Editing Battlestar Wiki:Translation Project

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This project deals with converting articles from the ''Battlestar Wiki'' into other languages and how to accomplish that task.

== Overview ==
Presently, all of the content on this wiki is in [[Wikipedia:English language|english]] — American english, to be specific.  We have people who view this Wiki from other countries, as far away as Europe and Asia.  And likely further. 

Therefore, this is a formal effort to recruit mutlilingual contributors and organize these contributors to translate our documents in other languages. Once there is enough translations of a particular translation, the Battlestar Wiki, as a group, will sit down and see if there is cause enough for a full language site with the "battlestarwiki.org" domain name.

Currently we have these sub-language projects with there status.
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! Wiki !! Current Status !! Main Sysops
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|[[:de:Hauptseite|Deutsch / German Wiki]]
|| Active
| align="left" | [[:de:User:Astfgl|Astfgl]] ([[User:Astfgl|en]])<br/>[[:de:User:CC-Mel|CC-Mel]] ([[User:CC-Mel|en]]) 
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|[[:es:Portada|Español / Spanish Wiki]] 
|| Active
| align="left" | [[:de:User:Baltar Gaiolas|Baltar Gaiolas]] ([[User:Baltar Gaiolas|en]])
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|[[:fr:Accueil|Français / French Wiki]] 
|| Inactive
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|[[:tr:Ana Sayfa|Türkçe / Turkish Wiki]] 
|| Active
| align="left" | [[:tr:User:Hudd|Hudd]] ([[User:Hudd|en]])<br/>[[:tr:User:Redlinetheturk|Redlinetheturk]] ([[User:Redlinetheturk|en]])
|- align="center"
|[[:zh:首页|中文 / Chinese Wiki]] 
|| Active
| align="left" | [[:zh:User:SuperMMX|SuperMMX]] ([[User:SuperMMX|en]])
|}

Every language starts out with at least two sysops approved by the English administrators. Afterwards  the wiki must hold their own [[BW:RFA|RFA]] hearings.

If you want to help out with any or all of these language wikis, please goto those sites. Keep in mind that you will have to refer to this Wiki for policy questions.

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== How to Begin ==

To begin, create a subpage of the article you wish to translate.  For instance, let's say you were going to tackle the article on [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] and translate it into Spanish.  Here's how you would begin:

* In the search box, type in: 
*: The Fleet/'''es''':La Flota
* Press "Go".  Select "create this article" option.
* Begin translating the article.  Once done, list the article on this page under Articles Translated.

Once there are a growing number of articles, Joe or Shane will then set up an individual BSG Wiki for that language. (i.e. [[:de:Main Page|de.battlestarwiki.org]] for German BSG Wiki, et al.). '''Never, ever, place interwiki links on these subpages.'''

== Articles Needing Translation ==

Obviously our eventual goal is to have just about everything translated. Rather than listing every page here, this can be used to request critical pages for translators to focus on.

These three should be the first ones done.
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Spoiler Policy]] - All languages.
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions]] - All languages.
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad]] - All languages.

There are others to be translated as well that need to be translated before you can even get your own-wiki. Please take a look at the list [[Battlestar Wiki:Translation Project/Required Translations for Own Wiki|here]]. If you can prove that you can deicated a full force of at least 5-10 people to translating all the required information, we will create a language wiki without question and import all your work to the language wiki.

It is suggested you start from the oldest episodes and articles first before you more to articles that always under going edits.

There are [[BW:SAC|standards and conventions]] for translating. Please read this before doing anything.

=== Who is admin of these wikis during setup? ===
Joe and Shane will be the two overall admins (B-crats, Sysop, checkuser), but you would have to decided as a group who will represent your language.

== Language Specific Spoiler Checkpoints ==
''Feel free to adjust the title of this section.''
This section is intended to be a handy place to keep track of how far the series has progressed in the particular languages, in order to avoid translating spoiler content over from the English side. Only languages that are translating in conjunction with the ''English Wiki'' are listed here.

