Help:Howto/Create new language
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- Select language code. You should check it in Wikipedia or somewhere else.
- NB: add MediaWiki:Lang/lng page with the language code. For example, if your language has "zz" code, you are to create MediaWiki:Lang/zz with zz as contents.
- Add this code into Template:Languages as it is done for existing languages.
- Update all templates in i18n Category by adding corresponding strings for your language.
- Update Localization/* templates. Be careful when you change Localization/PluginCard template, you have to select correct term for category for articles in your language.
- Add translated strings to all disambiged articles.
Naming Collisions
It is possible that two different languages has pages with the same name. As example Slovakian and Czech languages use a word "Novinky" as "News". To resolve collision you need to make existed page disambiged and create separate pages for each language.
Example: Page Novinky is disambig page and it links to pages Novinky (Český) and Novinky (Slovenčina).