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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.
 
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 : [[Kerbol/fr|Kerbol]], [[Moho/fr|Moho]], [[Eve/fr|Eve]], [[Gilly/fr|Gilly]], [[Kerbin/fr|Kerbin]], [[Mun/fr|Mun]], [[Minmus/fr|Minmus]], [[Duna/fr|Duna]], [[Synchronous orbit/fr|Synchronous Orbit]], [[Atmosphere/fr|Atmosphere]], [[Kerbal_Astronomical_Society/fr|Kerbal Astronomical Society]], [[Encounter/fr|Encounter]]...
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Here's a list of the pages which Slayer currently translated :
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:''→ See [[Special:Contributions/SlayerGames|contribs]]''
  
... and the list is hopefully going to grow more!
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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].
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== Pages to be deleted ==
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''I'm keeping track of pages that should be deleted here. If an admin visits my page, you know what to do :)''
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* [[Nalvall/fr]] : only contains a copy of the English article Navball.
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* [[Travelling to Minmus]] : duplicate of [[Tutorial:How to get to Minmus]], with less content.

Revision as of 08:38, 2 June 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 :

→ See contribs

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 :

Pages to be deleted

I'm keeping track of pages that should be deleted here. If an admin visits my page, you know what to do :)