== Contributors ==

Contributors to this project may be added here.  Please include the languages you would be interested in translating our documents to, as well as your level of expertise in said language.

=== Brazillian Portuguese ===

* [[User:naio21|Ivan]] 00:57, 12 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Brazilian Portuguese, native language
* [[User:Infestans|Infestans]] 18:43, 19 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Brazilian Portuguese, native language

=== Chinese ===

*[[User:SuperMMX|SuperMMX]] - Chinese, Simplified Chinese, native language.
* [[User:Xmuxsp|Xmuxsp]] - Chinese, Simplified Chinese, native language

=== French ===

* [[User:Karoshi|Karoshi]] 11:22, 2 February 2006 (EST) - French, native language.
* [[User:Malcolm|Malcolm]] 10:29, 14 May 2006 (CDT) - French, native language.*
* [[User:Jibo|Jibo]] 13:28, 27 September 2006 (GMT) - French, native language.*
* [[User:Edosak|Edosak]] 21:38, 9 november 2006 (GMT) - French, native language.*
* [[User:Moo|Moo]] 16:23, 12 December 2006 (CST) - French, native language.
* [[User:RasputinAXP|RasputinAXP]] 16:24, 27 February 2007 (CST) - French, 5 years in high school and college, conversational fluidity and translation experience for opera. Also, I'm the admin for fr.bswiki.

=== German ===

* [[User:Astfgl|Astfgl]] 02:57, 04 February 2006 (CET) - German, native German
* [[User:Tirkon|Tirkon en]] [[:de:Benutzer:Tirkon|Tirkon de]]: German:native (Deutsch: Muttersprache), English: good, French moderate (Français: moyen)
* [[User:$traight-$hoota|$traight-$hoota]] &ndash; native German
* [[User:sdfd|sdfd]] native German
* [[User:LaWa|LaWa]] native German
* [[User:rawfire|rawfire]] native German
* [[User:Starbuckster|Starbuckster]] native German; living in the US since 1994

=== Italian ===

* [[User:Purple74|Purple74]] native Italian

=== Japanese ===

* [[User:Zarek Rocks|Zarek Rocks]] 21:23, 2 February 2006 (EST) Two years of Japanese, but a little rusty.  I do have people that could help me edit for grammar though so I'm onboard for that.

* [[User:Yashiko|Yashiko]] 20:34, 7 March 2006 (CST) I'm currently in my first year as a Japanese language and Linguistics major at university, but I have lived in Japan for about a year. I'm willing to try and help out where I can since my grammar isn't back to the level it was when I was living there. I'll try to help out with vocabulary in the meanwhile.

=== Malay ===

* [[User:Starkiller|Starkiller]] 23:59, 30 August 2006 (CDT) Several years of learning Malay, but not good enough. I do have people that could help me edit for grammar though so I'm onboard for that.

=== Spanish ===

* [[User:Major Payne|Major Payne]] 23:42, 03 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Lindem Herz|Lindem Herz]] 10:08, 06 February 2006 (GMT -5h) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Prometheus|Prometheus]] 2:16, 13 February 2006 (EST) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Kestrel|Kestrel]] 13:16, 16 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Dancing_salad|Dancing Salad]] 00:24, 24 February 2006 (GMT +1) - Spanish, native language

=== Swedish ===

* [[User:turboemmis|turboemmis]] 17:48, 11 February 2006 (CET) - Swedish, native language
* [[User:mrpeachum|MrPeachum]] 19:47, 11 February 2006 (GMT -8h, PST) - Swedish, native language

=== Turkish ===

* [[User:Auroriel|Auroriel]] native Turkish
* [[User:Hudd|Hudd]] native Turkish
* [[User:Tabula|Tabula]] native Turkish
* [[User:Redlinetheturk|Redlinetheturk]] native Turkish
* [[User:Myrian|Myrian]] native Turkish
* [[User:Odenat|Odenat]] native Turkish
* [[User:Athelas|Athelas]] native Turkish
* [[User:Bcinar|Bcinar]] native Turkish
* [[User:Cyigit|Cyigit]] native Turkish
* [[User:Kozmoz|Kozmoz]] native Turkish
* [[User:Hae|Hae]] native Turkish

