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Call for mainline portraits and story art

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by nemaara » April 18th, 2024, 11:03 pm » in Art Contributions
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Several of our mainline campaigns are in the works for upgrades at the moment, which includes adding characters and enhancing existing scenarios. We are looking for more artwork to supplement these upgrades, including the following:

5 portraits
Female Captain (Mari)
Asheviere - 4 variations...
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Greetings!

We are happy to announce that Wesnoth is now able to accept donations on Liberapay . While Wesnoth does rely on the work of dedicated volunteers, no project can function completely cost-free. Revenue from the Apple App Store and from donations goes towards maintaining our servers,...
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Plural forms for your language

Last post by GunChleoc « October 11th, 2016, 11:55 am
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by vonHalenbach » January 16th, 2008, 2:16 pm

Hello translators!

I have found a list of Plural-forms for many languages, which might get useful for you.

Here in Battle for Wesnoth those lines of plural-forms in the po-files seem correct for the languages we currently have. If your language is still not there, please contact the maintainer of...

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Last post by GunChleoc
October 11th, 2016, 11:55 am
Help with some abbreviation

Last post by michalkuc « May 19th, 2016, 3:54 pm
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by Viliam » August 9th, 2005, 1:16 pm

I need some explanation/context to these:

Act. - is this an abbreviation of active , or what...?
%b %d %y , %H:%M , %A, %H:%M , %b %d - is this in Klingonese, or what :lol:
$name|bury,$name|ham,$name|ton ,... - i understand the point, but would welcome more details: which strings are for what...

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Last post by michalkuc
May 19th, 2016, 3:54 pm
Call for localized images

Last post by GunChleoc « December 16th, 2013, 11:54 am
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by caslav.ilic » August 30th, 2009, 6:47 pm

Some time ago Wesnoth's code was patched to enable use of localized images, for any image for which this is needed by target language. Now would be good time to start adding some localized images, since 1.8 release is getting nearer.

Here are the instructions on making and testing localized...

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December 16th, 2013, 11:54 am
Reporting spelling mistakes in the English (US) text

Last post by Development Team « October 14th, 2010, 2:32 pm

by Development Team » October 14th, 2010, 2:32 pm

There’s a dedicated page in the wiki that you can edit to report spelling mistakes in the game’s original English strings. The main reason to have this list is to be able to keep track of mistakes that need to be fixed after a string freeze is over. Naturally, grammar mistakes also belong to this...

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October 14th, 2010, 2:32 pm
Translation tool, if you prefer a non-English source

Last post by Dugucloud « April 9th, 2010, 1:55 pm
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by Viliam » December 14th, 2005, 9:59 pm

Have you found someone willing to translate Wesnoth to a language X (or willing to help you translating to your language), but then you found that the person does not speak English ? This is no longer a problem!

My solution is a Perl script that will enrich your PO file with translations to other...

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April 9th, 2010, 1:55 pm
Traduction française ?

Last post by demario « January 31st, 2026, 10:40 am
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by doudou84 » September 11th, 2025, 1:16 pm
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Bonjour, pouvez-vous traduire des campagnes en français ? Ça serai super, merci d’avance
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Last post by demario
January 31st, 2026, 10:40 am
Russian translation

Last post by marusyayo « October 29th, 2025, 12:33 pm
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by akaGM » March 17th, 2004, 8:06 pm
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I started Russian translation, but as far as I now there is'not any Russian charset in the system font vera.ttf...
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Last post by marusyayo
October 29th, 2025, 12:33 pm
Esperanto translation / Esperanta traduko

Last post by breversa « July 9th, 2025, 9:48 am
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by Viliam » February 13th, 2006, 1:32 pm
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This is a topic to discuss translation into Esperanto .

Jen la diskuto pri esperantigo de Wesnoth. Se vi volas helpi, bonvolu aligxi!

Saluton!

Cxi-momente, tiuj cxi dosieroj estas tradukataj (aux tradukitaj)
wesnoth
wesnoth-lib
wesnoth-editor
wesnoth-httt

Se vi volas helpi, bonvolu skribi...
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Last post by breversa
July 9th, 2025, 9:48 am
Ancient Greek

Last post by hermestrismi « July 6th, 2025, 4:43 pm
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by hermestrismi » June 30th, 2025, 10:19 am

Is someone interested in translating some mainline campaigns to Ancient Greek (classical era)?
I began to learn it so I am not perfect on it.

