Sword Art Online (Arabic)

[Shady Aziza]

Hi, I'd like to contribute in translating SAO into Arabic, but actually I don't know what steps should be taken, I have already registered an account at baka-tsuki.org, but what further should be done?
I'd like to know every detail on the whole translation project. And I'm sorry if the topic isn't supposed to be posted here, but I don't know where else should it be posted at.
Thanks in advance,
Shady Aziza.

[Nurin]

Hi.

I guess it should be posted on ALF but I approved it the same way.

Well, I guess for you to start a AL project you just have to go and get you translations done, make a page for the project(If you don't know how to create one, you can always copy and paste the english version on your language and translate it there )

To create a new page, go to the page of the project, edit it on the where says

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The Sword Art Online series is also available in the following languages:
*[[Sword_Art_Online_BE|Nederlands (Dutch)]]
*[[Sword_Art_Online_Bikol|Bikolano]]
*[[Sword_Art_Online ~Lithuanian~|Lietuvių (Lithuanian)]]
*[[Sword Art Online Hungarian Version|Magyar (Hungarian)]]

PS I shortened it.

thenbellow that Languages add

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[[Sword_Art_Online_yourlanguage|Your Language]]

then save and click your page, it will open a new blank page, then copy and paste the page you have done and save it.

Regards

if u don't understand tell me.

PS Copy and paste the english version at notepad and translate it there. then copy and paste on the blank page

[Shady Aziza]

Thank you very much for your help , I have add an Arabic Translation page now and I will be working on it soon, but also I'd like to be aware if there is any rules a translator must obey ?

[Nurin]

Well, I guess you just have to do your translations, and remember to put

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{{Warning:ATP}}

at the top of the page

and for the traslations rules, take a look here

[Shady Aziza]

Thank you but could you please tell me why is this code you provided is important, What its purpose?

[Nurin]

This means that your project is pending approval of a supervisor, you can take a look here for further information.

[Shady Aziza]

Ok, Thanks very much.

[Shady Aziza]

So now I started to edit my translation page, but I am facing two problems now.

First one is that Arabic Language should be written from right to left and I don't know where is the "Right to left text direction" tool in the text editor on the site, It will help a great deal in justifying Arabic words and making them easy to read. And I'm sorry because I never used this kind of editors before.

Second one is that how I make a linked word that when anyone click on it goes to its own page, like ( prologue - chapter 1 - chapter 2 -...) here: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index ... Art_Online

I have also an inquiry: Where the PDFs should be posted to those who need to download them.

[Nurin]

You mean to become like this? "Accel World

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[[Accel World|Accel World]]

Use the code above like this:

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*[[Sword Art Online:Volume 1 Prologue|Prologue]]

In your language will be something like this:

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*[[سوزوميا هاروهي-صور الجزء الأول|الصور المرفقة]]
taken from. Suzumia Haruhi Arabic and I think is the prologue

and regarding the other matter I don't know how to answer

sorry

[Rohan123]

To make linked words, use this method for links to pages that are on the B-T wiki themselves.

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[[The Link of Page|The word you want to be displayed]]

For example,

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[[User:Rohan123|Click here to go to Rohan's userpage]

will show something like
Click here to go to Rohan's userpage

Remember, this method will work for pages which exist on the wiki only.

[Shady Aziza]

Thank you both, but actually like Rohan said, this method works only for the existing pages so what about making a new page in order to contain the Arabic translation or I just put all the chapters in the one main page of the Arabic version ?

[Nurin]

just do it

it'll oppen the link's

once you get

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[[like this]]

will open a link to a new blank page, all you have to do is put { [[ ]] }

[Nurin]

Like I want to creat a new mayo chiki page to put the chapter 3 for example, I'll do this

Before:

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Chapter 3

after

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[[Mayo Chiki!:Volume1_Chapter3|Chapter 3:chapter title]]

[Rohan123]

Thank you both, but actually like Rohan said, this method works only for the existing pages so what about making a new page in order to contain the Arabic translation or I just put all the chapters in the one main page of the Arabic version ?

I didn't mean the page must previously exist, just enter whatever link you want, then open it and you will be able to edit it to create a new page.
What I meant by 'pages only existing on wiki' was that the [[xxx|zzz]] method can't be used to link to pages outside of BT wiki, for example google.

EDIT: Go here for more info on all this stuff - Wiki Formatting Guide

[Shady Aziza]

Yeah it is working, Thanks