Translation of the week/Translation candidates
1) short, 2) easy to translate, 3) lead to potential translations of other topics, 4) of some importance in an encyclopedia.
- include pronunciations for terms left untranslated, such as proper names and foreign terms, for the sake of languages that will want to transliterate them.
- copy all relevant graphics to Commons and give the link to the resources;
You may remove a candidate from the list, if it has
- more opposing votes than supporting ones for two weeks, or
- an equal number of opposing votes and supporting votes for one month, or
- the number of oppose votes is 1/3 or more of that of total votes for two months, or
- no positive votes other than the nominator's for two weeks.
Two-thirds majority in favour (group 1)
- (Except those who have only the vote of nomination, see group 5).
- Sorted first by the net support (number of support votes minus number of oppose votes), second those with less negative votes and thirdly in order of nomination.
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(es:Puré de papas instantáneo) (fr:Purée instantanée)
(Net support = 2; Against = 25%) (Group 1)
Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk or both, producing an approximation of mashed potatoes. They are available in many different flavors.
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- Only 5 languages for this popular convenience food --Holapaco77 (talk) 21:08, 17 September 2026 (UTC)
- --PapaYoung89 (talk) 21:17, 17 September 2026 (UTC)
- ChipsBaMast (talk) 11:43, 27 September 2026 (UTC)
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- Quite a lot of information needing citations. --Brunnaiz (talk) 12:41, 5 October 2026 (UTC)
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(Net support = 1; Against = 33.333%) (Group 2) (No votes from 2 months and 12 days) (→ It is removable)
The Wrede passage (Finnish: Wreden pasaasi; also known as the "Old merchant alley", Finnish: Vanha kauppakuja, or the "Grandma tunnel", Finnish: Mummotunneli) is an entity formed by two stone buildings in Kluuvi, Helsinki, Finland. The name refers also to the merchant alley stretching throughout the block. The passage is formed by the Wrede house in the corner between Pohjoisesplanadi and Mikonkatu (Pohjoisesplanadi 35) and the Central house in the corner between Aleksanterinkatu and Mikonkatu (Aleksanterinkatu 46). The building entity represents Renaissance Revival architecture and was designed and partly commissioned by architect Karl August Wrede, and built in 1888 and 1892.
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Anolis aquaticus, commonly known as the water anole, is a semi-aquatic species of anole, a lizard in the family Dactyloidae, native to southwestern Costa Rica and far southwestern Panama.
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National Day of Bhutan (Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དུས་ཆེན་; Wylie: rgyal yongs dus chen) known as Gyalyong Düchen is a major national event celebrated annually on 17 December in the Kingdom of Bhutan
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- --Shizhao (talk) 02:20, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- Some citation overkill, but other than that, relevant and manageable for translation. --Brunnaiz (talk) 17:14, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- ChipsBaMast (talk) 12:24, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
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(fr:Occupation de l'église Saint-Nizier par les prostituées lyonnaises) (ru:Оккупация церкви Сен-Низье)
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The occupation of Saint-Nizier Church by Lyon prostitutes was the eight-day occupation of Saint-Nizier Church (June 2–10, 1975) in Lyon, France by more than one hundred prostitutes to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions. The occupation ended on June 10, 1975, when the women were removed by the police. The sex workers gathered and protested for two key rights: attaining greater health benefits and an end to police harassment. Sympathetic occupations of churches by sex workers followed in Paris, Marseille, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne and Montpellier.
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Fruit bat soup is a traditional dish from Palauan cuisine, considered one of their national gastronomical delicacies. Its main ingredient is Pelew flying fox meat, a vulnerable species from said country.
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Cineuropa is an online information portal dedicated to the promotion of European cinema. It publishes daily news, reviews, interviews, and industry reports and maintains a database of information. It is available in four languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish. It is co-funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union. El País described Cineuropa as "an online media outlet that is very popular in the industry."
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- Could be translated into several other non-European languages. --Brunnaiz (talk) 17:31, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- --Shizhao (talk) 02:21, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
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The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a space-based system developed by the University of Michigan and Southwest Research Institute with the aim of improving hurricane forecasting by better understanding the interactions between the sea and the air near the core of a storm.
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Jalapeño poppers, or jalapeño bites, are jalapeño peppers that have been hollowed out, stuffed with a mixture of cheese, spices, and sometimes ground meat, and breaded and deep-fried or wrapped with bacon and baked. They are a common dish on appetizer menus in chain restaurants in the United States.
