Would you like to start an edition of Memory Alpha in your language? These basic steps are intended to provide an easy guide to setting up a localized wiki for Memory Alpha. There are four main stages to launching, that should take a total of between five and ten hours of work (depending on how fast a translator you are).
Step One
Translate the following pages:
- Main Page
- Memory Alpha:Introduction
- Help:Editing
- Help:New page
- Memory Alpha:FAQ
- Memory Alpha:Copyrights
These pages are the most essential in getting the basic framework of a new Memory Alpha wiki established.
Step Two
Complete a wiki request form at Wikia. A new database will be created within a week.
Step Three
Invite a few friends and online acquaintances (perhaps people you know from message boards or newsgroups) to help populate the initial pages of the new wiki. At this stage, the wiki is essentially functional, but it's mostly empty, and might be confusing to many visitors. You should now start translating other useful pages like these:
- Policies and Guidelines and associated pages
- Help:Contents and associated pages
- Manual of Style
- Lists of Trek episodes and movies
- Lists of Trek main characters
As with the original English edition, you may wish to copy some policies from your language's version Wikipedia — just be sure to provide the appropriate credit! The MediaWiki User's Guide is a good place to get the appropriate material outside of Memory Alpha itself.
Step Four
Add a link to the list of Memory Alpha language editions and read Internationalization to see what else needs to be done. Congratulations, your new edition is now ready for the public! Be sure to promote the new edition on appropriate message boards and mailing lists (but don't spam!).