Team Fortress Wiki:Translators' noticeboard

This page can be used to discuss or announce any topics related to Team Fortress Wiki translation. Translators should this page to keep track of news or announcements (either by clicking or the tab at the top of the page).

You can also use this page to post questions or ask for help with translation. Note that most discussion related to a particular language should take place on its progress page.

See also

• Help:Language translation – guide to language translation
• Team Fortress Wiki:Translation progress – individual languages' progress so far
• Category:Team Fortress Wiki translation – other related pages

Resources

• Help:Translation switching – using {{lang}} to show multiple languages stored in a template
• Help:Editing – basic editing help

Other

• Team Fortress Wiki:Discussion – our main discussion page
• #tfwiki IRC channel (how to connect)

Discussion

Language forwards

I've been noticing a number of redirects to Romanian pages recently; specifically Ospitalitatea Sudica (forwards to Southern Hospitality/ro), Casca de Miner (forwards to Mining Light/ro), Craniul Cadavrului (forwards to Cadaver's Cranium/ro). What's the policy on this? I can see a bunch of problems appearing if we get an item called "The Stranger" (which would conflict with L'Etranger), or if a number of languages share the same name for an item ("Hatte" is Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for "Hats"), which would require disambiguation pages, forwarding to each individual language page. The problem I'm seeing with this solution is a bunch of unmaintained and orphaned pages, leaving the Wiki in disrepair. ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 09:25, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm talking as Romanian Speaker. In Romanian these situations are not likly to happen. I can't be blamed for other languages similarities. And regarded as redirects, i saw others before started doing mine. -- Nightbox _{(t s)} 09:28, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I understand that from our discussion in IRC, which is why I ask a standardised policy on the issue, so other translators know how to act. ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 09:29, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't see a problem with them as long as they are categorized properly (just made {{R lang}}) so they can be looked after easier. If, to take your example, Hatte is made as a redirect for the Danish Hats page first, then the other pages should just do Hatte which is what everyone has been doing so far. seb26 [talk] 09:32, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

The problem I see with this "solution" is that, say [[Hatte]] is made to forward to [[Hats/da]], and [[Flammekaster]] forwards to [[Flame thrower/sv]]. Then we have a serious consistency issue, which I think would be damaging to the integrity of the Wiki, and to the quality of it overall. ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 09:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)