PZwiki:Project Translations

Project Translations

PZwiki:Project Translations

Leader

Vibrance (talk)

Category

Languages

Status

Active

Welcome to Project Translations, a PZwiki project that aims to improve translations of the wiki pages.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on our discussion page.

Languages for the wiki and the game

Language name	Language code (wiki)	Language code (game)	Main page	Main page translation	Sidebar translation	Article count	Speakers count
English (US)	en	EN	Project Zomboid Wiki	base language	base language	2,998	n/a
English (UK)	en-gb	EN UK (unavailable in game)	not present	not present	Falls back to en	0	n/a
Afrikaans	af	AF (unavailable in game)	not present	not present	needs translations	0	1
Catalan	ca	CA	not present	not present	needs translations	0	0
Czech	cs	CS	Project Zomboid Wiki	DONE (except newly added Noise link)	needs translations	7	0
Danish	da	DA	not present	not present	needs translations	0	0
Estonian	ee	EE (unavailable in game)	not present	not present	needs translations	0	0
German	de	DE	Project Zomboid Wiki	WIP	DONE	14	2
Spanish	es	ES	Project Zomboid Wiki	some missing translations, needs checking	DONE	102	3
Spanish (Argentina)	es-ar*	AR	not present	not present	unsupported by MediaWiki	0	n/a
Finnish	fi	FI	not present	not present	needs translations	0	1
French	fr	FR	Project Zomboid Wiki/fr	some missing translations, needs checking	DONE	87	5
Hungarian	hu	HU	Project Zomboid Wiki/hu	needs translations	needs translations	1	0
Indonesian	id	ID	not present	not present	needs translations	0	0
Italian	it	IT	Project Zomboid Wiki/it	some missing translations, needs checking	DONE	15	0
Japanese	ja	JP	Project Zomboid Wiki/ja	some missing translations, needs checking	needs translations	100	1
Korean	ko	KO	Project Zomboid Wiki/ko	some missing translations, needs checking	needs translations	22	1
Dutch	nl	NL	Project Zomboid Wiki/nl	DONE	DONE (except Affiliates)	1	0
Norwegian	no	NO	Project Zomboid Wiki/no	needs translations	needs translations	8	0
Polish	pl	PL	Project Zomboid Wiki	DONE	DONE	31	3
Tagalog	ph	PH	not present	not present	needs translations	0	0
Portugese	pt	PT	Project Zomboid Wiki/pt	some missing translations, needs checking	Falls back to pt-br	2	0
Brazilian Portugese	pt-br	PTBR	Project Zomboid Wiki/pt-br	DONE	DONE (except Affiliates)	65	2
Romanian	ro	RO	not present	not present	needs translations	0	0
Russian	ru	RU	Project Zomboid Wiki	some missing translations, needs checking	needs translations	88	9
Thai	th	TH	วิกิโปรเจกต์ซอมบอยด์	some missing translations, needs checking	DONE	10	2
Turkish	tr	TR	Project Zomboid Wiki	DONE	DONE	320	1
Ukrainian	uk	UA	Project Zomboid Wiki	DONE mostly, though there are a few inconsistencies	needs translations	57	2
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-hans	CN	僵尸毁灭工程 wiki	DONE	DONE	120	5
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-hant	CH	殭屍毀滅工程 wiki	some missing translations, needs checking	Falls back to zh-hans	51	6

• Despite Spanish (AR) being a separate language in the game, the Argentinian Spanish is not supported language by MediaWiki, the only other other Spanish language currently available being es-formal. There is also Latin American Spanish (es-419) which is used for some MediaWiki translations, but it's not supported for the interface.

Job board

Translation guide

Add a guide for translators, to Help:Contents? We currently have what's in PZwiki:Language policy and Help:Style guide, mentioned briefly on Discord.

1. Add instructions on how to change language in MediaWiki.
2. Add instructions on how to translate main page.
3. Add instructions on how to translate the sidebar

Further improve the translation help? (most of the stuff that came to mind, except maybe some usage examples are already mentioned, plus it will be improved slowly over time though)

Templates

1. Update Navboxes and more templates to use Template:T (links) or Template:Translation (raw translation).
   1. Another method is to pass all the text that needs to be translated to the subpage through parameters and hand it over to the main template for combination.
      1. This method preserves the translation of the template document.
      2. It's easier to transfer when Translate extension is applied in the future.
2. Translate and improve notice boxes.
   1. Latest changes to translating notice boxes use Template:Translation, needs to be improved by:
      1. Use simplified string to get text, e.g. notice_improve_text instead of sections of the notice box.
      2. Get string from the language code subpage of the template.
   2. Create notice box for: "want to translate this template? see here", with link to the language code subpage. See Template:Translation guide.
3. Update {{Img item}} template with new languages.
4. Figure out a way to keep how many pages are in each language, User:Vaileasys should have template for that? Maybe update count of the pages in PZwiki:Community portal? (requires all pages to be subpage of the relevant page).
5. Create notice box for auto translated pages (i.e. Google Translate, DeepL, etc.) stating: "⚠ This page auto translated from English, translation errors possible."

