Battlestar Wiki:Translation Project

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This project deals with converting articles from the Battlestar Wiki into other languages.

Overview[edit]

Presently, all of the content on this wiki is in english -- American english, to be specific. We have people who view this Wiki from other countries, as far away as Europe. And likely further.

Therefore, this is a formal effort to recruit mutli-lingual contributors and organize these contributors to translate our documents in other languages.

How to Begin[edit]

Since we don't (yet) have a setup similar to Wikipedia (where Wikipedia has individal German, Italian, and Spanish editions of Wikipedia), here is how translated articles can be added.

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 William Adama and translate it into German. Here's how you would begin:

  • In the search box, type in:
    William Adama/de:William Adama
  • 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 will then set up an invidiual BSG Wiki for that language. (i.e. de.battlestarwiki.org for German BSG Wiki, et al.).

Contributors[edit]

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.

  • Steelviper 09:57, 27 January 2006 (EST) - Spanish, 4 years of Spanish and a year of Latin (a long time ago)
  • 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.
  • Leoben_Conoy 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)

Articles in Progress[edit]

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

  • 33/es:33 - Spanish (overview and summary translated)
  • Water/es:Water - Spanish (overview and summary translated)
  • 33/de:33 - German (overview translated)

Articles Translated[edit]

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

Viper 0205/de:Viper 0205-German