Wiki translations

Post by **Mist** » March 16th, 2007, 1:39 am

I know wiki should be a free medium, but without offical guidelines how to refer to other language versions from the default (english) one, we might have a problem pretty soon. There are at least three translations ongoing now and fourth just started, so just imagine how will it look when we all start to reffer to our work as French team here. Some ideas or should we do as we please?

Post by **Viliam** » March 16th, 2007, 8:26 am

I guess there are not so many wiki pages in other languages, so we do not have to worry about it. I tried to translate some information in Slovak, but then I realized it is too much work, and information quickly becomes old. Unless there are at least 5 people willing to take care about the wiki, it is IMHO not worth doing the translation; or maybe just one page about the game (where you will have to update hyperlinks to download), and one for new translators.

I decided to prefix all Slovak pages with a language code; this will also help to put them together in the alphabetical list of wiki pages. So they look like this:
(sk) HlavnÃƒÂ¡ strÃƒÂ¡nka
(sk) NÃƒÂ¡vod
(sk) PrÃƒÂbehy
(sk) Preklad
and because such URLs are long to type and difficult to remember, I also created a short redirect to main page:
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/sk
So these are my "guidelines", and anyone is free to follow them.

With a lot of translated pages, I think this would be the best navigation: each page should have hyperlinks to its variants in other languages; each language should have a "site map" with links to all translated pages. But first we need those translated pages.

Xenopus · Post by **Xenopus** » March 20th, 2007, 8:28 am

Hi all,

I'm new here. I spent few hours on Wesnoth and I enjoyed to play this game ! So I need to learn more about rules now and I wonder... Does a french translation exist for the On-line manual ? http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Play

I was there but it is empty.

Post by **Viliam** » March 20th, 2007, 10:22 am

When you create a wiki account, you can click "Special pages" and "All pages". Then you will see the list of all pages... it is not so many of them, less then 100 together (in all languages, that is 90+% of them are English). By the name you can guess which ones are French.

Then you can for example create the page "fr" containing links to all French pages, and translate some more pages, if you want.

Xenopus · Post by **Xenopus** » March 20th, 2007, 2:12 pm

OK thanks. So currently there is no french translation for the manual...

Post by **Viliam** » March 20th, 2007, 7:27 pm

These are French pages in wiki:

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Advanced_Ta ... 8French%29
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/BuildingSce ... ch_Version
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/FrenchFPI
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/FrenchTranslation
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/FrenchTranslation/Units
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/NomsCommuns
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/NomsPropres

French manual comes as a part of game, and also can be viewed here:

http://svn.gna.org/svn/wesnoth/branches ... UAL.french
character encoding: UTF-8

If you want something more... you can volunteer to do it!

Post by **zookeeper** » March 20th, 2007, 7:35 pm

AFAIK at least the page names should be named like this:

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Play <- the base english version
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/FR:Play <- the french version
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/PL:Play <- the polish version

...using the language codes in the front to denote the language. Using this should make things cleaner in the long run, I think. At least this was the method that was used for the polish translations of some pages, IIRC.

Xenopus · Post by **Xenopus** » March 22nd, 2007, 8:09 am

Thanks for the links. Well, I would like to participate but I have currently not enough time

First of all, I'll try to diffuse Wesnoth to my friends and family.