Miscellaneous

1. Populate Template:Translation with content from public translations and start utilizing the template more (in progress; template should have a good documentation now).
2. Add new languages to the wiki (especially the ones that the game comes with).
3. Move pages and categories to appropriate places according to the Help:Style guide (This will need coordination with Project Navigation and Categories).
   1. The auto-translation template is required to automatically categorize pages and avoid adding categories manually.
4. Move and use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} for all remaining non-English pages. (Mentioned in translation guide)
5. Fix Project Zomboid Wiki, Project Zomboid Wiki/hu, วิกิโปรเจกต์ซอมบอยด์, Project Zomboid Wiki and 僵尸毁灭工程 wiki displaying their titles.
6. Project Zomboid Wiki/it, Project Zomboid Wiki/ja, Project Zomboid Wiki/ko, Project Zomboid Wiki/pt, Project Zomboid Wiki, วิกิโปรเจกต์ซอมบอยด์, Project Zomboid Wiki, 殭屍毀滅工程 wiki, 僵尸毁灭工程 wiki needs updating links with {{MainPage Gameplay}} and {{MainPage WorldObjects}} templates.
7. Figure out a way to easily update translations whenever main page changes, indicate which version it's based it? oldid?
8. Don't use [[page|translations]] for pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE}}. (recommended)
9. Use {{Subpage}} template instead of manually inputting /xx for languages. (in progress)

Technical (sysop)

1. Figure out how to translate some interface elements based on the language chosen in MediaWiki (sidebar, site notice, footer…).
   1. Most interface elements can be translated by wiki admins via Mediawiki interface pages, using the language code subpage [1].
   2. All other elements require setting up by a system admin, such as Namespaces and custom footers (default footers can be translated as above [2]).
2. Add full-fledge language support, such as Wikipedia or other MediaWikis? (wiki farm; extra maintenance burden).
   1. To be like MediaWiki, this would require the Translate extension (evaluate if it's needed for our use case).

Articles in need of improvement

Translation needed	Tasks
Czech	Project Zomboid Wiki needs translation. Translate sidebar.
German	Remove or translate pages that are entirely in English. Replace old navbox templates with the new ones. Update Project Zomboid Wiki to use new layout. Translate sidebar.
Spanish	Project Zomboid Wiki needs translations updates. Translate sidebar.
French	Replace old templates with the new ones. Move pages (including categories) to subpages of English page. Project Zomboid Wiki/fr needs translations updates. Translate sidebar.
Hungarian	Project Zomboid Wiki/hu needs translation. Translate sidebar.
Italian	Project Zomboid Wiki/it needs translation updates. Translate sidebar.
Japanese	Project Zomboid Wiki/ja needs translation updates. Translate sidebar.
Korean	Project Zomboid Wiki/ko needs translation updates. Translate sidebar.
Dutch	Update Project Zomboid Wiki/nl to use new layout.
Norwegian	Update Project Zomboid Wiki/no to use new layout. Project Zomboid Wiki/no needs translations. Translate sidebar.
Polish	Project Zomboid Wiki (just minor checkups).
Portugese	Project Zomboid Wiki/pt needs translations updates (apparently it was mostly pt-br, so needs checking and updates). Make sure if all old Portugese pages are indeed not pt-br (should be mostly done now). Translate sidebar.
Brazilian Portugese	Project Zomboid Wiki/pt-br needs translations updates. Check if all links point to pt-br and not pt (should be mostly done now).
Russian	Move pages (including categories) to subpages of English page. Replace old navbox templates with the new ones. Project Zomboid Wiki needs translation updates. Translate sidebar.
Thai	วิกิโปรเจกต์ซอมบอยด์ needs translation updates.
Turkish	Project Zomboid Wiki needs translations. Translate sidebar.
Ukrainian	Project Zomboid Wiki needs some checkups (some translation differs to what is in GitHub). Translate sidebar.
Chinese (Simplified)	僵尸毁灭工程 wiki needs translation updates. Move remaining pages and links from /zh-cn and /zh-Hans to /zh-hans (seems to be finished, unless something's missed still).
Chinese (Traditional)	殭屍毀滅工程 wiki needs translation updates. Move remaining pages and links from /zh and /zh-Hant to /zh-hant. Translate sidebar.

Userboxes

Just copy and paste the syntax onto your user page to display your contribution to this project.

Syntax	Userbox
{{User project|Translations|leader}}	XXX is the project leader of Translations.
{{User project|Translations}}	XXX is a contributor of Translations.

Contributors

Want to be a contributor? You can add your name below. Also, please add the appropriate Userbox so you can be properly counted toward the contributor count.

• Faalagorn (talk)
• Vaileasys (talk)
• Vibrance (talk)