Template:Google translation/doc

Usage
This template creates an external link to a Google Translate page, which can translate the text from a Web page in a source language to a destination language. Syntax:

If you leave the  argument blank, “Google translation” appears as the default text.

Some URLs that contain special characters, such as  or , will break the template. The solution is to prepend the URL with, for example   resulting in

The following languages below are available in any pairings, with their language code following the dash. (As of August 13, 2008):
 * Arabic – ar
 * Bulgarian – bg
 * Chinese (Simplified) – zh-CN
 * Chinese (Traditional) – zh-TW (only available as a destination language)
 * Croatian – hr
 * Czech – cs
 * Danish – da
 * Dutch – nl
 * English – en
 * Finnish – fi
 * French – fr
 * German – de
 * Greek – el
 * Hindi – hi
 * Italian – it
 * Japanese – ja
 * Korean – ko
 * Norweigan – no
 * Polish – pl
 * Portuguese – pt
 * Romanian – ro
 * Russian – ru
 * Spanish – es
 * Swedish – sv

Some are in BETA version, and all of them provide translations which quality is not as good as a professional translation. However, these translations are useful to get a rough idea of the original document. See Google Translate for updates to the list of available languages.

Avoid using in articles
WP:EL advises against linking to non-English content from articles in the English Wikipedia, but does not forbid it in all cases. Links to machine-translated pages from articles may lead to disputes with other editors, who may feel the quality of translation is insufficient to create a reliable source. Therefore, use your judgment, and check the quality of translation to make sure it is adequate to use as a source.

There should be no problem with using this template on non-article pages, such as talk pages, the Help desk, and so on. See the similar advice for template such as Google.