Community Platform KB Translation Project
Revision as of 09:26, 14 April 2011 by Cayu Cluny (talk | contribs) (→Translated: changed link to Spanisg official translation of Community Standards)
The Second Life Knowledge Base is now on the Community Platform.
This is place to keep working notes on translation efforts there.
Process
- Look below for "Articles ready for translation".
- Sign in in Second Life Knowledge Base in Lithium.
- Got to the English Knowledge Base and find the article you have choosen for translate.
- Click on Edit button.
- Click in any place of the text. Then, you will see the Edition menu bar.
- In that Edition bar, click the "HTML" button.
- You will see in a popup window the HTML Source Editor. Copy ALL (text and html tags).
- Click the Cancel button for close yhe HTML Source Editor window. DON'T CLICK the Update button!
- Go to the Knowledge Base page of your locale: Deutsch, Français, Español, or Português.
- Click on New Article.
- Choose Free form as a type of article and click Start Article.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- When you've finished your translation, clik Save & Request Review.
- Have someone review your work
- In this wiki page, mention the article is Ready to be reviewed.
- Reviewer, once done, must click Save & Request Publication.
- 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
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
In progress
Community translators please indicate articles that you are actively working on below.
| English | French | German | Portuguese | Spanish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to report a bug or request a feature | In internal review, see the draft here (below). | |||
Translated
Move links to translated articles here.
| English | French | German | Portuguese | Spanish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Standards | Normas de la comunidad (official translation). | |||
| Usernames | Benutzernamen | Los nombres de usuario Please, see below "Note 1". | ||
| How to contact customer support | Den Kunden-Support kontaktieren | |||
| 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.
Published Translations
Move links to translated and published articles here.
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
TBD.
Spanish
In translation:
- Account credentials
- Flagging an item on the Marketplace -> Reportar un ítem del Marketplace (March 28, 2011).
- Pending technical review of the English article: Avatar attachments -> Los anexos del avatar (March 29, 2011).
In review:
- How to report a bug or request a feature --> In internal review, see the draft here (below).
Ready to be published:
Published:
See above
- NOTE about Community Guidelines -> Artículo oficial de Linden Lab:Directrices de la participación en la comunidad (from this JIRA); (ready on March 25, 2011, published on March 29, 2001). Drafts: Las Normas de la Comunidad de Second Life (Lithium format); also in wiki format.
Portuguese
TBD.
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.