Scanlation

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

Scanlation (also scanslation) is the fan-made scanning, translation, and editing of comics from one language into another. Scanlation is done as an amateur work performed by groups and is nearly always done without express permission from the copyright holder.

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