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== Taking material from Wikipedia in other languages ==

Hi. At present my main contribution to Wikipedia is adding entries describing New Zealand, Japanese, and other musicians with whom I am aquainted. I had a look at the Japanese Wikipedia pages for some of the artists I have edited entries for, and there is some information over there that I hadn't put into my own entries.

Since the Japanese Wikipedia is also a Wikipedia, surely there should be no copyright issue in my taking information from the Japanese entries, and including it in my English (language) entries.

no?

[[User:Ross-c|Ross-c]] 20:11, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

:No problems there.  Feel free to transwiki.  Also, make sure that you include transwiki links at the bottom of the page (for example, if you're on the english article for [[Apple]], you'll want to put <nowiki>[[es:Manzana]]</nowiki> at the bottom of the page to indicate the presence of a foreign language article on another wiki. -- [[User:DropDeadGorgias|DropDeadGorgias]] [[User_talk:DropDeadGorgias|(talk)]] 20:49, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

::Text is no problem. With images on other wikipedias you have to keep an eye out for the copyright status, but I usually copy them too, and add a transwiki link. -- [[User:Chris 73|Chris 73]] | [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 04:35, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

:Thanks, but I must admit that I don't now how to add a transwiki link when the titles of the pages on the japanese site are not in the roman alphabet. [[User:158.152.71.202|158.152.71.202]] 20:15, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

::I ''believe'' that when you submit unicode characters in wikipedia's edit box, they are converted to the escaped ASCII characters, but i'm not sure.  I think that you can cut and paste the titles from the Japanese wikipedia directly into the edit box. - [[User:DropDeadGorgias|DropDeadGorgias]] [[User_talk:DropDeadGorgias|(talk)]] 20:57, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)


:::Hmmm.... I'll give this a go. I haven't used the 'sandbox' before, so might see if I can experiment with this in the sandbox. [[User:Ross-c|Ross-c]] 09:53, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)