Template:Translated Wikinews


Usage

This template is used when an article from another language edition of Wiknews is translated for use on Wikinews.

Note that for copyright licensing, a translation is considered a derivative of the original and must carry the same license as the original. Therefore if you have translated an article licensed CC-BY-2.5, the translation must also be CC-BY-2.5. In such cases, you must define this using cc-ver = 2.5. See below for an example as well as acceptable values for cc-ver.

Example

When translating an article licensed under CC-BY-3.0, placing the following code on a page:

{{Translated Wikinews/sandbox
| language = German
| wiki = de
| title = Airplane crash in South Korea: 179 of 181 passengers dead
| cc-ver = 3.0
}}

...renders the following:


When translating an article licensed under CC-BY-4.0, placing the following code on a page:

{{Translated Wikinews/sandbox
| language = German
| wiki = de
| title = Airplane crash in South Korea: 179 of 181 passengers dead
| cc-ver = 4.0
}}

...renders the following:


Parameters

language: The name of the language, e.g., Spanish, Esperanto, German, Portuguese, etc.

wiki: The language code of the wiki, e.g., es, eo, de, pt, etc.

title: The title of the article in the original language

cc-ver: Optional if 4.0. The Creative Commons version of the original article, e.g., 2.5, 3.0, 4.0. Using value 4.0 is optional and does not mention the version, which is already mentioned in every article's footer.

See also