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Last post by hermestrismi
July 6th, 2025, 4:43 pm
Arabic translation

Last post by hermestrismi « July 6th, 2025, 4:42 pm
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by hermestrismi » June 18th, 2022, 4:39 pm
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The main purpose of this thread is to discuss the arabic translation of Wesnoth.
Until now, I added only the translation of the wesnoth-editor while I am in the middle of the translation of wesnoth-anl and wesnoth-anl
Notes:
- the units names will be translated as they are in the english version...
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Last post by hermestrismi
July 6th, 2025, 4:42 pm
po-translator

Last post by hermestrismi « June 30th, 2025, 8:24 pm
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by hermestrismi » June 20th, 2025, 11:10 am

I know how hard is it to translate a long campaign line by line so I created this po manager to make it possible to extract all msgids, copy them into a .txt file, translate them with any translator then upload them back to po file.
note that this not meant to replace poEditor and it is not fully...

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Last post by hermestrismi
June 30th, 2025, 8:24 pm
Polish translation (polskie tlumaczenie)

Last post by Draconager « June 9th, 2025, 11:03 pm
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by pstradomski » November 23rd, 2004, 1:46 pm
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As this topic deals with polish translation, it is in polish.

Witajcie.

Zacząłem zajmować się polskim tłumaczeniem Battle for Wesnoth.
Zamierzam uporządkować nieco nazewnictwo jednostek.
Pierwsze propozycje zmian to

Wraith -> UpiÃƒÂ³r (było : zjawa)
Ghost -> Duch (było : upiÃƒÂ³r)

Troll (i...
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Last post by Draconager
June 9th, 2025, 11:03 pm
Italian Traslation

Last post by Yomar « December 6th, 2024, 11:13 am
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by DarkAmex » November 12th, 2004, 12:45 am
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:arrow: Avviso
In Questo Subject ÃƒÂ¨ possibile discutere di tutto quello che riguarda la traduzione di Wesnoth in italiano. Qualunque consiglio, idea, suggerimento, aiuto ÃƒÂ¨ ben accetto!
:D
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Last post by Yomar
December 6th, 2024, 11:13 am
Croatian translations

Last post by egallager « November 26th, 2024, 10:18 pm
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by MaloSmrdim » November 26th, 2024, 10:07 am

I am a Croatian who speaks and writes fluently in English . I grew up with this game and I still play it after almost 20 Years . I am very glad to see the game still growing and I would like to help it grow . Now I am not good with codes but I am very good with English. So if anyone from the...

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Last post by egallager
November 26th, 2024, 10:18 pm
po files parsing

Last post by hermestrismi « November 16th, 2024, 4:04 pm
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by hermestrismi » October 31st, 2024, 1:24 pm

A translation question.
I want to begin to work for translating Wesnoth-manual and -manpages and there is a lot of confusing codes (almost every sentences is a test for me) . So, there a way to parse a .po file directly into the game to know if there is a translation incompatibility?

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Last post by hermestrismi
November 16th, 2024, 4:04 pm
Translators wanted for my add-ons

Last post by egallager « October 17th, 2024, 5:36 am
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by egallager » July 6th, 2021, 11:28 am
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Hi there, I've tried asking for translation help in the Scenario & Campaign Development forum, but I haven't gotten any takers there yet, so I figured I'd try crossposting here as well (hopefully that's okay). Here's my list of things I'd like help with:

Updated translations for ANO ; see this...
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Last post by egallager
October 17th, 2024, 5:36 am
Ukrainian translation

Last post by Lexa04 « July 18th, 2024, 6:12 pm
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by robson » February 7th, 2012, 8:36 pm
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Is someone, who heard about this?
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Last post by Lexa04
July 18th, 2024, 6:12 pm
Poema «El cetro de fuego» / "The Sceptre of Fire" poem

Last post by hermestrismi « December 27th, 2023, 10:34 pm
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by Purcell » October 17th, 2023, 9:52 pm

ENGLISH VERSION BELOW

Buenos días!

He producido una traducción del siguiente poema. Aparece en la sección de poesía de la página web así como en la campaña The Sceptre of Fire.

Sin embargo, no sabía yo que la traducción que aparece en la siguiente página está desactualizada , como he...

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Last post by hermestrismi
December 27th, 2023, 10:34 pm
Problems with saurian skirmisher line

Last post by Septim « September 12th, 2023, 5:40 pm
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by holypaladin » July 15th, 2023, 11:53 am

Saurian skirmishers are males but in the newest versions (at least in polish translations) are considered as females, why?

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Last post by Septim
September 12th, 2023, 5:40 pm
Machine translation in wesnoth using gplv3 apertium software

Last post by Michal- « June 17th, 2023, 5:30 am
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by demario » June 4th, 2023, 12:55 pm

I want to introduce another set of tools that can provide alternative Machine Translation (MT) services based on apertium .

