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New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by Rieliesza
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Language Articles
Some authors who write their articles in their native (non-English) language may want to reach a wider audience by writing/translating some (or all) of their articles in other languages (mostly english). One could, of course, write a separate article for each language, but that would take a lot of organizational effort - and probably look rather unattractive when browsing the world. With a "language switch" a visitor could directly select the desired language, and would see the world (or only one article) in that language.
For writing an article, the author could select in which language he is currently making entries, and could switch back and forth between the languages.
The Team's Response
This was discussed on discord and it will be implemented by allowing the following: 1. Set language of an article 2. Allow articles to be associated as different language versions of the article Due to low support, it will have low priority
Current score
45/300 Votes · +5560 points
Votes Cast
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+200
by Kaleidechse
on 2021-04-23 18:09Having a proper way to link translated articles would be great - and a generic way to manage alternative versions would be even better! I can also imagine showing the same subject from different perspectives, e.g. the same war but colored by each faction's prejudices and propaganda. Or the same spaceship as seen by a) the civilization which built it and b) the pre-spacefaring culture that is utterly puzzled by it.
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+200
by Drake Ragon
on 2021-04-18 13:32 -
+20
by ViroValkyrie
on 2021-04-18 12:49 -
+200
by AvalonFaery
on 2021-04-18 02:46Both a language switch or a chronological switch would be insanely handy, and would allow subscriber groups to be used for something other than languages.
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+100
by CecilieMylius
on 2021-04-15 12:04 -
+200
by MrBoo
on 2021-04-14 12:31 -
+300
by Gigaclown
on 2021-04-14 09:08 -
+10
by FreeNERDman
on 2021-04-13 21:24 -
+100
by Diarioz
on 2021-04-13 16:36 -
+200
by Lomine
on 2021-04-13 10:40 -
+300
by Mandraw
on 2021-04-13 10:15The "time-sensitive versions" of articles idea is really, really good, I'm +1 it
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+100
by C0gito
on 2021-04-13 08:18 -
+100
by Tector
on 2021-04-13 04:46 -
+100
by A Goodhearted Mimic
on 2021-04-12 11:51I also like the "time-sensitive versions" of articles idea
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+100
by AmélieIS
on 2021-04-12 09:57I've also started doing translation of some articles and thought about suggesting that feature. I've made do with having two different articles linked together for now but that feature would hopefully look more elegant on the reader's end. Another thing is that it's currently impossible to do a translation of the world homepage and codex so having an option for the reader to quickly switch them to another language would be nice.
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+300
by DarkChronos
on 2021-04-12 06:08I really like the idea of Michael Chandra. "Honestly I can also imagine a more generic 'different versions' of an article/world, which also allows for time-sensitive versions (for example '812 CE' and '834 CE' versions, or a before/after significant event)" @Dimitris: If you do not want to integrate that idea in this vote, please let me know. I would open a new vote for that :-)
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+100
by RogueKnight24
on 2021-04-11 20:11 -
+50
by Czernobog
on 2021-04-11 11:02 -
+100
by Hertzbube
on 2021-04-11 09:53 -
+200
by PhillipBest
on 2021-04-11 02:37 -
+100
by Leakimka
on 2021-04-10 10:48 -
+300
by Siebenhayn
on 2021-04-09 17:33We as a Team of german Pen & Paper Developers would love to have the opportunity to switch the language to english, from our german base content!
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+50
by PBE
on 2021-04-09 17:06 -
+50
by Stampi
on 2021-04-09 13:49 -
+50
by amelianite
on 2021-04-09 13:41 -
+10
by soupscribbles
on 2021-04-09 13:15 -
+10
by Michael Chandra
on 2021-04-09 11:10Sounds quite useful yes, I know one person during WorldEmber did double-work displaying articles in 2 languages. (Honestly I can also imagine a more generic 'different versions' of an article/world, which also allows for time-sensitive versions (for example '812 CE' and '834 CE' versions, or a before/after significant event), as well. I can imagine having a 'book 1, book 2, book 3' versioning of articles would be real nice for writers and their accompanied world-bible.)
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+300
by Damparo
on 2021-04-09 08:10 -
+20
by Capri
on 2021-04-09 06:28 -
+50
by jkmcne
on 2021-04-09 05:44 -
+50
by ewelupp
on 2021-04-09 04:12 -
+50
by Adcheryl
on 2021-04-09 02:17 -
+20
by aidanbird
on 2021-04-08 23:49 -
+20
by Marian17
on 2021-04-08 23:13 -
+20
by brass_phoenix
on 2021-04-08 18:35 -
+20
by C.G Meehan
on 2021-04-08 16:46 -
+10
by Lyraine Alei
on 2021-04-08 16:39 -
+200
by FirethornDragon
on 2021-04-08 15:00 -
+300
by melior64
on 2021-04-08 14:10+1 for conlang usage (I can see some other unique ways to use this, too)
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+50
by Alishahr
on 2021-04-08 13:18Another potential use for this is for people who make conlangs and wish to write articles in their conlang.
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+300
by arty
on 2021-04-08 13:11 -
+100
by A Lambent Eye
on 2021-04-08 12:55 -
+50
by Oughterard87
on 2021-04-08 12:47 -
+100
by Blauzahnweh
on 2021-04-08 12:46 -
+50
by JohanWq
on 2021-04-08 10:26 -
+300
by Rieliesza
on 2021-04-08 09:58
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