Despite the abundance of information in the FAQ there are still people popping into irc asking why their beatmaps don't work, or how to submit a beatmap to the site, or whatever. I think part of the problem might be due to the fact that not everyone is fluent in English (but we forgive you for that), so~

Would anyone here be interested in helping to translate the osu! FAQ into any languages they are capable? We are a rather diverse community, and I think this would help a number of new players out.

Do you mean this? http://osu-ppy-sh.jeuxcrack.net/index.php?p=faq

Indeed.

I can translate it to Greek, but I expect you would prefer languages spoken by at least a few hundred million people, right?

I can roughly translate it to Traditional Chinese. But after Writing, it needs serious editing.

shinn wrote: 1273p

I can roughly translate it to Traditional Chinese. But after Writing, it needs serious editing.

Same here

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eirrol wrote: 4x2445

Peppy should do Japanese. I'll do Chinese.

I don't think Offset should be translate in "弱起小节开始处". Can we translate together?

IDK....

I'm not very fluent in Chinese...

eirrol wrote: 4x2445

Peppy should do Japanese.

Interestingly enough, I don't think there are that many Japanese players around.

I can help check the Chinese translation, but like shinn I'm not that fluent.

@echo: We should look at databasing the site's content so we can easily add translations for all this static-ish content.

er sez: SWEDISH TIME >:3

I can do Russian

I relly like the idea, I can translate it to Spanish, just me

I`ll translate it to Polish because we want moar Polish players so we need Polish FAQ. (lol)

I'm thinking we should bring this up at the next community meeting and organize how we're going to do it.

I think just stick it in a (new) hidden forum.

I've already started by ing the FAQ, translating it in Dreamweaver.

If you're translating it text is all we need.

Echo49 wrote: 5o343r

If you're translating it text is all we need.

Does it mean I only must edit it and save it as plain text (.txt) or what? I started too and I have done 70% aprox...

Well, HTML is fine, but text just saves you a lot of work

Echo49 wrote: 5o343r

Well, HTML is fine, but text just saves you a lot of work

But I use a WYSIWYG editor so I just change the text without entering in code...

I can translate the FAQs to Spanish. If I can help, please, tell me

Hymake wrote: 76o4z

I can translate the FAQs to Spanish. If I can help, please, tell me

Actually I am translating it to Spanish, although if you want to help, you are welcome! me!

Well, I could volunteer to translate stuff into Finnish, but I sort of already assume that anyone who ends up here already has a firm enough grasp of English not to need Finnish documentation/anything.

Such is our country. Blah.

Fraeon wrote: 1r4a19

Well, I could volunteer to translate stuff into Finnish, but I sort of already assume that anyone who ends up here already has a firm enough grasp of English not to need Finnish documentation/anything.

Such is our country. Blah.

Meh, most people do. Just do it for the sake of completion. :>

Bragging rights, etc. I don't see why any language should be left out if we have the bilingual speakers for it.

Has anybody already done an italian translation?
I can do it... Do I only need to translate it in a .txt and then email it to peppy? If so I'm gonna start it right now

Olinad wrote: 3d6s66

Has anybody already done an italian translation?
I can do it... Do I only need to translate it in a .txt and then email it to peppy? If so I'm gonna start it right now

That's the idea

Ok I'm gonna do it as early as possible

Chinese?

It'd be a good one to have; there are quite a few regulars that speak chinese. Shinn might've already gotten started on it; you might wanna double check/work with him.

I'm kinda full right now, so I can't really help

I promise to help during summer though!

I can do jap a bit

I would volunteer to translate the FAQ into Mandarin and Indonesian. Malay may be a bit of a problem but I don't see why I can't try. Well, I have to, at least, complete my examinations first. I'm quite competent with the other two. My grasp of Japanese isn't very good yet, so I won't want to try. D:

How's the translations coming about?

I think translating the FAQ is a wonderful idea. :] But what about the game? Would the text in the actual application need to be translated as well, for players ease? I guess it's pretty easy to find out what buttons do what by trial-and-error, though.

I'm actually surprised no one's offered to do German or French. Thought they would be more popular. I'm learning them but I don't know them well enough to do a translation.

Adding multi-language to the game is one of the long-term goals for Osu!, but it got out-voted by OpenGL and Storyboard editor. That doesn't mean it won't be in the game, it just won't be there until much later.

I could do a Tagalog [Filipino] Bisaya [Native filipino] Translation

Tagalog is hard. Thats why I don't bother translating. And IMO Taglish sucks.

I can translate the FAQ into german.

I sent italian translation to peppy yesterday, I hope he received it... I won't be here in the next 2 months

Well, I can do Portuguese (Brazilian one, it's slighlty different). Just need to know how and when.

I can do the french one.

OMG, the FAQs all changed with the new website! I'll wait for peppy to add other translations before translating the differences again

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Inozuma wrote: 1a426d

And by the way, can we edit images to translate them into another language (french in my case)

I think the good Doctor planned ahead for this, as most images have a number-based legend to make translating them easy. For the ones that have English words written on them, it's pretty easy to edit those images.

Ok, thanks for the reply.
I'm going to edit them in that way.

Have the german and spanish ones already been done? If not I could do them.

I could also do a catalan version.

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i can translate to portuguese!

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i know that i'm a n00b but i can translate the faq from english to italian

DarkPeppe wrote: 3w6t61

i know that i'm a n00b but i can translate the faq from english to italian

10 days old, but...

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

Please refer to this post if you are still interested and haven't yet gained access for your language.

What About translating it to Arabic? (FAQ)
And there is no Arabic Wiki

Can do Turkish.