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The Spanish Translation of the Week or SPATRA is a collaborative effort to translate worthy Spanish articles on subjects which may not otherwise have been addressed on the English Wikipedia. Anyone, no matter what their level of fluency in Spanish or English, is welcome to add their name to the list of translators and lend a hand.
The ideal selection is one which has reached feature article status at es:Wikipedia:Artículos destacados, but practically speaking can be any article that appears solid, accurate, and free of copyright issues. It is also preferable that there be no English article or only a basic stub.
Be bold in your translations and civil in your interactions with collaborators. If your language skills are less than perfect, someone will happily fix your mistakes; conversely, never hesitate to correct any mistakes you find. As for any Wikipedia article, expansion of the article with appropriate material is also welcome. More guidelines, such as the prohibition against pure machine translation, can be found at Wikipedia:Translation into English.
The SPATRA process
Selecting the next SPATRA
The selection process involves three steps:
Nomination: New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of the Candidates for next week section. Insightful comments may assist others in casting their vote.
Voting: To vote for an article, add your ~~~~ under the article's support section. Any registered Wikipedian can vote on this page, regardless of their Spanish skill.
Selection: The SPATRA is selected by approval voting; thus, you may vote for as many candidates as you like, and opposition votes have no bearing. The article with the most support votes is selected as the winner. In case of a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.
How to nominate an article
Note to contributors:
To add a new nomination, please:
(1) Copy the template below
(2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
(3) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
(4) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
After nominating an article please place {{SPATRAnom}} on the article's talk page.
Copy and paste the entire Spanish article into the English article plus "/Translation" at the end of the article name.
Add {{SpanTransWeek|]}} to the top of the new article
Cite the Spanish article in the references section with {{SPATRAcite|:es:Título|date}}
Link to the Spanish article by placing ] at the end of the article
Link that Spanish article back to the English translation by placing ] at the end of the Spanish article
Finally, if the original article was a featured article in the Spanish Wikipedia, place {{Link FA|es}} at the end and {{FeaturedElsewhere|Spanish|:es:Original_Article_Name}} at the top of the article's discussion page.
I was involved in the clean up of the stubby English version of this article. Recently a machine translation of the Spanish article (which *looks* to be quite comprehensive) was attempted by the Spanish article's primary author User:Saeta (a.k.a es:Usuario:Lobillo) who clearly wants to expand the article and would surely be a great resource. Also, writing/translating the article should be both interesting and, well, fun.--DO11.1019:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Spanish Wikipedia artículo destacado which is quite lengthy and well-referenced, on a medieval topic that we don't seem to cover. -Fsotrain0919:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
The English article has a good article structure, but its almost blank, and the Spanish article is rated GOOD. Jerez is one of the most important cities in the South of Spain and probably deserved a better article than the current one.--Wafry (talk) 14:26, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Yahoo Online Spanish-English Dictionary - a very versatile Spanish<>English Dictionary. Searches most conjugations in both languages, includes some slang and idioms.