gui/language_selection: Rephrase text about becoming a translator #8905
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I agree 'The Battle for Wesnoth' is the full title. I think 'decorated link' is fine, but I suppose translators accustomed to en_US may find the changed text easier to understand. |
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| # po: Beneath the label widget displaying this text there is a widget displaying | ||
| # po: a clickable link to <https://gettext.wesnoth.org/> (which opens in the user’s browser). | ||
| _ "<b>Note:</b> The translation percentages shown apply to the core game interface and in-game help only. More complete stats, including details for each campaign, are available at the following page." |
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IMO this should end in : as before.
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My feeling is that the two links should be consistent, so if one ends with a colon, they both ought to. OTOH, it looks like the other one needs reworking anyway.
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To me it's also mildly confusing to call the link a page. Maybe webpage would be a bit clearer though I'd use link as suggested below.
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Personally I think either work - it seems perfectly reasonable that someone sees "page", sees the link, and understands that "page" refers to the web page at that link.
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Sure, and I think you can replace page with lots of other words and people can figure it out as well. When I read page I needed the figure out step. In my case if the word link is used I don't need the figure out step. Might be different for other people of course.
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I've re-added the colons, but left it with "page".
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IMO "If you are a first-time player, we recommend using a mostly-complete translation." is something the player can best decide for themselves with the available info. For someone that is proficient in english for example they might not care if the translation is not so complete.
What information do we expect them to make that decision on? For example, adding "because campaign text may refer to units by unit type" would be a reason, although given the likely split between core and campaign translation, it might be a reason to choose the option with the lower percentage of core translated.
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I think the sentence is mostly just redundant. If a language they can read is listed, then they'll pick that one. If there are multiple listed, then they'll pick the one with the higher percentage completed. You don't need to tell people that explicitly. |
The link with details about individual compaigns is useful to players, even if they aren't looking to become translators. So move it upwards. The text about first-time players seemed confusing to me, as the choice is already limited to languages that the player can read. Reworded it, but after discussion in the PR, neither version was better than just removing it.
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Given the comments, I feel emboldened to cut half of the first paragraph too. "The Battle for Wesnoth relies on volunteers for development, including translation. Translations may drift behind or even become abandoned."
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The link with details about individual compaigns is useful to players, even if they aren't looking to become translators. So move it upwards.
The text about first-time players seemed confusing to me, as the choice is already limited to languages that the player can read. Rearrange it to say that people should be familiar with most of the campaigns before considering joining the translation teams.
The current text was added in #8792, and backported to 1.18 after 1.18.0, so this changes text which hasn't yet entered the .pot files. The first paragraph is unchanged - I'm wondering if it should start with "The".