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The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia.It has 2,004,367 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013.
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.--
The content translation tool assists users in translating existing Wikipedia articles from one language to another. Users select an article in any language, then select another language, and the interface provides machine translation which the human user can then use as inspiration to make readable text in another language.
If the English article already exists (but a translation would be useful because the article in the other language is of higher quality, or includes additional information): simply place a translation template from the category Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates on the English article page.
4. Translation Guidelines When translating articles from one language Wikipedia to another: Accuracy: Ensure that you translate the meaning correctly without introducing errors or personal opinions. Neutrality: The article must maintain a neutral tone, even if the original article contains biased language or controversial topics.
For example, if the article is about Poland, it is likely that at least some of the people involved in editing it can read Polish. Leave your remarks, with a note in English requesting translation, and someone will most likely translate them. A clear note to this effect would be "Please, could somebody translate my remarks into English?" N.B.
To add an article to this category, tag it with {{Expand Spanish}}. (Do not add articles to this category directly.) (Do not add articles to this category directly.) This category is not shown on its member pages unless the appropriate user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.
The system is intended to be easy for the contributor. Each article has only one detailed page to update as translation work progresses. It will follow the article at every step of the translation, keeping track of all the information on it when used as a template ( {{Wikipedia:Translation/(Name of article here)}} ).