Internationalization And Localization [30+ Supporters]

This is a repost after 4 years.

This suggestion/idea is somehow unpopular, and when I see it being suggested in the forums, all the responses would be “this would not work” or saying “this would require separate servers”. I know there is a thread on the front page right now with the exact same suggestion, but here is my take on how it would work.

I’d say this would be pretty easy to implement. See Minecraft, the base game Wynncraft runs on. All of its important strings are given a key for translation, and the game looks up the key on a map encoded in json format to find the string to display. All translations are submitted by the community to Crowdin, which makes it fast to update.

Wynncraft could adopt a similar system. Quest dialogue, item names, item lore, ids, mob names, NPC names, status messages, and many more could be assigned keys, and the key could be looked up from a json/properties file of the client’s desired language before sending the text to the client. If the key hasn’t been translated yet, it will default back to English, just like Minecraft does. The only kinds of text I don’t see this would work with is sign text, but I don’t see them being used that much in Wynn. To improve speed of the lookup, different types of text, or even different quests, could be given their own lookup tables. The only downside to this would be memory usage, but I doubt that would be a significant issue. All of these could be put onto a platform like Crowdin or Weblate for the community to translate.

A certain other server already does translations, while I argue translating commands is a very bad idea, it has proven doable.

I may add more detail when I have time. I might write up some possible implementations.

Btw if you vote "i eat bees" it counts as "yes"

 

Look at every text in wynncraft and translate it.

Also who would do the translations? CT? They have more work than I could imagine. Community? Prepare for chaos.
It isn't entirely about being impossible to implement, it just isn't worth it.

 

The CT will only have to supply the original English text, and the community would do the translations. More specifically, I envision the quest translation teams to take up this task and maybe moderate translations.

 

As a former head of the translation team I can tell you that it's volunteers that run it (not even CT) we aren't that active lately tho and we post the translations on the wiki

 

As a head translator that didnt translated a quest in few months and nobody noticed I undersrand you.

Btw what language?

________________________________

How it would work? The CT would share a file and every translator would have to edit it? They would create google document?

 

Check the Minecraft Crowdin translation site
I’m not sure I’m allowed to post the link

 

Looks good.
And yes, you are allowed to post links

 

There were a lot of small teams, I translated into Hebrew

 

If possible this would be great, but I would be concerned that translations wouldn't be done soon enough that this could be offered for more than a handful of languages, and even those, sparsely. That said, it'd be better to try offer this than to just say it can't be done without giving it a shot, at least assuming technically limitations won't stop it.

 

Please add this
bump

 

I have no idea what any of those words mean because I don't speak Indian tech support but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a good idea

 

Bumping because this can bring in more people

 

New bump I don't want this thread to die

 

Changed title to “internationalization” because it better describes the suggestion

 

Freeee bump

 

Please add this!

 

please consider
bump

 

i still really want this
bump

 

please consider!