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As a designer who has been lucky enough to have one
of his games translated into two additional languages, I'll give my 2
cents.
After taking a look at the Penguin Soccer page for
the first time in a while, I notice that it does not directly link to the
French and Spanish translation pages. I should fix this.
For whatever the numbers are worth, PS in English
has 6000 views, PS in French has over 1000. So it seems to me that there
is an audience for at least this alternate language . . .
Color me in the 2b column - "let the wiki be MOSTLY English with the occasional
foreign language translation offered as "Additional Links" on a given translated
game's page?". Seems to be working so far.
That said, I'll add links directly to the PS
page. Not to mention finally finish the Spanish translation page (thanks
Pablo)! Figure both will be done before the end of June . . .
a
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:36
PM
Subject: [Icehouse] Regarding foreign
languages and the icehousegames.orgwiki
(Been reading some Victorian stuff lately)
I was just
wondering what the Party Line or General Consensus was on accumulating
foreign-language pages on the wiki. I'm of two minds about it:
* It's
GREAT, and why shouldn't we have every game in every language we can get them
translated to?
* Most other wikis I've seen use a different wiki entirely,
for a foreign language version (Wikipedia being the Big Model).
Pros
and Cons to doing it all in one:
PRO: We don't really have many (yet) and
so what's the big deal, you OCD freak?
CON: Our navigation listings might
become a bit... odd, with sub-lists of foreign languages.
PRO: But they're
all just being tagged as Category:[language], so WHAT navigation
listings?
CON: Yeah, WHAT navigation listings, indeed? Are the foreign
language games only ever going to be locatable with the (alphabetic listing)
Categories? What about What Can I Play?, which is probably the best way to
intro games to newbies AND compel them to slowly build their
collections.
PRO: ... Damn, good point...
So I guess I'm basically
asking:
1) Should the one wiki install be pan-lingual, or should
we:
1.a) Make duplicate wikis for other major languages? (Mike says NO! :)
)
1.b) Ask other major foreign languages to host their own wikis and remain
separate? (Lame, so...)
2) If we are pan-lingual, how should be structure
the Main Page to "aim" folks to the foreign language navigation listings like
What Can I Play? and Existing Games?
2.a) It's normally the responsibility
of a page creator to make navigation links on those listing pages. Shall that
remain the case?
2.b) Or do we just forget about it all and let the wiki be
MOSTLY English with the occasional foreign language translation offered as
"Additional Links" on a given translated game's page?
2.b.1) Is the
original designer or the translator responsible for adding that link? (I'd
again put that on the translator--a game page is worthless if it can't
be found by its audience.)
Sorry to be so long on the List, but trying
to discuss this on the wiki is almost impossible (crazy nesting pages and edit
collisions, or no replies at all for weeks and months).
Thanks for your
thoughts;
David
OCD Wiki User and Daily Visitor
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