First this is a gplv3 tool which can be installed locally and for which you're getting all the code. As a practical example, you are getting all the rules and dictionaries...

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Last post by Michal-
June 17th, 2023, 5:30 am
Questions regarding the french translation of "Invasion from the Unknown"

Last post by gnombat « May 30th, 2023, 12:58 pm
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by Markowoko » May 24th, 2023, 8:27 pm

Hello,

About... a month or so now I started working on french translations for the UMC Project Ethea (Invasion from the Unknown, After the Storm and their shared Naia library). As a bit of history, AtS and Naia, though they were largely imperfect, already had working french translations when I...

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May 30th, 2023, 12:58 pm
Traducción al español

Last post by Toranks « May 23rd, 2023, 5:04 pm
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by kilder » January 28th, 2004, 9:58 pm
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This is a thread posted for those able to help with the spanish translation. if you can think of anything that may help us, please post it, any help will be greatly apreciated
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He empezado con la traduccion de la parte que faltaba, y hay...
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Last post by Toranks
May 23rd, 2023, 5:04 pm
Automatic lexical correction for races (saurians, dwarves...)

Last post by hermestrismi « April 21st, 2023, 2:19 pm
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by hermestrismi » April 21st, 2023, 2:10 am

Is there a way (gui.py or other) to correct the tongue of different races ? I mean like 'sss' to saurians' sentences...

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Last post by hermestrismi
April 21st, 2023, 2:19 pm
Translators wanted to work on campaigns "Swamplings" and "Pax Romana"

Last post by demario « April 17th, 2023, 2:43 am
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by demario » April 5th, 2023, 8:53 am

Hi there, I need help to translate the stock campaign Swamplings (stock 1.12) .

Stock campaigns are abandoned materials made available on the current add-on server in the same state as they are found.

How would it be useful to translate an abandoned campaign , would one ask?
Well, for different...

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Last post by demario
April 17th, 2023, 2:43 am
[German] v1.16 Tippfehler Südwacht: In Bedrängnis

Last post by PapaAlpaka « March 8th, 2023, 11:40 pm

by PapaAlpaka » March 8th, 2023, 11:40 pm

Im Abschlussdialog sagt Ethiliel Ich werde den Menschen und seine Mannen zu Mebrin führen - er kann entschieden...

Dort sollte entscheiden stehen.

Es ist kurz vor 1 am morgen, Wiki-Konten können derzeit nur durch die Administratoren persönlich erstellt werden und ich habe absolut keine Ahnung...

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Last post by PapaAlpaka
March 8th, 2023, 11:40 pm
Translation for custom damage types not showing up

Last post by Atreides « February 24th, 2023, 12:58 am
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by Atreides » February 22nd, 2023, 5:13 am

So I have some custom damage types and I translated them. They are translated when you view a unit in help but when you hover over the HP in the unit box it shows you all the resistances. Default ones are translated but custom ones don't use their translation as they do in help.

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Last post by Atreides
February 24th, 2023, 12:58 am
Eine Geschichte zweier Brüder - Vertonung und Sprachkunst

Last post by Heindal « February 15th, 2023, 5:44 pm
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by Heindal » March 8th, 2019, 9:55 pm
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Please note: this thread is about finding voice-artist for the German version of the campaign A Tale of Two Brothers . In case your spoken German is good enough, you might participate as well, just post here which role you want to take.

Der eine oder andere hatte es vielleicht mitbekommen. Wir...
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February 15th, 2023, 5:44 pm
Spaces in textdomain

Last post by Atreides « January 13th, 2023, 2:56 am
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by Atreides » January 12th, 2023, 2:44 am

I was wondering if having spaces like:

causes problems?

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January 13th, 2023, 2:56 am
How to enable Latin translation?

Last post by Tarcil « December 26th, 2022, 4:06 pm
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by Tarcil » December 6th, 2022, 12:14 pm

How I can I enable the Latin translationb on Wesnoth 1.16.5? I looked into the languages, but I didn´t found an option to click on to switch on Latin. I would be glad if someone could help me.

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December 26th, 2022, 4:06 pm
gettext and define

Last post by chee « December 21st, 2022, 1:04 pm
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by Atanase » June 18th, 2019, 9:25 am

Hello,

I don't know if I am in the good subject. If not, thank you to move this post.

I am trying to translate a user's campaign. I use PoEdit and wmlxgettext, like everybody, to prepare my .pot file. But.......
Many unit's definitions use many #define and, if the opening tag is in the unit's...

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December 21st, 2022, 1:04 pm

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