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 Lithium
3. Open one article in Lithium
4. Click on Edit
5. Open the html editor in Lithium
6. Copy the text and html tags in the window that opened
7. 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). If you do not use a localized screenshot...
8. . Cancel the Edit process in the US article
9. Go to the KB page of your locale, and click on New Article. Choose Free form as a type of article
10. The editor opens, and you can paste the content of the US article - Add the subject by translating the English title. Add labels, choose the same as the ones in English. Labels next to the About in the US article.
11. Proceed to translating the article, respecting the original layout.
12. Add screenshot if necessary
13. Preview and save for review
    • Note by Irene Muni (added April 3, 2001): There is no button "Preview", at least for me.
14. Have someone review your work
15. In the wiki page, mention the article is Ready to be reviewed.
16. Reviewer, once done, Submit the article for publication.

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

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	Spanish	Portuguese
About the Second Life Knowledge Base Usernames			Acerca de la Base de Conocimientos de Second Life Los nombres de usuario

Translated

Move links to translated articles here.

English	French	German	Spanish	Portuguese
Community Standards			Las Normas de la Comunidad; also in Lithium format (March 25, 2011).

Published Translations

Move links to translated and published articles here.

English	French	German	Spanish	Portuguese
Release notes How to contact customer support 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	Notas de la versión Cómo contactar con el servicio de Soporte al cliente Please, see below "Note 1". Artículo oficial de Linden Lab:Directrices de la participación en la comunidad	- - Linden Lab informa:Regras de participação em comunidades

• Note 1. The KB article Cómo contactar con el servicio de Soporte al cliente is written WITHOUT HEADERS (<h2>) due to a known problem. You can get the html code of that article WITH the tags for headers at the end of this wiki document

Target languages

List translated articles here when they are:

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

German

TBD.

French

TBD.

Spanish

In translation:

• Account credentials
• About the Second Life Knowledge Base
• 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:

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.