Template:Help:How translation works

Fallback chains

The custom translation extension automatically identifies the user's language in one of the following ways.

• The user's preferences page (if they have a wiki account).
• From the user clicking on the language selector at the top of the page.
• By prefixing LANGCODE subdomain to a page's URL, for example: http://de.ashesofcreation.wiki/Fréttinga

Once a language is known, the extension will automatically locate and apply the correct translations for that language.

• If translated templates, titles or headings don't exist for that language, they will fall back to a compatible language.
• If the fallback language can't be found, the extension will default to English, which is the base language of the wiki.

Language selection happens at the lowest level. For example: If every template exists for the user's language except one, then only that missing template will fall back.