Suggestion:20080315 Translation

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20080315 Translation

DmBO 03:06, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion type
Interface

Suggestion scope
Non-English Speakers

Suggestion description
Can we translate urbandead.com to other languages? I can participate in Russian. I'm Russian, so quality of Russian text guaranteed.
But some changes should be done in text-composing algorithm. Russian is pretty intricate.

Voting Section

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Votes must be numbered, justified, signed, and timestamped. # justification ~~~~ Votes that do not conform to the above may be struck by any user.

The only valid votes are Keep, Kill, Spam or Dupe. If you wish to abstain from voting, do not vote.

Keep Votes

1. Keep Why not, I don't see how this can hurt anything. --Jamie Cantwell3 03:35, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
2. Keep Same here, Don't think it would break anything --Mikhail 04:29, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
3. More players!!! - Pardus 06:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
4. Да! Я предпачитаю умирать по-русский! --Ms.Panes 07:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
   • Re - Спасибо за поддежку, товарищ! --DmBO 11:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
5. Keep ok --Airborne88^T|Z.Quiz|PSS 07:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
6. Keep - It might help bring in more players.--Dr Doom86 ^{T PSS} 08:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
7. Без сомнений - я знаю пару игроков, которые не захотели играть из-за незнания английского.... (i know few players that didn't like the game because of lack of english knowledge) --~~~~ [talk] 10:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
8. Keep - Can't hurt anyone - maybe it could be a wiki project to translate everything(?). • DS • ^{Tlk•Dev•W!•+1} 10:50, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
9. Keep Surely the russians could get their own wiki? Which the english speaking wiki could be in constant competition with.--Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 11:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
10. Keep - Definitely. More Languages = More Players = More Fun. -- Cheese 12:06, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
11. Keep - I'm English, but I see how this would help.--Studoku 13:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
12. Keep - If it's possible......--Seventythree^Talk 14:29, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
13. Держите - это предложение будет больш! Оно сделает урбанских умерших более популярным среди других Hации! --BoboTalkClown 15:49, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
14. Keep - More players. --Heretic144 18:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
15. Keep - I find it frustrating when I try to visit foreign sites and I can't because I don't understand the language. I wouldn't call this a first priority, but I think it's worth looking into. --Hhal 18:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
16. Weak Keep - Having a broader community is always good, but I am wary about translation issues. I'm really only posting here because I don't want to be associated with the retards in Spam. I mean, there's giving Kevan work and there's making russian players run to Babelfish to get an incorrect translation every turn. Geez.--Vandurn 21:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
17. Keep - Should be possible. --  AHLGTG THE END IS ACTUALLY NIGH! 23:33, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
18. Keep - I suppose so. --ZsL 23:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
19. Weak Keep - I s'pose , not really major though , --Rorybob 01:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
20. Keep – I think it'd be great to make UD more accessible to those who don't have English as a first language. However, I also think it'd need a large amount of community support to get off the ground – we can't expect Kevan to translate UD into a bunch of languages on his lonesome. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 05:57, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
21. Keep - Aye. That would be interesting. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 06:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
22. Not bad. But I speak Morse code. Can we translate UD into that as well? --Axe Hack Talk 17:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
23. Keep- Good. --Darth Lumis^{T! A! E! SR} 19:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
24. Dah - I'm sure Lachryma would love this. --Private Mark 00:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
25. Keep - i believe that Kevan also wants more people around the world to play this game. besides advertising and telling friends about it, having more languages for selection is a very effective way. --RayHanley 11:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
26. Keep - More people = better game IMO.--Carnexhat 12:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
27. Keep - I can support this. Greasemonkey is a good option, but it still is a good idea. --Druuuuu ^OcTRR 17:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
28. Keep - .- -..- . / .... .- -.-. -.- --..-- / .. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / .--. .-. --- ...- . / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . / .. ... / .- / -.-. --- -- -- --- -. .-.. -.-- / ... .--. --- -.- . -. / .-.. .- -. --. ..- .- --. . --..-- / --- ..-. / -.-. --- ..- .-. ... . .-.-.- / .... --- .-- . ...- . .-. --..-- / .. - / ... .... --- ..- .-.. -.. / -... . / .-.. .. -- .. - . -.. / - --- / -.-. --- -- -- --- -. / .-.. .- -. --. ..- .- --. . ... / --- -. .-.. -.-- .-.-.- / .. / -.-. .- -. .----. - / .. -- .- --. .. -. . / .... --- .-- / ..- -.. / .-- --- ..- .-.. -.. / -... . / .... .- ...- .. -. --. / - --- / --. --- / - .... .-. --- ..- --. .... / - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - .. --- -. ... / .. -. - --- / . ...- . .-. -.-- / ... .. -. --. .-.. . / .-.. .- -. --. ..- .- --. . / - .... .- - / . ...- . .-. / . -..- .. ... - . -.. .-.-.- --Kolechovski 19:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
29. Keep - I think this is a wonderful idea. I'm learning Russian so I could use this to practice.
30. Guarda - ¡Por supuesto, también necesitamos el español! --_└^Frozen_┘^┌_Flame^┐ 14:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
31. Keep - Wunderbare Anregung.--Luke Skywalker 05:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
32. Keep -Deutsch würde mehr spaß machen, oder? Aber diese Anregung sieht sehr schön aus. --Kingofallpie 15:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Kill Votes

