Template:Expand Sinhala/doc

This template may be used to mark articles that have counterparts in Sinhala Wikipedia that are better than in Simple English Wikipedia. These articles may be improved by translating content from the original Sinhala.

Usage

To mark an article, tag it with

{{Expand Sinhala|Sinhala article title|date=May 2024}}

This template adds articles to the category Category:Articles needing translation from Sinhala Wikipedia. See #Categorization below.

The template should be placed atop the article page along with other maintenance templates.

Parameters

The article title is required; all named parameters are optional:

• |1=ARTICLE – title of the article on Sinhala Wikipedia. This is required.
• |section=yes – changes notice to "This section may be expanded..." (default: 'article')
• |date=May 2024 – set by bot if omitted.

Topics and categorization

This template categorizes articles into categories. Basic categorization is into: ⟶ Category:Articles needing translation from Sinhala Wikipedia. Usage of parameters fa and topic define subcategories.

Related pages

• 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 Simple 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 Sinhala Wikipedia
• Category:Articles needing translation from Sinhala Wikipedia
• Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from Sinhala
• Category:Wikipedia translation templates
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki, WikiProject for translating content from non-English Wikipedias
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages, general WikiProject for languages