PZwiki:Project Translations
Welcome to Project Translations, a PZwiki project that aims to improve translations of the wiki pages. If you just want to help translating the wiki, then go to this page for help.
Since PZwiki is an English wiki, the main language of the wiki is English. However, the game is available in many languages, and we want to make the wiki available in as many languages as possible. Currently only a few pages are translated, and we need a better way to manage the translations, which is why this project was created.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on our discussion page.
Anyone is welcome to join by adding the contributor userbox to their profile from the contributors section below.
Language name | Language code | Article count | Speakers count | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
wiki | game | ||||
English (US) | en | EN | 2,815 | 8 | base language |
English (UK) | en-gb | EN UK[1] | 0 | 0 | not present |
Afrikaans | af | AF[1] | 6 | 1 | |
Catalan | ca | CA | 0 | 0 | not present |
Czech | cs | CS | 7 | 0 | |
Danish | da | DA | 0 | 0 | not present |
Estonian | ee | EE[1] | 0 | 0 | not present |
German | de | DE | 14 | 2 | |
Spanish | es | ES | 104 | 3 | |
Spanish (Argentina) | es-ar[2] | 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 | 19 | 0 | |
Japanese | ja | JP | 101 | 1 | |
Korean | ko | KO | 22 | 1 | |
Dutch | nl | NL | 1 | 0 | |
Norwegian | no | NO | 9 | 0 | |
Polish | pl | PL | 34 | 3 | |
Tagalog | ph | PH | 0 | 0 | not present |
Portugese | pt | PT | 2 | 0 | |
Brazilian Portugese | pt-br | PTBR | 43 | 1 | |
Romanian | ro | RO | 0 | 0 | not present |
Russian | ru | RU | 88 | 8 | |
Thai | th | TH | 10 | 2 | |
Turkish | tr | TR | 177 | 1 | |
Ukrainian | uk | UA | 57 | 2 | |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-hans | CN | 120 | 5 | |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-hant | CH | 52 | 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
- This section is about a general task list for the whole project. For the progress of specific languages, see Help:Translation progress.
Most visited pages
To start translating the wiki, the following pages are the first to translate:
- MediaWiki:Sidebar - This can only be edited by a PZwiki administrator. Please contact one if you want to translate this page.
- Project Zomboid Wiki
- PZwiki:Community portal
Please check the pages above for your language and translate/update them if they are not translated yet.
Pages ready to be translated
Since the wiki is under a major cleanup, some pages are not ready to be translated yet. Here is a list for pages that are ready to be translated. The reason that pages are not ready to be translated maybe related to other projects. Please wait until the cleanup is complete before continuing to translate the page.
Help pages
As the translating process is updated, help pages need to be updated as well. Basic editing help should be linked to MediaWiki, PZwiki will only have pages that are specific to the wiki.
- Considering creating a translation guide for the wiki.
- Since the language bar is considering to be removed, the statistics of each language will not be counted. So we may need to create a new page to show the statistics of each language instead of #Translation progress (e.g., Translation progress from TF2 wiki).
Translation guide
- About inner links in translatable pages, it's recommended to use
{{ll}}
instead of[[foo|bar]]
to make links automatically translated.- For free links and inner links to untranslatable pages, just use wikitext links.
- About template code link in translatable pages, it's recommended to use
{{tll}}
instead of<code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code>
to simplify the code and make it easier to translate. - All translation pages should have
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
to display the translated title of the page.- Pages describing the ingame items' translation should be consistent with the game's translation.
- All translation pages should have a
{{Revision}}
template to check if the page is up-to-date with the English page. (This mbox seems not that useful as expected, maybe remove it in the future.)
Templates
- Template:Translation guide - Currently all template pages should be translatable, it's recommended to add this template all English template pages' documentation.
- Template:Documentation/sandbox - Since the documentation for most templates is not very long, and it is difficult to maintain having translated pages for each template's documentation, an attempt is being made to merge all template documents with template pages.
{{Documentation}}
will be replaced by{{Documentation/sandbox}}
eventually.
- Template:Documentation/sandbox - Since the documentation for most templates is not very long, and it is difficult to maintain having translated pages for each template's documentation, an attempt is being made to merge all template documents with template pages.
- Making all templates translatable using the data from their language code subpages with
{{tt}}
instead of using{{Translation}}
.Update Template:Navbox.- Update Template:Infobox - see User:Vaileasys/Sandbox.
Update Template:Mbox - see PZwiki:Mboxes.- Update Template:Crafting.
Since the sidebar has a "Language" section that links to other language versions of current page, the original{{Languages}}
template can be removed from all pages.{{Translation}}
should only contain essential translation data that will be widely used.- Replace uses of
{{T}}
,{{Subpage}}
and{{Img_item}}
templates with{{ll}}
and{{lcs}}
,retire(just waiting for template removal), (ideally keep all the translations already done), ideally before language extension will be tested.{{Translation}}
- Figure out if
{{ll}}
can use the sort key when used for categories.
Miscellaneous
- Add new languages to the wiki (especially the ones that the game comes with).
- When all the language main pages will be updated to the new layout, clean up all the old templates remaining after old main page except screenshots which may be useful for later (decide which ones to keep and potentially clear them). Currently not fully removing all of the pages just in case red link translations will want to be re-purposed.
Technical (sysop)
- Figure out how to translate some interface elements based on the language chosen in MediaWiki (
sidebar, site notice (heavily cached),footer…).- Most interface elements can be translated by wiki admins via Mediawiki interface pages, using the language code subpage mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar/en.
- All other elements require setting up by a system admin, such as Namespaces and custom footers (default footers can be translated as above: mw:Manual:Footer).
- Better translation support, decide on Template:Languages removal, test MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle.
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.
Click each header to hide/show each language progression!
Afrikaans
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
French
Main page
Needs moving to the new format.
Sidebar
Needs translation.
Others
Move pages (including categories) to subpages of English page.
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Dutch
Norwegian
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 (Affiliates missing).
Others
- Make sure if all old Portugese pages are indeed not pt-br (should be mostly done now).
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
Turkish
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)
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.
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
You can find the list of current contributors in the Project Translations contributor category.
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 below onto your user page to display your contribution to this project.
{{User project|Translations}}