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=== How to translate efficiently? ===
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During all those translations, Slayer developed a few techniques to be faster at translating :
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* Start by copying the English article.
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* Use Google Translate to do a first translation of everything.
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* Improve that translation (fix sentences, translations of KSP-specific words...).
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* Add links to french articles
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To find the official translations of KSP words, these pages are useful :
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* [https://github.com/KSP-Localization/Squad-Translation/blob/master/Languages/en-us/dictionary.cfg KSP en-us dictionary] to find the ID of a specific word or sentence.
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* [https://github.com/KSP-Localization/Squad-Translation/blob/master/Languages/fr-fr/dictionary.cfg KSP fr dictionary] to find the translation of that ID in french. You can also find the dictionaries for other languages [https://github.com/KSP-Localization/Squad-Translation/blob/master/Languages here].

Revision as of 11:21, 26 April 2019

SlayerGames is a french Kerbal Space Program player. After discovering the game through YouTube videos, he decided to give it a try and loved the game, mostly because of its infinite possibilities and very active modding community. Real-life, Slayer is very interested by rocket science, and is excited by the recent SpaceX achievements.

Involvement in the Wiki Community

After using the Wiki for a while to learn KSP, Slayer decided to help the creators by translating articles to French, thus hopefully helping the french players who don't understand the English articles.

Here's a list of the pages which Slayer currently translated :

... and the list is hopefully going to grow more!

How to translate efficiently?

During all those translations, Slayer developed a few techniques to be faster at translating :

  • Start by copying the English article.
  • Use Google Translate to do a first translation of everything.
  • Improve that translation (fix sentences, translations of KSP-specific words...).
  • Add links to french articles

To find the official translations of KSP words, these pages are useful :