Language guides

Many wikis in the Wikimedia world give editors suggestions about the correct usage of each respective language: orthography, register, punctuation, and so on.

It's inconvenient to link them using interlanguage links (a.k.a. Wikidata sitelinks), because such pages are, by definition, different for each language in their content. Often they are also different in their own structure: for example, some wikis may have just one page for this, some wikis may have only a section in another page, and some wikis may have several pages. This page is a flexible central repository for those pages.

All languages and all kinds of wikis and projects are welcome here—both content projects like Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, and community wikis like Outreach, MediaWiki.org, and Meta itself. If your project doesn't appear in the list below, add it! For convenience, list them alphabetically by their English name, and add the project's native name after a slash.

And if your wiki doesn't have such a page at all, start one, and list it here!

Pages with Wikidata sitelinks

These pages are available on several wikis and are already linked using a sitelink:

• Language reference desk - a discussion page for questions and answers about grammar, transliteration, translation, etc.
• Lists of common misspellings
• Words to avoid
• Manual of style
• Article titles

Afrikaans Wikipedia

• w:af:Wikipedia:Styl - Basic manual of style
• w:af:Wikipedia:Terminologie - Terminology guidance, particularly for translation
• w:af:Wikipedia:Vertaalriglyne - Guidance for translated material for inclusion
• w:af:Cyrilliese_alfabet#Transliterasie - Transliteration of Cyrillic alphabet for Afrikaans

Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia / ويكيپيديا ب الداريجة

• ويكيپيديا:كناش لقواعد

Bosnian Wikipedia / Wikipedia na bosanskom jeziku

• w:bs:Wikipedia:Jezički standardi Wikipedije na bosanskom jeziku

Catalan Wikipedia / Viquipèdia en català

• w:ca:Viquipèdia:Llibre_d'estil#Llenguatge - language section in the manual of style
• w:ca:Viquipèdia:Secció d'introducció - lead section

Chinese Wikipedia / 中文维基百科 / 中文維基百科

• w:zh:Help:中文维基百科的繁简、地区词处理#编辑一般文章时的注意事项 - discourage users to a) replace all (or a large of) Simplified Chinese texts to Traditional, and vice versa; b) change Mainland China-styled words to Hong Kong/Taiwan words, and 2 vice versas, both cases are simply judged as vandalism.
• w:zh:Wikipedia:格式手冊/文字格式#斜体 - explain that why Italic words are mostly not allowed on zhwiki, the only two exceptions are Latin taxon names, and when contributing catalog-related articles, the western bibliographic names

Croatian Wikipedia / Wikipedija na hrvatskom jeziku

• w:hr:Wikipedija:Pravopis - spelling and grammar tips
• w:hr:Pravopis_hrvatskoga_jezika - spelling and grammar rules
• w:hr:Pravopis_hrvatskoga_jezika/Popis_pridjevskih_oblika_država - list of adjectives formed from country names
• w:hr:Standardni zapis klasičnih imena - standard for writing classical names
• w:hr:Wikipedija:Kafić/Jezična pitanja - branch of the Village pump targeted at linguistic questions

Czech Wikipedia / Česká Wikipedie

• w:cs:Wikipedie:Pravopis – policy on orthography
• w:cs:Wikipedie:Pravopisné rady – spelling and grammar tips
• w:cs:Wikipedie:Typografické rady – typographical tips
• Rules on transcription of foreign names:
  • Latin and Greek
  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • Hebrew
  • Korean
  • Persian
  • Tibetan
• w:cs:Wikipedie:Přechylování ženských příjmení – rules on formation and inflection of feminine surnames

English Wikinews

• n:en:Wikinews:Style guide

English Wikipedia

• w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style – main page, which includes summary sections about most subpages, such as:
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks
• w:en:Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional) – 19 region-specific pages
• w:en:Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings – 30 subpages (also w:en:Wikipedia:List of English contractions)
• w:en:Wikipedia:Writing better articles
• w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch
• w:en:Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – TL;DR

English Wiktionary

• wikt:en:Wiktionary:Style guide
  • wikt:en:Wiktionary:Quotations
  • wikt:en:Wiktionary:Etymology
  • wikt:en:Wiktionary:Pronunciation
• wikt:en:Category:Wiktionary language considerations – formatting entries for words in specific languages
• wikt:en:Help:Writing definitions

French Wikipedia / Wikipedia en français

• w:fr:Wikipédia:Conventions de style — general editing conventions
• w:fr:Wikipédia:Conventions typographiques — typographic conventions
• w:fr:Wikipédia:Style encyclopédique — register conventions

Hebrew Wikipedia / ויקיפדיה העברית

• w:he:ויקיפדיה:לשון - advice about avoiding common grammar mistakes
• w:he:ויקיפדיה:כתיב - a list of common spelling mistakes
• w:he:ויקיפדיה:מקף וקו מפריד - usage of hyphens and dashes
• w:he:ויקיפדיה:ניקוד - usage of niqqud (Hebrew vowel diacritics)
• w:he:ויקיפדיה:שגיאות תרגום נפוצות - common translation errors
• w:he:ויקיפדיה:בוט/בוט החלפות/אולם דיונים - discussion about correcting common spelling mistakes with a bot (current replacement list)
• w:he:קטגוריה:ויקיפדיה: כללי תעתיק - a category of transliteration guides from different languages

Indonesian Wikipedia / Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia

• w:id:Wikipedia:Daftar kosakata bahasa Indonesia yang sering salah dieja (shortcut: w:id:WP:BAHASA) - common spelling and grammar mistakes

Italian Wikipedia / Wikipedia in italiano

• w:it:Aiuto:Manuale di stile - manual of style
• w:it:Aiuto:Come tradurre una voce - about translating
• w:it:Wikipedia:Bot/Richieste/Errori comuni - common language mistakes
• w:it:Categoria:Aiuto lingue straniere - category of transliteration guides from different languages

mediawiki.org

• mw:Documentation/Style guide
• mw:Inclusive language

Meta-Wiki

• Writing clearly

Polish Wikipedia / Polskojęzyczna Wikipedia

• w:pl:Pomoc:Styl – poradnik dla autorów - style guidelines
• w:pl:Pomoc:Powszechne błędy językowe - common language mistakes
• w:pl:Pomoc:Skróty - abbreviations
• w:pl:Wikipedia:Tłumaczenia - about translating
• w:pl:Pomoc:Odmiana francuskich imion i nazwisk - french names

Russian Wikipedia / Русская Википедия

• w:ru:Википедия:Правила_и_указания#Язык и стиль (shortcut: w:ru:ВП:ЯЗЫК) - language section in the manual of style

Sundanese Wikipedia / Wikipédia basa Sunda

• w:su:Wikipedia:Pituduh nulis artikel anu leuwih hadé

Spanish Wikipedia / Wikipedia en español

• w:es:Wikipedia:Convenciones idiomáticas

translatewiki.net

translatewiki.net is not a Wikimedia project, but it is strongly related to the software used on Wikimedia sites, and many editors of Wikimedia edit translatewiki.net as well, so it's listed here.

translatewiki.net has general localisation guidelines for several languages, as well as particular guides for several languages linked from that page. If there is no guide for your language yet, please consider writing it!