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- Article has existed since 2005, but not in many languages. --Sahaib (talk) 13:44, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
- --Shizhao (talk) 02:44, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
- --Brunnaiz (talk) 12:42, 5 October 2026 (UTC)
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(Net support = 1; Against = 0%) (Group 5) (No votes from 14 days)
Fort de Giromagny, also known as Fort Dorsner, was built near Belfort in northeastern France between 1875 and 1879. The fort forms the southern end of the defensive curtain of the Haute Moselle Region, abutting the fortified region of Belfort, which lies to its south. The Haute Moselle defenses form a link between the fortified encampments of Épinal and Belfort. The fort overlooks the main roads to the northeast of Belfort, which form a crossroads at Giromagny.
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Between 2/3 and 50% support (group 2)
- Sorted first by the net support (number of support votes minus number of oppose votes) and second in order of nomination.
- If a candidate has a number of oppose votes that is 1/3 or more of its total votes for two months, it will be removed from the list (rule 3).
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Equal oppose and support, and a minimum of 2 positive votes (group 3)
- Sorted first by the net support and second in order of nomination.
- If a candidate has an equal number of opposing votes and supporting votes for one month, it will be removed from the list (rule 2).
- (With a minimum of 2 positive votes, of course. Candidates with 1-1 stay in group 5, to prevent unjust removals.)
Less than 50% support (group 4)
- Sorted first by the net support (number of support votes minus number of oppose votes) and second in order of nomination.
- If a candidate has more opposing votes than supporting ones for two weeks, it will be removed from the list (rule 1).
- Currently, there are no candidates in this situation.
New candidates (group 5)
- With only 1 positive vote. (Regardless of whether they receive a negative vote or more.)
- Sorted first by the net support and second in order of nomination.
- If a candidate has no vote after two weeks, it will be removed from the list (rule 4).
(Net support = 1; Against = 0%) (Group 5) (No votes from 1 month and 12 days) (→ It is removable)
The January 2018 North American blizzard caused widespread severe disruption and blizzard conditions across much of the East Coasts of the United States and Canada in early January 2018. The storm dropped up to 2 feet (24 in; 61 cm) of snow in the Mid-Atlantic states, New England, and Atlantic Canada, while areas as far south as southern Georgia and far northern Florida had brief wintry precipitation, with 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) of snow measured officially in Tallahassee, Florida. The storm originated on January 3 as an area of low pressure off the coast of the Southeast. Moving swiftly to the northeast, the storm explosively deepened while moving parallel to the Eastern Seaboard, causing significant snowfall accumulations. The storm received various unofficial names, such as Winter Storm Grayson, Blizzard of 2018 and Storm Brody. The storm was also dubbed a "historic bomb cyclone".
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(Net support = 1; Against = 0%) (Group 5) (No votes from 1 month and 12 days) (→ It is removable)
The 701 series (701系, 701-kei) is an AC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on local services by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), Aoimori Railway, and Iwate Galaxy Railway (IGR) in Japan. The design is derived from the 209 series commuter EMU, and was intended to replace locomotive-hauled trains formed of JNR 50 series [ja] coaches in the north of Japan
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Franz Xaver Zettler (1841-1916) was a German stained glass artist.
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Giovanni Episcopo è un romanzo di Gabriele D'Annunzio, pubblicato nel 1892. Fu il secondo romanzo in prosa del poeta abruzzese.
Pubblicato in tre puntate nella Nuova Antologia tra febbraio e marzo 1891 con il pre-titolo Dramatis personae, insieme a L'Innocente, è considerato uno dei romanzi sperimentali di D'Annunzio, deciso a prendere le distanze dal naturalismo. Fortemente ispirato ai romanzi e racconti russi ottocenteschi quali La mite di Fëdor Dostoevskij, il libro si presenta come una lunga confessione del protagonista, che, sotto forma di monologo indirizzato a un interlocutore ignoto, spiega convulsamente e in modo nevrotico la storia della sua vita e del crimine da lui commesso.
Considerato il titolo meno riuscito dell'intera produzione letteraria dannunziana sia dalla critica (il libro venne severamente recensito anche da Luigi Capuana) che dallo stesso autore, viene comunque tenuto in considerazione dagli esperti per seguire «lo sviluppo della narrativa dannunziana negli anni cruciali che dal Piacere conducono al Trionfo della morte».
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- Probably the worst book of one of the most famous italian poets (by his words!). Only in two languages, good article in Italian --PapaYoung89 (talk) 10:02, 10 September 2026 (UTC)
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In deonomastica, l'appellativizzazione (chiamato anche deproprializzazione) è il processo linguistico grammaticale che trasforma nel tempo un nome proprio in un nome comune, ricollegandosi al nome proprio ma espandendone il significato. Questo passaggio è di solito graduale e termina con la lessicalizzazione totale di una voce, comparendo anche sui dizionari. Spesso si tratta di parole le cui basi propriali sono ormai dimenticate e poco importanti nell’uso naturale della lingua. Quasi sempre, un appellativizzazione si ottiene per mezzo dell'antonomasia.
