TranslatorsGuide - Revision history

Earl Khonrad: /* A personal opinion about translation priorities */ updated the date and the strings count

2020-09-15T23:35:15Z

‎A personal opinion about translation priorities: updated the date and the strings count

GunChleoc: /* General questions about translations */ Added Name generators section

2017-01-31T12:26:09Z

‎General questions about translations: Added Name generators section

Espreon: /* A personal opinion about translation priorities */

2013-11-10T16:45:02Z

‎A personal opinion about translation priorities

Espreon at 12:43, 31 October 2012

2012-10-31T12:43:10Z

Espreon: Fixed link to units.wesnoth.org page

2012-10-31T12:42:48Z

Fixed link to units.wesnoth.org page

Espreon: /* Translator's Guide */

2012-10-31T12:26:02Z

‎Translator's Guide

Crommy: /* Noble titles and form of address */ added link

2011-07-10T13:05:01Z

‎Noble titles and form of address: added link

Crommy: Fighting stubs in translations

2011-06-05T13:05:21Z

Fighting stubs in translations

Deusite: /* See Also */

2011-04-15T03:49:30Z

‎See Also

Crommy: /* See Also */ Added wiki link to legendary creatures

2011-03-11T21:57:23Z

‎See Also: Added wiki link to legendary creatures

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 === A personal opinion about translation priorities ===
-As of June 2011, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 15274 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo | technical things and procedures]].
+As of June 2020, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 18121 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo | technical things and procedures]].
 To gather a team of permanent translators is not too easy - anyhow, attracting players, that loved one campaign and want to play some more, might be a valuable approach to tease those into the team. So, a good start for your efforts might be the [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-tutorial Tutorial] and its sequel, the campaign [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-httt Heir to the Throne].

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 * Concerning [[Etiquette | diplomacy or etiquette]] in general
 * Addressing persons as [http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32270 "My Lord"/"Mylady"] in other languages.
 == See Also ==

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 === A personal opinion about translation priorities ===
-As of June 2011, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 15274 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net) or Espreon (Majora700 AT gmail DOT com). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo | technical things and procedures]].
+As of June 2011, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 15274 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo | technical things and procedures]].
 To gather a team of permanent translators is not too easy - anyhow, attracting players, that loved one campaign and want to play some more, might be a valuable approach to tease those into the team. So, a good start for your efforts might be the [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-tutorial Tutorial] and its sequel, the campaign [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-httt Heir to the Throne].

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 === A personal opinion about translation priorities ===
-As of June 2011, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 15274 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net) or Espreon (Majora700@gmail.com). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo | technical things and procedures]].
+As of June 2011, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 15274 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net) or Espreon (Majora700 AT gmail DOT com). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo | technical things and procedures]].
 To gather a team of permanent translators is not too easy - anyhow, attracting players, that loved one campaign and want to play some more, might be a valuable approach to tease those into the team. So, a good start for your efforts might be the [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-tutorial Tutorial] and its sequel, the campaign [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-httt Heir to the Throne].

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 * [[CharactersStorys| A list of hero descriptions (Spoiler Warning)]]
 * [[RaceDescriptions-backstory | Background on Wesnoths races]] but see also [[Races]] and of course their [[SecretLore | Secret Lore]]
-* Browse the [http://units.wesnoth.org/trunk/C/mainline.html unit tree] in all languages BfW is translated in.
+* Browse the [http://units.wesnoth.org/trunk/mainline/en_US/mainline.html unit tree] in all languages BfW is translated in.
 * The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures Wikipedia-List of legendary creatures] and references therein
 [[Category:Translations]]
 * [[CampaignDialogue]]

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 * Northern Lands - Some clarification for "Northern Rebirth" and "The Hammer of Thursagan" about "Lord Protector" and "Lord Companion" may be found here [http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20299&p=300959#p300959]
-* A general discussion, whether there is a unified hierarchy throughout space and time in Wesnoth (I would not expect it, though) [can not find the thread on the forums right now, although being sure, that I read it]
+* Concerning [[Etiquette | diplomacy or etiquette]] in general
 * Addressing persons as [http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32270 "My Lord"/"Mylady"] in other languages.

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	== Translator's Guide ==		== Translator's Guide ==
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		+	=== A personal opinion about translation priorities ===
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		+	As of June 2011, The Battle of Wesnoth official packages include 15274 strings to translate, some of them being one word only, but many are full paragraphs as well. While maintaining an existing translation might be done in a few days a year (per campaign), starting a translation from scratch will definitively be a teams work - For a new language contact Ivanovic (crazy-ivanovic AT gmx DOT net) or Torangan (david AT torangan DOT de). But even single campaigns may take you down, resulting in stubs. In any case, make yourself familiar with a few [[WesnothTranslationsHowTo \| technical things and procedures]].
		+
		+	To gather a team of permanent translators is not too easy - anyhow, attracting players, that loved one campaign and want to play some more, might be a valuable approach to tease those into the team. So, a good start for your efforts might be the [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-tutorial Tutorial] and its sequel, the campaign [http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/index.php?version=branch&package=wesnoth-httt Heir to the Throne].
		+
		+	You may ask - What is about the game engine, technical things, or the unit descriptions, the manual etc? Well, in [[User:Crommy \|my]] personal opinion, the campaign should go first, and perhaps the main menu buttons should be prioritized, to be able to start a game. The reason is, that in my opinion, there are more players understanding "computer English" than "story-fantasy English". With one full campaign translated, the game should attract some more translators by itself, if you put up a formal "call for help" by starting an own wiki-page for your [[WesnothTranslations \| language]]. If you prefer the multiplayer games over the campaigns, a different approach might be better, though.
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		+	== General questions about translations ==

	As per Lim Choon Kiat suggestion, here is a collection of problems (and solutions) for translators.		As per Lim Choon Kiat suggestion, here is a collection of problems (and solutions) for translators.

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	* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures Wikipedia-List of legendary creatures] and references therein		* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures Wikipedia-List of legendary creatures] and references therein
	[[Category:Translations]]		[[Category:Translations]]
		+	* [[CampaignDialogue]]