World Language Selector

What is this?
This suggestion is to help people who don't speak
english and it could help people understand the lore
and the quest better.

How Could This Help?
It would help people who don't speak english so they
can do the quest and enjoy the game and it could boost the
player count and make it a more global server getting people
from around the world

How Would It Work?
Type /language
It will give you a menu to choose from
several languages (Arabic, English, Spanish, Dutch, ect.)
And when you selected one it would change the language of the
Quests, Quest book, NPC Text and more

How Could We Do It?
Select people from a application to help translate
the text. Wa'll it would take a while it would be worth it
and the people who help translate could get a special rank
or Armor.
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4. Has it been suggested before? (there are some things that have been suggested time and time again, it is better to look through suggestions first before making one just in-case someone already asked for it)

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/language.209583/
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/language.149655/
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/language.143326/
+Numerous threads I'm too lazy to find

Also, a whole bunch of languages already have their community translated wiki pages

 

They don't go into that much detail and I wanted to explain how it would work and how it could help

 

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/wynncraft-wiki-translation-hub.211555/
Closest thing we have
(I used to run that project)

 

You have access to the forums' search box, so use it if you want to find more.

Also take into consideration;
2. Is it possible? (ask yourself if what you are suggesting is actually possible in Wynncraft and can be done)

 

In order to help you understand how difficult this would be, let’s simplify it a little.
There are about 110 quests.
Let’s say, they all have at least 50 words. And that we plan to get 7 more languages.
That means you will have to translate 50 words at least 7 times.
That’s at least 350 words to translate for each quest.
Not to mention a lot of quests have HUNDREDS of words in total
See where this is going?
Add discoveries, items, the code needed to detect languages and change texts based on languages, and we have a pretty impossible suggestion.

Also, this is a colossal underestimation. Really doing this would be way bigger than i alredy make it seem.

 

Translating is the easy party

 

Yes I do agree its a hard task they could just translate the quest book and what the quest say (Not meaning the NPCs or text)
And there would be multiple translators

 

It's not that hard to translate languages, especially since Salted speaks French and multiple CT members are bilingual.

 

And the translation project is active again

 

nice

 

If you are going to do that, then let's talk about the fact that they are all over the month mark :p

Still, I do think this would be interesting to have something in game to change languages, it is way better...
Having "ranks" or some kind of recognition would definitevely make the quest translation process go faster.

Yes, it CAN be done
What you need is
- A bit more coding to add a /language
- Informations to be written when you put your cursor on the quest to see if it is translated or not.
- An actual group of people willing to translate

The only problem would be that they are already working on stuff and may not be able to do that
So why not a [TRANSLATOR] rank with people dedicated to that... That's what is up with the current translation hub, but the problem is barely anyone goes there... Seriously, I've been talking to many french people,
80% of them do not know of the translation hub
10% of them don't go there/really rarely
5% use it often
5% translate in it

I definitevely would love this to be added in game
There's already a nice amount of quest translated, so the work wouldn't have to be done from 0

 

Alot of the items are made up or arn't english and
Big servers (Like Hypixel, Minecade, ect.) Have a translated information and they have way more stuff to translate.
It does seem like a big stretch but, With rewards and helpful people it can be done and like Dr Zeps said alot of the CDs and other Staff
Are bilingual (MrSebbelonien is a good example)

 

Translating is really easy

Its like reading something than writing it down again



Hard part is implementing and finding people willing to translate

 

There could be an application for people willing to do it

 

It's already a thing

 

Its already a thing but still few people have the ability to be fluently able to translate and / or willing to spend time to translate


It's slow going but we are slowly translating the quests and we're translating faster than quests get released [I believe] so eventually we should be able to tackle major languages

 

I'd probably be way more active on the translation hub if I knew it was gonna be added in game