Nella lingua italiana, normalmente, una parola appellativizzata e il nome proprio da cui deriva si distinguono nello scritto e nel parlato dalla presenza di un articolo a precedere il nome comune e dalla possibilità di usare il plurale.[1]
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- Only available in italian, but it is an important grammatical process in every language --PapaYoung89 (talk) 09:47, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
- Really interesting. --Brunnaiz (talk) 12:43, 5 October 2026 (UTC)
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Mekhala (Mekhalā or Mahakhala – "Elder Mischievous Girl", "The Elder Severed-Headed Sister") and Kanakhala (Kankhala, Kanakhalā – "Younger Mischievous Girl", "The Younger Severed-Headed Sister") are two sisters who figure in the eighty-four mahasiddhas ("great adept") of Vajrayana Buddhism. Both are described as the disciples of another mahasiddha, Kanhapa (Krishnacharya). They are said to have severed their heads, offered them to their guru, and danced headless. Their legend is closely associated with the Buddhist severed-headed goddess Chinnamunda.
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(Net support = 1; Against = 0%) (Group 5) (No votes from 14 days)
The North Complex Fire was a massive wildfire complex that burned in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California in the counties of Plumas and Butte. Twenty-one fires were started by lightning on August 17, 2020; by September 5, all the individual fires had been put out with the exception of the Claremont and Bear Fires, which merged on that date, and the Sheep Fire, which was then designated a separate incident. On September 8, strong winds caused the Bear/Claremont Fire to explode in size, rapidly spreading to the southwest. On September 8, 2020, the towns of Berry Creek and Feather Falls were immediately evacuated at 3:15 p.m. PDT with no prior warning. By September 9, 2020, the towns of Berry Creek and Feather Falls had been leveled, with few homes left standing. The fire threatened the city of Oroville, before its westward spread was stopped. The fire killed 16 people and injured more than 100. The complex burned an estimated 318,935 acres (129,068 ha), and was 100% contained on December 3. The fire was managed by the U.S. Forest Service in conjunction with Cal Fire, with the primary incident base in Quincy. The North Complex Fire is the eighth-largest in California's history, and was the deadliest fire in the 2020 California wildfire season.
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(de:Adelbert Theodor Wangemann)
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Adelbert Theodor Edward Wangemann (February 13, 1855 – June 1906), was a German recording engineer. In 1888, he began working for Thomas Edison as an assistant at his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1889, Edison sent Wangemann to keep the phonograph at the 1889 Paris Expo in good working condition. The trip was extended and Wangemann made numerous early sound recordings on wax cylinders, some of which were lost for more than 100 years. Found in 1957, but not revealed until 2012, they include the only known recording of Otto von Bismarck.
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Allhallowtide is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Hallows' Eve (Halloween), All Hallows' Day (All Saints' Day) and All Souls' Day, as well as the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (observed on the first Sunday of November) and Remembrance Sunday (observed on the second Sunday in November) in some traditions. The period begins on 31 October annually. Allhallowtide is a "time to remember the dead, including martyrs, saints, and all faithful departed Christians." The present date of Hallowmas (All Saints' Day) and thus also of its vigil (Hallowe'en) was established for Rome perhaps by Pope Gregory III (731–741) and was made of obligation throughout the Frankish Empire by Louis the Pious in 835. Elsewhere, other dates were observed even later, with the date in Ireland being 20 April. In the early 11th century, the modern date of All Souls' Day was popularized, after Abbot Odilo established it as a day for the monks of Cluny and associated monasteries to pray for the dead.
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Pendatang is a 2023 Malaysian dystopian drama thriller film directed by Ng Ken Kin and written by Lim Boon Siang. Produced by Kuman Pictures in association with Tapir Films, Pendatang follows a Cantonese–speaking Chinese family forced to relocate to a rural kampong home, shortly after Malaysia implemented the fictional Segregation Act, where racial segregation between the ethnic groups of the country became strictly enforced.
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Boobquake was a series of worldwide rallies which took place on April 26, 2010, and served to protest news reports of controversial beliefs blaming women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes. It was inspired by blogger Jey McCreight. The Boobquake rallies served to protest news reports of controversial beliefs espoused by Hujjat al-Islam Kazem Seddiqi, an Islamic religious authority in Iran. Seddiqi blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes.
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Eviction resistance is a strategy used by tenants, sometimes through tenants unions, in order to prevent an eviction from being successful. It can involve different tactics – from disrupting legal proceedings, to publicly pressuring the landlord or authorities to drop the eviction, to physically blocking the removal of tenants and their possessions from the premises.
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- Specially relevant nowadays given Europe's unrest regarding housing. --Brunnaiz (talk) 19:07, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
- --Shizhao (talk) 02:08, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
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