What languages do you know?
I've been thinking of adding language userboxes for profile pages, like some other wikis have.
It might be useful if anyone could help out interlinking to the other language mirror wikis for Game of Thrones; they're linked at the bottom of our front page, and have little link tags at the bottom of some but not all articles. That is, if you know enough to at least navigate around another language wiki, see what their page for "Free Cities" is but that it isn't linked to the English version, nor does our Free Cities article have a link to theirs, and add them in).
(You can skip this following bit to answer)
Around Christmas 2016, there are alternate language mirrors in the top dozen or so languages found on the internet: English, German, Dutch; Spanish, Portugese, Italian, French; Russian, Polish; Chinese, Japanese. Each of these has an "active" userbase, regularly updated. Some of them are combined with book content and are thus drastically larger (Spanish and Dutch) while others are specifically for the TV series like us (German and Russian). Obviously the ones for smaller numbers of speakers tend to just combine book and TV content on the same page.
Quality and quantity of content is of course variable. "Major" languages with relatively large numbers of internet users for which we have no wiki mirrors are Korean, Malay, Arabic, Persian (someone only just started a Turkish one as well).
These are the languages most important to us - multi-national languages used by many people over a wide area (like the six United Nations languages and two Olympic ones).
There are a few other local languages which are great if you're willing to put the effort into making them, but you have to recognize that there will be a smaller userbase. For example, Wookieepedia and Memory Alpha have versions in Serbian or Catalan. There physically aren't that many speakers of those languages in the world compared to Dutch or Russian. That is, the fact that I myself know "Classical Latin" doesn't really help much in terms of communication.
Now even with our Game of Thornes mirrors, we do have some in "local" languages which are actually well maintained by small but dedicated userbases: case in point, only one or two users set out to make a Lithuanian mirror...but they're very dedicated and making surprisingly good translation speed setting up their site - only 77 articles as of this writing, but considering that basically half a dozen people are setting up the entire thing, that's quite respectable. We also have fairly decently sized mirrors in Polish and Ukrainian - which do have a decent sized number of speakers on the internet.
In contrast we don't really need Indian subcontinent languages like Hindi or local Yoruba West African languages as much, because those are regions in which English is a pretty prominent secondary language. Ultimately, someone who knows fluent Spanish can help us out a lot more than if you know Hindi....unless you're willing to put in the hours upon hours of building a Hindi version of the wiki on your own :) -- the fact that I know Latin means nothing because there isn't any Latin mirror of the wiki to link to in the first place. Similarly...it's cool if you know the Welsh language, but we don't have a Welsh mirror of the wiki to link to, and few people who speak Welsh don't also know English.
There's also a few already which at the moment at least are "languages someone bothered to click the 'create' button for, let's see where this goes": Finnish, Hungarian, Hebrew. Nothing really there yet.
Very recently someone created a Swedish wiki, which is good, picking up a little steam, as well as a Danish one - just starting out, we'll see what they turn into in a year. Oddly, no Norwegian one - I've heard Swedish is close enough? Dunno. At any rate if you look at Wikipedia's page of "Languages used on the Internet" those rank kind of low, despite their high industrialization rate; low population overall; Dutch has 1.5% of global internet users, Swedish only 0.5%.
Portugese is actually disproportionately important and it would be great if we have anyone who knows it; it turns out that Brazil officially pirates digital downloads of Game of Thrones more than any other country in the world by a wide margin -- so it must be fairly popular there. They've got a decent sized and growing wiki with an active community so any help you can give would yield some good returns.
Anyway, as of Christmas 2016, here's how we stand, with major languages arranged loosely by family/geography, and how many articles each of them currently has to give you an idea of their size:
- English - 3,500
- German - 1,483 (very active)
- Dutch - 5,000 (combination book and TV wiki)
- Spanish - 6,546 (combination book and TV wiki)
- Portugese 1,124
- Italian - 2,341
- French - 766
- Russian - 1,781 (very active)
- Polish - 907
- Ukrainian - 267
- Lithuanian - 77
- Swedish -193
- Danish -24
- Norwegian - none
"Asian languages" need help, given how many speakers are online relative to how few English-speakers know it (they teach French in school here, not Chinese, and it doesn't have overlap the way Dutch and German sort of do). And just a large number online overall.
- Chinese - 5,298
- Japanese - 211 (just starting out, need help)
- Korean - none
Plus there's also none for Malay or Thai.
Then you've got your more localized stuff: Finish, Hungarian (someone bothered to click "create" for those), Estonian; also Czech or Slovak (Czech mirrors for like Star Trek and Star Wars wikis are reasonably active, equal odds of seeing that or Ukrainian but we don't have one); then even more localized Balkan languages (Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, etc.) or sub-regional languages (Welsh, Catalan, etc.) Someone also hit "create" on a Hebrew one but it never developed (and we do get IP addresses from Israel now and again editing stuff in the English version).
Someone recently created a Turkish one and it has 132 articles. Despite its global spread and number of people online speaking it, there is no Arabic one.
...by the way there actually are "wikis" for the novels in Arabic, Thai, etc., but they're not part of the "Fandom - Wikia" network, so they won't interlink.
Still a big language barrier even with the Russian wiki though...And we can kind of get through with Google Translate but it's not the same.