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swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:15 am
by shafirsabbag
Hello. I´m interested in translating any media on Baka-tsuki into swedish, including articles, rules and of course, light novels. I don´t have any previous knowledge with Light Novels, except for being familiar with the Sword Art Online anime adaptation of the Light Novels, which is the reason of my interest in this distribution of media to begin with. That means that I don´t have any specific Light Novel serie in mind that I want to translate. Instead, my objective is to translate all Light Novels available on Baka-tsuki in alphabetical order. From A to Z. However, I´m not familiar with the registration process that is required. Could someone please be so kind and shed some light over this in the form of a brief explanation?

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:30 pm
by Cindynka
Hello! Welcome here.

As for the translating: you might want to try read one or two LNs before you actually start translating them. It's much easier to translate the content you already know.
Registration process is explained here. If you still have some questions after reading it, feel free to ask.
You say you want to translate all the novels... But man, that would be hell of work! A single volume is usually +-200 pages long in Word and some of the LNs have even more than 20 volumes. I guess you would like to start with something shorter. Look for an ongoing serie or one volume novel. Also, you might be interested in a novel that has an anime adaptation because you already know the story.
I would recommend starting with this novel since it's one volume and it's really nice story.

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:33 am
by shafirsabbag
Thank you for taking your time. My only concern is whether or not I have comprehended the information correctly. Could you please analyse the layout on this page and give me feedback accurate to my actions? http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index ... onventions

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:41 am
by Simon
Moved the project away from the Baka-Tsuki Name Space as it's not intended for translations.

You can find the project page at https://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/inde ... Swedish%29

Don't link the Swedish chapters to already existing English.

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:41 am
by Cindynka
shafirsabbag wrote:Thank you for taking your time. My only concern is whether or not I have comprehended the information correctly. Could you please analyse the layout on this page and give me feedback accurate to my actions? http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index ... onventions
Now that Simon moved it, it's fine. You should create a new topic for the project here in Alternative Language Forum.
Create the registration page and then you can start translating. Just be careful with the links, so they refer to the right pages.

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:46 am
by shafirsabbag
It's the redirection of the links I find it to be little tricky. How am I supposed to insert the desired link into the assigned chapter?

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:56 am
by Cthaeh
shafirsabbag wrote:It's the redirection of the links I find it to be little tricky. How am I supposed to insert the desired link into the assigned chapter?
In the edit version of the page, your links originally looked like.

[[Absolute Duo:Registration_Page|Registration]]
and
[[Absolute Duo:Volume 1 Chapter 1|Kapitel 1 『Till den här Skölden』]]

The part that was to the left of the vertical line "|" was the same as the English pages, so that's where the link went. You can use compare revisions in the page history to see that Simon updated them to...

[[Absolute Duo (Swedish):Registration_Page|Registration]]
and
[[Absolute Duo (Swedish):Volume 1 Chapter 1|Kapitel 1 『Till den här Skölden』]]

By changing the part to the left of "|", Simon ensured that the link went to a different page (a yet to be created Swedish version of the page).

Re: swedish translation of light novels contribution

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:19 am
by Simon
Sigh,
Wiki Formating and Wiki Links. If this doesn't help...