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Jon
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 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:28 pm Post subject: Maiden World Translation |
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Since the site is growing with fans from all across the world, we'd be really interested in pulling together some translations of our content & dc hub pages so that more people can get involved.
Its pretty simple to do, simply take a page on the site, copy all its text into notepad, translate it into your native language and e-mail to admin AT maiden-world DOT com.
Its a small piece of work if you're bilingual, but your time could mean that hundreds of users from your country can get online and find information  |
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Cyrus
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Maiden World Translation |
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Since the site is growing with fans from all across the world, we'd be really interested in pulling together some translations of our content & dc hub pages so that more people can get involved.
Its pretty simple to do, simply take a page on the site, copy all its text into notepad, translate it into your native language and e-mail to admin AT maiden-world DOT com.
Its a small piece of work if you're bilingual, but your time could mean that hundreds of users from your country can get online and find information
Will do...after Tuesday. Got some schoolwork that needs to be finished first |
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Meuhhh
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: Maiden World Translation |
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Since the site is growing with fans from all across the world, we'd be really interested in pulling together some translations of our content & dc hub pages so that more people can get involved.
Its pretty simple to do, simply take a page on the site, copy all its text into notepad, translate it into your native language and e-mail to admin AT maiden-world DOT com.
Its a small piece of work if you're bilingual, but your time could mean that hundreds of users from your country can get online and find information
Any pages? Because I could bo it for french people !
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Jon
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Yeah any page.
Key things would be like the DC Hub page: http://www.maiden-world.com/dchub.html or the Index page http://www.maiden-world.com/. You could do the articles too (if you want a challenge ;D): http://www.maiden-world.com/articles.html
Also the text for the Tabs, Lyrics and Bootleg databases where it has fields like "date" or "title" would need done into each language (not the actual boot info though, that would be too much).
Basically anything you see in english on the site is yours to translate if you want |
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Meuhhh
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Yeah any page.
Key things would be like the DC Hub page: http://www.maiden-world.com/dchub.html or the Index page http://www.maiden-world.com/. You could do the articles too (if you want a challenge ;D): http://www.maiden-world.com/articles.html
Also the text for the Tabs, Lyrics and Bootleg databases where it has fields like "date" or "title" would need done into each language (not the actual boot info though, that would be too much).
Basically anything you see in english on the site is yours to translate if you want
That's quite a lot of work I'll see if I can get something done when I'll have some free time on m hands!
now, back to my studies  |
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Basses High
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Shall I translate it into a Janner accent?  |
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Meuhhh
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Shall I translate it into a Janner accent?
I bet it's funny but I don't understand !!!  |
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Cyrus
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Thinking about it some more, is it really neccessary to translate the site to a million languages? I mean English is a international language and practically everybody knows some English.
It just sounds like too much work for nothing to translate the site  |
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Jon
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Thinking about it some more, is it really neccessary to translate the site to a million languages? I mean English is a international language and practically everybody knows some English.
It just sounds like too much work for nothing to translate the site
Theres a lot of language-specific websites and forums out there for maiden, and a large number of them have the same problems that Maiden World set out to fix with the existing english sites.
I understand about it being a lot of work, and I'd never expect anyone to do it, but its something that would be nice to invite not just english users. |
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Cyrus
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Thinking about it some more, is it really neccessary to translate the site to a million languages? I mean English is a international language and practically everybody knows some English.
It just sounds like too much work for nothing to translate the site
Theres a lot of language-specific websites and forums out there for maiden, and a large number of them have the same problems that Maiden World set out to fix with the existing english sites.
I understand about it being a lot of work, and I'd never expect anyone to do it, but its something that would be nice to invite not just english users.
Okay. I'll see what I can do. I have the night of and tomorrow off, so I might translate parts of the site into Norwegian (if that is desirable) |
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MaidenMadness
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| well what do you want to be translated into one of the worlds most spoken languages - croatian? |
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Jon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| see my post above for details of what would be first to translate (ideally) |
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MaidenMadness
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maybe this is more suitable for pm but i think that will aid everyone
more details how you want them to be sent? i'll get to translating that as soon as i find time. i am in a lack of time right now cause i have some exams in collage, but i'll translate at least sth. in what format should i send them? can i send them in .doc and leave turning into a html to you? |
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Jon
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Plaintext would be even easier.. just in Notepad or something. (although .doc is fine.)
Dont bother with the HTML, its all different on the site's backend anyway and I can deal with the formatting. |
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