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+Experience shows that translations work best when done by teams. Not only
+can the workload be shared, but there is also the chance to review the
+translation. So if possible try to find more people to help out with
+translating.
+
+Furthermore, if you take over an unmaintained translation, bring the existing
+parts up-to-date before translating new ones. Outdated information is worse
+than missing information and for the XML documentation missing parts are
+automatically replaced by the English master files.
+
Translations of MPlayer documentation consist of 3 parts in descending
order of importance: