PZwiki:Project Translations

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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		Article count	Speakers count	Notes
	wiki	game
English (US)	en	EN	2,999	8	base language
English (UK)	en-gb	EN UK	0	0	not present
Afrikaans	af	AF	0	1	not present
Catalan	ca	CA	0	0	not present
Czech	cs	CS	7	0
Danish	da	DA	0	0	not present
Estonian	ee	EE	0	0	not present
German	de	DE	14	2
Spanish	es	ES	102	3
Spanish (Argentina)	es-ar	AR	0	0	not present
Finnish	fi	FI	0	1	not present
French	fr	FR	87	5
Hungarian	hu	HU	1	0
Indonesian	id	ID	0	0	not present
Italian	it	IT	15	0
Japanese	ja	JP	100	1
Korean	ko	KO	22	1
Dutch	nl	NL	1	0
Norwegian	no	NO	8	0
Polish	pl	PL	31	3
Tagalog	ph	PH	0	0	not present
Portugese	pt	PT	2	0
Brazilian Portugese	pt-br	PTBR	66	2
Romanian	ro	RO	0	0	not present
Russian	ru	RU	88	9
Thai	th	TH	10	2
Turkish	tr	TR	320	1
Ukrainian	uk	UA	57	2
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-hans	CN	120	5
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-hant	CH	51	6

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).

Translation progress

You can check the progress of the translations below by clicking on the language name.

Also it is encouraged to add new tasks or cross out completed tasks on the certain language section below to help the translation progress.

Czech

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.
• Needs translation of new links and general checking.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

German

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.
• Needs translation of new links and general checking.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Templates

• Replace old navbox templates with the new ones.

Spanish

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

French

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Others

• Move pages (including categories) to subpages of English page.

Hungarian

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Italian

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Japanese

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Korean

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Dutch

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation. (Affiliates missing).

Norwegian

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Polish

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Translations

• A lot of pages are terribly outdated (based on 0.2.0).

Portugese

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation (falls back to pt-br, Affiliates missing).

Others

• Make sure if all old Portugese pages are indeed not pt-br (should be mostly done now).

Brazilian Portugese

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation.

Others

• Make sure if all old Portugese pages are indeed not pt-br (should be mostly done now).

I checked and it seems that even these pages are in pt-br... Sarah52 (talk) 03:39, 22 April 2024 (BST)

• Change the sections "Uso" to "Utilidade" from all pages that have it (eng equivalent: use to utility, as usage in portuguese "usagem" is not a really common word)

Russian

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation

Templates

• Replace old navbox templates with the new ones.

Others

• Move pages (including categories) to subpages of English page.

Thai

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation

Turkish

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation

Ukrainian

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.
• Needs some checkups (some translation differs to what is in GitHub) – still needed?.

Sidebar

• Needs translation

Chinese (Simplified)

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation

帮助

• 图片
• 表格

模板

载具

• 车辆

地点

• 地点

Others

• 模组开发
• 生存指南
• 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)

Main page

• Needs moving to the new format.

Sidebar

• Needs translation (will fall back to zh-hans).

Others

• Move remaining pages and links from /zh and /zh-Hant to /zh-hant.

Contributors

Want to be a contributor? You can add the appropriate Userbox so you can be properly counted toward the contributor count.

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.