Community Platform KB Translation Project

The Second Life Knowledge Base is now on the Community Platform.

This is place to keep working notes on translation efforts there.

Process

1. Look below for "Articles ready for translation".
2. Sign in in Second Life Knowledge Base in Lithium.
3. Got to the English Knowledge Base and find the article you have choosen for translate.
4. Click on Edit button.
5. Click in any place of the text. Then, you will see the Edition menu bar.
6. In that Edition bar, click the "HTML" button.
7. You will see in a popup window the HTML Source Editor. Copy ALL (text and html tags).
8. Click the Cancel button for close the HTML Source Editor window. DON'T CLICK the Update button!
9. Go to the Knowledge Base page of your locale: Deutsch, Français, Español, or Português.
10. Click on New Article.
11. Choose Free form as a type of article and click Start Article.
12. The Editor opens. Paste ALL the content (text and html tags) of the English article.
    • Add the subject by translating the English title.
    • Add labels, choose the same as the ones in English (see Labels next to the About in the English article).
13. Proceed to translating the article, respecting the original layout. Don't change or delete any html tag, but you must delete the original html tags for images:
    • For screenshots, if you can take a localized screenshot, that is great. The image will be uploaded to your computer. Or upload the image to the wiki (external image: see how).
14. You can save your work as a draft clicking the Save button.
    • In any moment you can go to your saved as draft articles. Go to Knowledge Base page of your locale and click Knowledge Base Options > Knowledge Base Dashboard. Click the Drafts tab.
15. When you've finished your translation, clik Save & Request Review.
16. Have someone review your work
17. In this wiki page, mention the article is Ready to be reviewed.
18. Reviewer, once done, must click Save & Request Publication.
19. In this wiki page, add the article to "Translated".

REMEMBER: If you have questions or need to clarify something, you can ask in our private Community Translators Forums.
Or if it is a question that only can solve the Lindens, contact them.

English articles

See Checklist for KB article editing.

Workflow: When an article completes a stage (e.g. technical review) then move it into the next section (e.g. copy editing).

Ready for technical review

• Voice morphing
• Avatar attachments
• Account credentials
• Alpha channels
• Animation guide
• Display names
• Camera (point of view) controls
• Login failure

Ready for copy editing

• Account credentials
• Alpha channels
• POV controls
• Enhanced avatar physics

Ready for translation

This is the place to list English articles that are ready for translation. Once placed here, they should not be significantly modified.

• About the Second Life Knowledge Base
• Usernames
• Release notes
• How to contact customer support
• How to report a bug or request a feature
• Knowledge Base Label Translations
• Age Verification. Please see this JIRA: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CT-650

NOTE: Spanish team needs more "Ready for translation" articles.

In progress

Community translators please indicate articles that you are actively working on below.

English	French	German	Portuguese	Spanish
		Knowledge Base Label Translations		Age Verification. Please see this JIRA: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CT-650

Translated

Move links to translated articles here.

English	French	German	Portuguese	Spanish
Usernames	(published, see below)	Benutzernamen		(published, see below)
How to contact customer support	Comment contacter le service consommateur	Den Kunden-Support kontaktieren		(published, see below)
Release notes	(publshed, see below)			(published, see below)
Knowledge Base Label Translations	Knowledge Base Label Translations			Knowledge Base Label Translations

Published Translations

Move links to translated and published articles here.

English	French	German	Portuguese	Spanish
Community Standards	Règles communautaires (translation by LL).	Community-Standards (translation by LL).	Normas da comunidade (translation by LL).	Normas de la comunidad (translation by LL).
Release notes	Notes de version			Notas de la versión
How to contact customer support				Cómo contactar con el servicio de Soporte al cliente
Community Guidelines	Article officiel de Linden Lab:Lignes de conduite relatives à la participation de la communauté	Linden Lab Offiziell:Richtlinien für die Nutzung der Community-Seiten	Linden Lab informa:Regras de participação em comunidades	Artículo oficial de Linden Lab:Directrices de la participación en la comunidad
Login failure				Fallo al conectarse. Please, see below "Note 1".
How to report a bug or request a feature				Cómo informar de un error o solicitar una nueva función
Usernames	Les noms d'utilisateurs			Los nombres de usuario Please, see below "Note 1".
About the Second Life Knowledge Base				La Base de Conocimientos de Second Life Please, see below "Note 1".

• Note 1. This KB article has a problem with the Contents table, we cannot create that Contents successfully. Probably it is a known problem.

Target languages

List translated articles here when they are:

• in translation;
• in review;
• ready to be published.

German

Articles in progress:

Articles ready to be published:

• Einen Fehler melden oder neue Funktionen vorschlagen
• Den Kunden-Support kontaktieren
  • This article is already published but needs revision 2 to be published (I added the missing labels)

French

English	In translation	In review	Ready to be published	Published
Release notes				Notes de version
How to report a bug or request a feature	En cours : SO
About the Second Life Knowledge Base	En cours : OF
How to contact customer support	En cours : LB	En cours

Spanish

English	In translation	In review	Ready to be published	Published
Account credentials	Yes, in translation.
Flagging an item on the Marketplace	Reportar un ítem del Marketplace (March 28, 2011)
Avatar attachments	(Pending technical review of the English article) Los anexos del avatar (March 29, 2011)
Usernames				Los nombres de usuario
About the Second Life Knowledge Base				La Base de Conocimientos de Second Life
How to report a bug or request a feature				Cómo informar de un error o solicitar una nueva función
Login failure				Fallo al conectarse
Community Standards				Normas de la comunidad (translation by LL) (see Note 2).
Release notes				Notas de la versión
How to contact customer support				Cómo contactar con el servicio de Soporte al cliente
Community Guidelines				Artículo oficial de Linden Lab:Directrices de la participación en la comunidad (see Note 1).
			Knowledge Base Label Translations. See this Google Doc.
Age Verification		Verificación de la edad. Working in this Google Doc. Please see this JIRA.

• Note 1. From this JIRA. Drafts: Las Normas de la Comunidad de Second Life (Lithium format); also in wiki format.
• Note 2. In any unknown (for us) moment, LL publish this official translation. There is a previous translation (by the Spanish translators team) at Second_Life Community Standards/es; also in Lithium format.

Portuguese

• in review;

An article for Age Verification in Portuguese - http://community.secondlife.com/t5/tkb/dashboardpage/board-id/Portugues_KB.

Languages not supported on Community Platform

The Community Platform currently supports only the above four languages in addition to English. Content for additional languages (for example, Italian and Japanese) will remain on this wiki.