Forum:Project Idea - Language Accessibility

Well, basically, the idea that I have had for a while is this: we need to bring the communities of the different language wikis together. Therefore, I wish to contact active admins of the smaller, different language wikis in order to discuss the idea of using translation software to create pages from the English wiki and then tagging them as 'Broken Language' pages in order that the language proficient users of the other wikis can correct the grammar. Obviously this would be a very long term project, but hopefully one that will mean that all the wikis are more consistent and have the same information before the release of either FOOL or FO4. Feedback would be helpful, as would names of individuals to contact, but please keep comments like 'that would never work' to yourself. From past experience, they come from people who haven't read it properly and who then ask questions that have already been answered. User:GuardianOfTheWastes/Random I have done a mock up on a random page. If you see a language that you are fluent in, please read it (or attempt to) and then give feedback on whether or not that language would be a feasible one to translate this wiki into. You should base that judgement on whether or not it would take a reasonable amount of time to do, and whether or not it is understandable enough to get the gist of each sentence to correct it. Thanks again. -- User:GuardianOfTheWastes


 * It's not a bad idea in principle, but ultimately it's up to the communities of the non-English wikis to decide whether they'd want that or not. The English wiki doesn't really have any sort of authority over them and just like the fate of our wiki is determined by our community, the fate of their wikis is determined by them. Another thing to consider is that they might prefer to work with the Wikia fork seeing as the localized wikis have not moved to Curse along with us. -- Porter21 (talk) 22:54, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I am aware of that, but whom should I be contacting? And what I would also like are people who would be willing to put in the work needed to transfer and then correct the translations. Does anyone know how to get onto the other wikis, and maybe how to start those that haven't already been started? Furthermore, do you know how I might be able to use my bot to speed up the process Porter? TheGuardianCalligraphy.pngGuardianoftheWastesTag.png 14:07, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't want this to fade into obscurity, and I'd really like feed back on this. κηδεμόνας  μιλώ


 * As for who you should be contacting, I'd go to Special:ListUsers/sysop on the respective wiki and search for the one who's edited most recently. Regarding localized wikis on Curse (which is, I assume, is what you mean), you'd probably have to ask Ausir; no idea what Curse's plans for this are. And no, unfortunately I don't have any ideas on how you might utilize a bot to speed this up - I've never really worked on anything translation-related. -- Porter21 (talk) 09:58, 11 January 2012 (UTC)