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--- wiki_potential_rules:multilingualism [2023-01-13 17:43] – created 56independent
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 ''Note:'' This policy page is not community-approved yet. These rules hold no value yet.
-Advtrains is formed of a diverse worldwide community. This means that a large portion of the people working  on advtrains are multilingual. If you wish to work on translations:
+Advtrains is formed of a diverse worldwide community. This means that a large portion of the people working  on Advtrains are multilingual. If you wish to work on translations:
-  * Keep to pages which should not change over time, such as those in [[events|Events]]. Try to find the most past-tense pages
-  * Put the language code in square brackets before the name of the article, for example ''[zh-hans]
-  * Keep the translation as accurate to the original as possible; translation should be an invisible art
-  * Provide English and your language translations of any discussion about page content as a whole, across languages
-The reason not to translate documentation is that there are no systems in place to allow easy syncing of language-versions, resulting in one version potentially becoming outdated and potentially even inferior to English, resulting in a reader migration away (using machine translation to access updated text) from that version, only making the problem worse.
+  * Keep to pages which should not change over time, such as those in [[events:start|Events]]. Try to find the most past-tense pages. Translations of documentation should be avoided as there is no system to keep translations in sync.
+  * Put the (lowercase) language code in square brackets before the name of the article.
+  * Keep the translation as accurate to the original as possible; translation should be an invisible art.
+  * Discussions should be kept in English; discussions on multiple language pages can become easily out of sync if not updated quickly enough.
+  * Translations to Advtrains' in-game UI is currently managed on the ''l10n'' branch. You can contribute there by [[:start#contributing|sending patches to the mailing list]]. Please read ''advtrains/locale/README.md'' first.