Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31829114-20180812231322/@comment-5754239-20180820043716

You make some good points.

The thing that's bothering me the most right now is that there doesn't seem to be enough people behind this. Yeah, I'm worried about that, too. I don't think there's any way to make the signal stronger, so to speak, and the project's ultimately up to the people who are going to work on it.

I believe a wiki needs at least 2 active translators, and at least one person to run the wiki, or at least patrol it for vandalism. I'd like to have a way for the wikis to communicate with each other. The team often interacts with the English wiki, so it'd be good to notify the other wikis if something changes. I also want to help the other wikis with any coding problems they have, since I'm the main implementer of our templates. However, I recently came across a group called the Wikia Language Brigade that seems to specialize in this very field, but I'm reluctant to bother them too much about this. I'd say to start working on translating once we get enough people to translate. I agree. I'm glad there's a team out there we could reach out to, though.

For aims, I think we should translate everything. Or at least as much as we can translate. The thing to work out would be what should be prioritized. It would be something like, main SiIvaGunner page first, major memes second, then lore, then different classifications of rips (mashup, melody swaps, etc), and then everything else. I'm not sure what we would do for a roadmap. Would we create a brand new version of the wiki from scratch with no pages beforehand, or would we begin by just translating individual pages one at a time and have them just as links on the original page and then create the wiki after there's enough pages for it? I completely agree about translating "everything", so to speak.

As for starting the wiki, I believe we can use the Special:Import and Special:Export functionality to copy the English wiki into another language, and use a Help:Bot to fix the renaming. However, this would restrict how the wiki's team could structure the pages and could result in some complications with the linking part.

So your plan is a good starting one. Make a new wiki, add stubs for important pages (with untranslated versions for placeholders), and do everything in this order: main page -> major memes -> lore articles -> classifications -> everything else

I think we should also have a section dedicated to translating the wiki, for asking questions, and for contacting other people. So probably just a new section on the forum, but like the forum would also be connected to the forums on other language versions of the wiki, if that's even possible. I'm not sure the interwiki-forum thing is possible, but we could have a "Translation" board on the Forum for that, or we could start a Discord server for it (niche as it may be). I'll look into interwiki-forums and see if it's possible.

A list of editors who are Translators on the Translate This Wiki page would help. A badge or a Userbox on a person's user page might encourage people to contribute and identify who is helping as well.