1. kill - this can be done with greasemonkey scripts, as was suggested in Development, and not need any changes to UD engine itself. also, the last thing i want is competing wikis..... --WanYao 11:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
2. Matar - Si se puede traducir todo usando greasemonkey no haya niguna razón porque Kevan lo debe hacer. Es una idea buena y te ayudaré si puedo, pero me sueña como un projecto personal.  Billy Club Thorton  T!  RR  17:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
3. Kill - Right now we can reasonably assume that most players could, in theory, communicate with each other. Any translated UD would need its own isolated grid to keep this (useful) assumption. Anything short of that is bad for the game. --Pgunn 19:04, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
4. Kill - As BillyClubThorton, but I can't help you with it. --Pdeq^Talk* 19:49, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
5. Kill - As BillyClubThorton - Headshot Hal ^Talk 20:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
6. Kill - Billy, of course. --Diano 23:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Spam/Dupe Votes

1. spam before i vote keep, could this be solved by outside translation websites such as this one? instead of having UD do all the work --Scotw 14:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
2. Spam - Two reasons why I voted this way, 1) No need to give Kevan Extra work, specially when there is already greasemonkey scripts that do it..... 2) You can't just say "I wanna translate the game" Details Man, Details!!! Is anyone gonna help you with The Russian Translation? Do you know any French, Spanish, German friends that can help? Do you know how to code that stuff yourself? Are you ready for all that work? (your gonna need to translate the game, probably translate the wiki, help translate some forums maybe... etc.) I'm sorry but this just isn't thought out enough...--/~Rakuen~\^Talk I Still Love Grim 16:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
   • Re - 1) Somebody doesn't use Firefox 2) Here's details: Yes. No, I don't, and I shouldn't; it can be done by Frenchs, Spaniards and Germans. Yes, I know and I'm ready, but Kevan will not give me sources, I think. Forums are untranslatable by design, wiki will be translated as translations need (look on Mediawiki itself). --DmBO 23:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
3. Spam - It would make player resources unusable simply due to the fact that not all of us speak your languages. 1 language for everything is for the best.--Karek^maps?! 16:53, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
4. Spam - How would death rattle translate? How would players communicate? Would they use english or would the game translate for them? and if it did translate half of the time it wouldn't make sence because of errors. --FXI 23:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
   • Re - Death rattle will not be translated, I think, it doesnt'n mean something anyway and cannot be translated. Translation will not affect player communication, of course. Each player will speak on his native language, on English for international contacts and broadcasting. --DmBO 11:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
5. Spam - You had me up until the point you said you'd translate the wiki. The trenchie-ness doesn't need to be spread to other languages. -- Iscariot 19:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
   • Re - I mean it can be translated. I want to translate urbandead.com, not wiki.urbandead.com. But maybe somebody (probably me) will translate some wiki pages on request. --DmBO 04:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
6. Spam - How would you translate Caiger Mall into say Chinese? --_LH779 11:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
   • Re - I don't know, ask Chinese. Is it a problem?.. --DmBO 15:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)