of course, the English and non-English versions of an article will likely diverge as each is edited independently after the initial translation. While such divergence is undesirable, this problem seems to be outweighed by the value of having some articles in non-English languages. If you decide to translate a page, please add the original page to the list of your watched pages, to get notified by email when the original page changes. | Of course, the English and non-English versions of an article will likely diverge as each is edited independently after the initial translation. While such divergence is undesirable, this problem seems to be outweighed by the value of having some articles in non-English languages. If you decide to translate a page, please add the original page to the list of your ''watched'' pages, to get notified by email when the original page changes. | ||
==Preparation== | ==Preparation== | ||
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:<table border="1"><tr><td>[[Image:In other languages1.png]]</td></tr></table> | :<table border="1"><tr><td>[[Image:In other languages1.png]]</td></tr></table> | ||
For a highly-translated page, [[ | For a highly-translated page, [[Aricept Complexed with Acetylcholinesterase]], it looks like this: | ||
:<table border="1"><tr><td>[[Image:In other languages2.png]]</td></tr></table> | :<table border="1"><tr><td>[[Image:In other languages2.png]]</td></tr></table> | ||
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Please make one small change at a time -- one markup or one sentence. Then save and be sure the display is OK. If it is broken, you will know where the problem is. | Please make one small change at a time -- one markup or one sentence. Then save and be sure the display is OK. If it is broken, you will know where the problem is. | ||
If you save a page and get '''XML Error: Mismatched tag at line 1''', don't worry, you can recover your page: see [[Help:Errors]]. | |||
===Markup Examples=== | ===Markup Examples=== | ||