=== More than one non-American English language ===

* [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 27 January 2006 (EST) - Spanish, 4 years of Spanish and a year of Latin (a long time ago)
* [[User:Talos|Talos]] 20:46, 31 January 2006 (EST) -German, 3 years of German plus mother is a German major and a BSG fan. Can also help a little with Russian, and others.
* [[User:LeobenConoy|LeobenConoy]] 20:49 02 February 2006 (TST) - Spanish, 7 years plus foreign exchange to South America (Fluent, but a bit rusty); 2 years of Japanese (some conversational ability, minimal writing/reading ability)
* [[User:Airylli|Airylli]] 11:54, 23 July 2006 (GMT +9) - Spanish, 3 years, a bit of French, Classical Greek (if that is at all helpful), and Korean in a pinch (fairly fluent in speech but not so much in reading/writing)
* [[User:Fang Aili|Fang Aili]] 14:10, 20 September 2006 (CDT) - Some German, some Chinese. Not all that great in either.
* [[User:Catrope|Catrope]] - Dutch (native), English (fluently), bits of French and German (not really worth mentioning), some [[w:West Frisian language|Frisian]] (but that's not really helpful over here).

=== Technical personel ===

: ''People who really don't translate anything, but will help in behind-the-scenes technical tasks.  Or people who promote the effort.  Things like that.''

* [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] 23:00, 13 February 2006 (EST) -- will set up new wikis as the number of documents translated increases and other BTS tasks (the Wizard of Oz, as it were)

* [[User:Shane|Shane]] 10:48, 5 March 2006 (CST) -- IT Specialist

== Articles in Progress ==

Articles that have begun the translation process. They could use more content translated or another eye to look at it (or both).

*日本語 (Japanese)
**[[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/jp:バ ツスタ-ヰキ:標準及び大会]]
**[[Epiphanies/jp:啓示]]
**[[Black Market/jp:闇市]]
**[[Scar/jp:傷痕]]
**[[Sacrifice/jp:生け贄]]
**[[The Captain's Hand/jp:艦長の針]]
**[[Downloaded/jp:ダウンロード]]
**[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I/jp:あんたの負担を落とす, 部分 一]]
**[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II/jp:あんたの負担を落とす, 部分 ニ]]
**[[Lee Adama/jp:リー・アダマ]]
**[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/jp:バトルスター・ギャラクティカ (新シリーズ)]]
**[[Galactica 1980/jp:ギャラクティカ 1980]]
**[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)/jp:宇宙空母ギャラクティカ (オリジナル・シリーズ)]]
**[[The Eye of Jupiter/jp:The Eye of Jupiter]]
**[[Mercury class battlestar/jp:マーキュリー・クラス・バトルスター]]
**[[William Adama/jp:ウィリアム・アダマ]]
**[[Earth/jp:地球]]
**[[Hybrid/jp:ハイブリッド]]
**[[Blackbird/jp:ブラックバード]]

*Swedish
**[[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/sv:Battlestar Wiki:Normer och konventioner]]

*Brazilian Portuguese
**[[33/pt:33]]

*Bahasa Melayu (Malay)
**[[Earth/ms:Bumi]]

== Articles Translated ==

List all articles that have been translated here.  Also include the language that they were translated in.

*日本語 (Japanese)
**[[Viper 0205/jp:ヴァイパー 0205]]
**[[Zak Adama/jp:ザック・アダマ]]
**[[Anne Adama/jp:アン・アダマ]]
**[[Evelyn Adama/jp:エヴリン・アダマ]]
**[[Joseph Adama/jp:ジョゼフアダマ]]
**[[Pegasus/jp:ペガサス]]

== Templates Translated ==


* '''日本語 (Japanese)'''
** [[Template:Spoiler (jp)]]
** [[Template:Episode Data (jp)]]
** [[Template:Episode List (jp)]]
** [[Template:Character Data (jp)]]