Multilingual Speakers: Interested in FAQ Translation?

awp

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awp 2008-03-28T15:31:26+00:00

Despite the abundance of information in the FAQ there are still people popping into irc asking why their beatmaps don't work, or how to submit a beatmap to the site, or whatever. I think part of the problem might be due to the fact that not everyone is fluent in English (but we forgive you for that), so~

Would anyone here be interested in helping to translate the osu! FAQ into any languages they are capable? We are a rather diverse community, and I think this would help a number of new players out.

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Echo 2008-03-28T19:00:51+00:00

Do you mean this? http://osu.ppy.sh/index.php?p=faq

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awp 2008-03-28T19:30:40+00:00

Indeed.

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Sinistro 2008-03-29T09:34:38+00:00

I can translate it to Greek, but I expect you would prefer languages spoken by at least a few hundred million people, right?

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shinn_old 2008-03-29T13:30:15+00:00

I can roughly translate it to Traditional Chinese. But after Writing, it needs serious editing.

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Echo 2008-03-29T18:53:43+00:00

shinn wrote:
I can roughly translate it to Traditional Chinese. But after Writing, it needs serious editing.

Same here

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pokedigi 2008-03-30T03:02:13+00:00

eirrol wrote:
Peppy should do Japanese. I'll do Chinese.

I don't think Offset should be translate in "弱起小节开始处". Can we translate together?

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shinn_old 2008-03-30T06:32:26+00:00

IDK....

I'm not very fluent in Chinese...

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Echo 2008-03-30T09:17:21+00:00

eirrol wrote:
Peppy should do Japanese.

Interestingly enough, I don't think there are that many Japanese players around.

I can help check the Chinese translation, but like shinn I'm not that fluent.

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peppy 2008-03-30T14:52:31+00:00

@echo: We should look at databasing the site's content so we can easily add translations for all this static-ish content.

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Loginer 2008-03-30T21:49:28+00:00

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Exile_NX 2008-03-31T12:25:54+00:00

I can do Russian

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luke27 2008-04-10T15:57:33+00:00

I relly like the idea, I can translate it to Spanish, just contact me

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Vic 2008-04-13T17:36:37+00:00

I`ll translate it to Polish because we want moar Polish players so we need Polish FAQ. (lol)

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awp 2008-04-13T18:57:04+00:00

I'm thinking we should bring this up at the next community meeting and organize how we're going to do it.

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Echo 2008-04-13T19:24:23+00:00

I think just stick it in a (new) hidden forum.

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Loginer 2008-04-18T10:14:25+00:00

I've already started by downloading the FAQ, translating it in Dreamweaver.

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Echo 2008-04-18T10:36:23+00:00

If you're translating it text is all we need.

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luke27 2008-04-18T11:06:32+00:00

Echo49 wrote:
If you're translating it text is all we need.

Does it mean I only must edit it and save it as plain text (.txt) or what? I started too and I have done 70% aprox...

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Echo 2008-04-18T11:19:14+00:00

Well, HTML is fine, but text just saves you a lot of work

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luke27 2008-04-18T11:56:29+00:00

Echo49 wrote:
Well, HTML is fine, but text just saves you a lot of work

But I use a WYSIWYG editor so I just change the text without entering in code...

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Hymake 2008-04-18T13:06:04+00:00

I can translate the FAQs to Spanish. If I can help, please, tell me

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luke27 2008-04-18T14:19:44+00:00

Hymake wrote:
I can translate the FAQs to Spanish. If I can help, please, tell me

Actually I am translating it to Spanish, although if you want to help, you are welcome!

Contact me!

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Fraeon 2008-04-28T00:44:43+00:00

Well, I could volunteer to translate stuff into Finnish, but I sort of already assume that anyone who ends up here already has a firm enough grasp of English not to need Finnish documentation/anything.

Such is our country. Blah.

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Loginer 2008-04-29T05:54:04+00:00

Fraeon wrote:
Well, I could volunteer to translate stuff into Finnish, but I sort of already assume that anyone who ends up here already has a firm enough grasp of English not to need Finnish documentation/anything.

Such is our country. Blah.

Meh, most people do. Just do it for the sake of completion. :>

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awp 2008-04-30T16:41:26+00:00

Bragging rights, etc. I don't see why any language should be left out if we have the bilingual speakers for it.

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Olinad 2008-05-01T18:02:10+00:00

Has anybody already done an italian translation?
I can do it... Do I only need to translate it in a .txt and then email it to peppy? If so I'm gonna start it right now

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Echo 2008-05-01T20:23:47+00:00

Olinad wrote:
Has anybody already done an italian translation?
I can do it... Do I only need to translate it in a .txt and then email it to peppy? If so I'm gonna start it right now

That's the idea

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Olinad 2008-05-02T12:20:47+00:00

Ok I'm gonna do it as early as possible

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pokedigi 2008-05-03T15:14:05+00:00

Chinese?

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awp 2008-05-03T16:27:50+00:00

It'd be a good one to have; there are quite a few regulars that speak chinese. Shinn might've already gotten started on it; you might wanna double check/work with him.

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shinn_old 2008-05-05T09:58:55+00:00

I'm kinda full right now, so I can't really help

I promise to help during summer though!

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I can do jap a bit

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I would volunteer to translate the FAQ into Mandarin and Indonesian. Malay may be a bit of a problem but I don't see why I can't try. Well, I have to, at least, complete my examinations first. I'm quite competent with the other two. My grasp of Japanese isn't very good yet, so I won't want to try. D:

How's the translations coming about?

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MaybeLater_x 2008-05-09T20:26:24+00:00

I think translating the FAQ is a wonderful idea. :] But what about the game? Would the text in the actual application need to be translated as well, for players ease? I guess it's pretty easy to find out what buttons do what by trial-and-error, though.

I'm actually surprised no one's offered to do German or French. Thought they would be more popular. I'm learning them but I don't know them well enough to do a translation.

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Echo 2008-05-09T20:53:43+00:00

Adding multi-language support to the game is one of the long-term goals for Osu!, but it got out-voted by OpenGL support and Storyboard editor. That doesn't mean it won't be in the game, it just won't be there until much later.

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Sakimichi 2008-05-15T03:49:29+00:00

I could do a Tagalog [Filipino] Bisaya [Native filipino] Translation

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James 2008-05-16T07:36:18+00:00

Tagalog is hard. Thats why I don't bother translating. And IMO Taglish sucks.

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Nharox 2008-06-02T12:43:31+00:00

I can translate the FAQ into german.

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Olinad 2008-06-27T22:02:22+00:00

I sent italian translation to peppy yesterday, I hope he received it... I won't be here in the next 2 months

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Koopser 2008-07-22T02:16:54+00:00

Well, I can do Portuguese (Brazilian one, it's slighlty different). Just need to know how and when.

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Inozuma 2008-07-28T00:47:48+00:00

I can do the french one.

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Olinad 2008-07-31T05:20:51+00:00

OMG, the FAQs all changed with the new website! I'll wait for peppy to add other translations before translating the differences again

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awp 2008-08-08T18:10:39+00:00

Inozuma wrote:
And by the way, can we edit images to translate them into another language (french in my case)

I think the good Doctor planned ahead for this, as most images have a number-based legend to make translating them easy. For the ones that have English words written on them, it's pretty easy to edit those images.

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Inozuma 2008-08-09T11:02:40+00:00

Ok, thanks for the reply.
I'm going to edit them in that way.

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AgentSieg 2008-08-30T08:00:02+00:00

Have the german and spanish ones already been done? If not I could do them.

I could also do a catalan version.